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 [...]

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 [...]

Our Career Day on October 3 drew 122 middle school Crusaders to New England Institute of Technology. They learned all about what it’s like to work in medicine, engineering, landscape design, banking, toy design, and other interesting professions. Many thanks to all our speakers, who volunteered their own time on a Saturday morning to come [...]

A big crowd of 140 middle school Crusaders from Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Woonsocket came to New England Institute of Technology for Career Day on February 7. They learned about many interesting career fields, including fire safety engineering, brain research, nursing, software engineering, teaching, and law enforcement. They also heard an inspiring keynote presentation from [...]

On Saturday, December 6, we welcomed 128 middle school Crusaders to New England Institute of Technology, in Warwick, to hear career speakers from 10 different professions talk about what they do. The day started with a film clip from Pirates of the Caribbean! William Trezvant, special assistant district attorney for the state of Rhode Island, [...]