Graduating this year from: Central High School. Plans to attend: Rhode Island College. Wants to study: Education. Favorite subject: “I love English. I love to read books and to write poetry and essays.” Recently wrote a response to The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy. Highly recommends: A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini.  [...]

Providence middle school Advisors Mayamu Kamara and Kevin Montoya will attend the annual Children, Youth & Families at Risk Conference in Baltimore next week, July 19-21. Mayamu (Perry Middle School) and Kevin (Nathanael Greene Middle School) have been hosting afterschool science workshops for Crusaders this year in partnership with a CYFAR grant project at the [...]

Graduating this year from: Central High School. Plans to attend: University of Rhode Island. Wants to study: Marketing and sales. Favorite subject: English, especially writing persuasive essays. Recent essay on: “Layers of Evil” in Shakespeare’s Othello. Will start in June: URI’s Talent Development program. Latest accomplishment: Performed his poetry in an adult slam competition at [...]

Congratulations to the recipients of our 2008 Crusader Recognition Awards for excellence in academics, school attendance, and Crusade program participation during the 2007-2008 school year! Crusaders recognized for excellence in academics achieved a GPA of 85 or more for all four quarters last year. Other winners achieved perfect attendance in school or made the top [...]

Graciphy Castro’s office is a busy place. As the College Crusade Advisor at Jorge Alvarez High School in Providence, Graciphy spends her time encouraging and counseling high school students who are making college decisions. Here she is working with Crusaders Roxanne Hines and Abigail Hiralien, demonstrating how to search for and compare colleges using www.CollegeBoard.com. [...]

Our High School Crusade Advisory Board meets monthly to discuss important issues for Crusaders, to plan projects, and to have some fun together. Here are HS CAB board members for the 2008-2009 school year:   Hannah Alegbeleye, Woonsocket High School; Alma Alvarez, The MET School; Jonathan Aponte, Woonsocket High School; Memorie Burton, Textron Chamber of [...]

Crusaders at Perry Middle School in Providence learned how to read food labels in their science workshop today. They talked about the food pyramid with URI instructors Kim Pond and Beth McArdle and then ran relay races to build nutritious meals. TV reporter Kelley McGee from Channel 10 visited their class and did a story about [...]

Welcome to the members of our Middle School Crusade Advisory Board for 2008-2009! They represent the College Crusade in their schools and meet monthly to work together on fun and interesting projects. MS CAB members are: Ayokunle Akinrimisi, Nathanael Greene Middle School; David Archila, Samuel W. Bridgham Middle School; Raven Cannon, Governor DelSesto Middle School; Sandra [...]

Middle school Crusaders are going to special science classes after school. They learn about recycling, animal life, nutrition, and many other topics, plus they do experiments and GPS mapping. Students from URI’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences are teaching the classes! Sixth-graders at Oliver Hazard Perry Middle School, Roger William Middle School, and [...]

Crusaders, have you met your College Crusade Advisor yet? Be sure to get to know your Advisor soon. Whether you need motivation to do better in school, advice about choosing the right classes, or someone to help you with a problem, your Advisor is there for you. We have a great group of Advisors this [...]