Graduating this year from: Blackstone Academy. Favorite subject: Math. “There are so many ways to solve a problem. You can come at it from more than one angle and solve the puzzle your own way.” Currently taking: Precalculus. Senior project: In collaboration with friends, starting a hip-hop record label called Forever Legend. His part in [...]

Graduating this year from: Central Falls High School. Favorite subject: Science, especially biology and anatomy. “I want to be a doctor.” A recent treat: Visiting Miriam Hospital to watch open-heart surgery. “We were up above and could see right down into what they were doing.” Also enjoyed: We the People, a special class at her [...]

Graduating this year from: Blackstone Academy. Favorite subject: Science. “I like to make things.” Last thing she made: A Rube Goldberg contraption for feeding goldfish. Senior project: Cross-cultural study of special-needs education, based on research she did at an orphanage in Jaipur, India. Recent accomplishment: Traveling to India on her own as a volunteer with [...]

Graduating this year from: Willam M. Davies Jr. Career Technical High School. Favorite subject: She’s in the Cosmotology & Barbering program. “When I was younger, my mom worked a lot and my dad had to do my hair, so I learned pretty fast how to do it myself.” Senior project: She ran her own clinic [...]

Graduating this year from: Blackstone Academy. Favorite subject: Math and science, chemistry in particular. “It’s so interesting how two chemicals can react to form another substance that is different from both of them.” Senior project: Researching how to help U.S. students improve their scientific literacy and assistant teaching a 9th-grade biology class. Recent accomplishment: Getting [...]

Graduating this year from: Blackstone Academy. Favorite subject: History, especially Greek and Roman civilization. “I like learning about the past and people’s heritage and culture.” Senior project: Collaborating with friends to establish a music label called Forever Legend. His responsibility: The creative end. Mix tapes, logo, web site. Recent accomplishment: A research paper on how [...]

Our creative and energetic high school Crusaders have outdone themselves this year with a huge variety of service-learning  projects on behalf of their communities. They are getting their entire schools involved with benefit events, collection drives, and teen awareness activities. Here is a quick summary of what’s going on: Central High School A basketball tournament [...]

On April 22, a busload of middle school Crusaders explored the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus under the guidance of P.I.N.K. Women, a student leadership organization. The mission of P.I.N.K. (“Powerful Independent Notoriously Knowledgeable”) is to educate URI and the surrounding community about issues that pertain to multicultural and ethnic female groups. PINK took [...]

At Saturday Cru Club on May 1, a classroom of high school Crusaders welcomed Jeff Gardner, senior quality engineer for Amgen, as their guest career speaker. Jeff described how new drugs are developed for the pharmaceutical market and how his work as a statistician fits into the overall process at Amgen. He also shared the [...]

Sixty high-school Crusaders who attended our Getting to College Conference on April 23 enjoyed a surprise lunchtime visit from guest speaker Todd Flaherty, president & CEO of The College Crusade. In his talk, Todd shared advice about how to maintain the proper mindset and encouraged each student to finish junior year with strong grades and [...]