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 [...]

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 [...]

The College Crusade has a high school robotics team this year! Crusaders Ayl Akinrimisi, Caroline Akiode, Oluwadamilola Animashaun, Alexis Cabrera, Miguel Casillas, Elijah Farias, Joely Garcia, Thony Greene, Shanty Pineda, and Michael Rodriquez have been meeting weekly since October to build a robot for the 2011 FIRST Tech Challenge, a robotics competition hosted by New [...]

“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) During July, over 90 high school Crusaders spent a [...]

Our 2010 Crusade Adventure & Academic Program, which started in mid-July, is winding up this week! Over 100 middle school Crusaders participated in summer CAAP this year. Each group of students met at Roger Williams Middle School in Providence for 10 jam-packed days of team building, life skills, conflict resolution exercises, and leadership activities. They [...]

Our Crusade Adventure & Academic Program for middle school is winding up this week. What a terrific time CAAP Crusaders had this summer! Their home base was Roger Williams Middle School in Providence, where they started off each day with reading and discussion of Monster, an award-winning novel by Walter Dean Myers. After lunch they [...]

Our annual Crusade Summer Experience program for high school students is in full swing at Brown University! Yesterday we caught up with a group of 26 Crusaders participating in a day focused on culture and diversity. In warm-up exercises, they shared their cultural experiences and backgrounds and learned how to avoid stereotyping others. Then they [...]

Using maps with secret locations marked and riddles to solve, teams of middle school Crusaders participating in CAAP (Crusade Adventure & Academic Program) explored the Brown University campus this summer. A popular checkpoint was the impressive Brown Bear monument on the main quadrangle, where these Crusaders posed for a photo!