High school Crusaders participating in our weeklong Choices program at Brown University had a treat on Friday – a visiting panel of six Crusade alumni dropped in to talk about important choices they have made. Recent alums Chris Calderon ’10, Yvonne Snead ’10, and Edgar Meza-Lopez ’11 offered their perspectives on what worked for them [...]

Led by veteran high school English teacher Demian Yattaw, dozens of Crusaders are taking on the writing challenge in our Media Literacy Writing Program this month. In two-week sessions, they meet in the Learning Center at our headquarters in Providence every morning to analyze, discuss, and write about the influence of media in our lives. [...]

Lenny Chroek Attends: Woonsocket High School. Grad year: 2012. Favorite subject: History. “I like to look back and see what people do to make things happen. I want to create history and leave my mark.” Recent accomplishments: Teaching hip-hop classes to kids. Running the high school’s Mr. Villa Novan pageant event for the third year [...]

The 1000 Hour Club honors Crusaders who have high levels of participation in our programs since sixth grade. We announce a new 1000 Hour Club each year to recognize Crusaders who have shown remarkable dedication to preparing themselves for higher education. Four of our graduating seniors whizzed across the 1000-hour mark this year. You can [...]

Here’s a huge congratulations to our graduating seniors, who have been accepted to these colleges and universities for fall 2011! American International College Bay Path College Bay State College Becker College Bentley College Boston University Bristol Community College Bryant University Butler Community College Community College of Rhode Island Curry College Drexel University Embry Riddle University [...]

Congratulations to 68 high school Crusaders in grades 9-12 who participated in our Choices program at Brown University during February school vacation week. They spent two full days exploring their ideas about themselves and making the connection between education and good careers. Each student then concluded his or her journey by creating “My Plan to [...]

For high school Crusaders, winter school vacation means our Choices program! A group of 9th and 10th graders are spending today and tomorrow on the campus of Brown University, working through a curriculum of interactive exercises that help them see how the choices they make now will affect their lives in the future. This morning’s [...]

Team Unspecified, the Crusade’s first ever high school robotics team, placed 9th out of 28 in the First Tech Challenge, held at New England Institute of Technology on February 5. This year’s challenge was called Get Over It! Teams had to design their robot to travel up and down inclines, balance on seesaws, and score [...]

Pilot David Nigri, director of aviation for Textron Inc., came to Saturday Cru Club at Johnson & Wales University on February 5 to talk with Crusaders about his career and to share his passion about being a pilot. As a graduate of Central High School in Providence, David always knew he wanted to have a [...]

After months of hard work on the design of Sticky the robot, our high school robotics team is ready to go to the mat at the statewide FIRST Tech Challenge on Saturday, February 5. Team Unspecified has done very well in scrimmages and is excited to take on the rest of the field. The big [...]