Middle school Crusaders at our Central Falls CAAP site had a surprise visitor this past Saturday. Jon Baker, a reporter for the Pawtucket Times, came to meet them! He interviewed lots of Crusaders, and Times photographer Ernie Brown snapped about a million pictures. The story ran on the front page of the paper! You can [...]

Our Saturday Crusade Adventure & Academic Program, a.k.a. Saturday CAAP, is a fun and challenging 10-week adventure education course that is a rite of passage for every middle school Crusader. CAAP is off to a flying start at Roger Williams Middle School, in Providence, and Veteran’s Memorial Elementary School, in Central Falls. We are excited [...]

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 [...]

Saturday, October 4, was the launch of our fall programs this year, and hundreds of Crusaders showed up to take off with us! CAAP (Crusade Adventure and Academic Program) got underway at two sites, Roger Williams Middle School in Providence and Ralph J. Holden Community Center in Central Falls. Meanwhile, a group of middle school [...]

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!