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At Saturday Cru Club on May 1, a classroom of high school Crusaders welcomed Jeff Gardner, senior quality engineer for Amgen, as their guest career speaker. Jeff described how new drugs are developed for the pharmaceutical market and how his work as a statistician fits into the overall process at Amgen. He also shared the [...]

Congratulations to Crusader Christian Durango from Times2 Academy! He was featured in a news story published in the Providence Journal this morning about the Rhode Island Science and Engineering Fair held at CCRI Warwick this past weekend. ProJo Reporter Linda Borg interviewed Christian about his project, which studied the relationship between economic status and healthy eating habits. Winners of the [...]

Crusaders from three Providence middle schools are reaching for the stars – literally! Since September, 50 seventh graders have been attending our afterschool science workshops in astronomy, held in partnership with URI’s Pathways for Success in Science and Technology program. They researched the solar system, modeled clay planets, worked with astrophotography from Harvard University’s Chandra [...]

Why are there two bodies in the basement? Do the clues show what happened? Two dozen middle school Crusaders learned the science of forensics at Wheeler Summer Camp this month and tried to solve the mystery! Instructor Bob Schmidt of Wheeler taught them how to observe at a crime scene, how to collect clues, and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Middle School Crusade Advisory Board members Melissa Roberts and Santiago Nino chose the topic of obesity as a focus for their community service project this year at Esek Hopkins Middle School. They did research online and produced a pamphlet on what causes obesity and how to prevent it. Their publication, called “Obesity in America and [...]

On Saturday, May 17, a group of lucky Cru Club participants learned about watersheds, green development, and the invasive Asian shore crab at the Save the Bay Center at Fields Point in Providence. Three talented AmeriCorps volunteers from Save the Bay’s education department guided participating Crusaders through fascinating hands-on workshops with live bay creatures and [...]