Over 160 Crusaders gathered at Johnson & Wales Harborside Campus this weekend for the first Saturday Cru Club day of the year! We welcomed a packed classroom of new 6th grade Crusaders to our Ways to A’s study skills program. Other classrooms of middle school Crusaders got involved with language arts games, advisory activities, and a STEM workshop on DNA expertly taught by Kim Pond, a science educator from the University of Rhode Island. Meanwhile, two groups of 9th grade Crusaders began our two-session workshop Passageways, which is designed to help students learn how to “survive and thrive” in high school. And that was just the morning! Career speakers, a class in financial literacy, and a presentation by Unspecified, our high school robotics team, rounded out the afternoon.

Check out these photos from our DNA workshop to see how Crusaders assembled the building blocks of deoxyribonucleic acid to create the double helix of genetic identity: