Here’s a crew of budding scientists from Nathanael Greene and Roger Williams middle schools in Providence! They got involved in a Crusade program last fall called Pathways for Success in Science and Technology. The afterschool program, delivered in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island, is designed to help Crusaders see how science plays a [...]

Crusaders at Mount Pleasant High School received a flock of academic accolades for fall 2011. Here are the honorees! Above, from left to right: Etebom Samuel, Stephen Pena, Alvaro Morales, Joana Delva, Alliyah Phin, Jeffery Avila, and Julia Franco. At left: Alondra Berrios. Below, from left to right: Jasmin Urquilla, Ariel Wilkerson, Chavelin Romero, Adadeyo [...]

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 [...]

Thirty-one middle school Crusaders had a memorable experience at Wheeler Summer Camp in July. They were enthusiastic participants in an exciting mix of academic and interactive challenges at Wheeler School in Providence and Wheeler Farm in Seekonk. A highlight of activities at the Farm is shelter building, where Crusaders work in teams to design and [...]

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. [...]

Summer is here, so that means our Ways to A’s program for 2011 is underway! Hundreds of sixth graders are preparing to become new Crusaders in the fall. Guided by our great staff of Ways to A’s instructors, these students are sharpening up their study skills so they’ll be ready to make the big leap [...]

Here are our reading lists for 7th and 8th grade Crusaders this summer. You may read any book you would like, as long as it is a chapter book, age appropriate, and one that you have not read before. Remember these books are only a suggestion. We look forward to reading your book reports! For [...]

How can you tell the difference between a solution and a suspension? Why is resistance important in an electrical circuit? Dozens of Crusaders in grades 6 and 7 participated in an Honors Science & Engineering Camp last week during school vacation. They traveled to the East Bay Educational Collaborative, in Warren, for hands-on courses in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]