Here’s a crew of budding scientists from Nathanael Greene and Roger Williams middle schools in Providence! They got involved in a Crusade program last fall called Pathways for Success in Science and Technology. The afterschool program, delivered in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island, is designed to help Crusaders see how science plays a [...]

Over 160 Crusaders gathered at Johnson & Wales Harborside Campus this weekend for the first Saturday Cru Club day of the year! We welcomed a packed classroom of new 6th grade Crusaders to our Ways to A’s study skills program. Other classrooms of middle school Crusaders got involved with language arts games, advisory activities, and [...]

How can you tell the difference between a solution and a suspension? Why is resistance important in an electrical circuit? Dozens of Crusaders in grades 6 and 7 participated in an Honors Science & Engineering Camp last week during school vacation. They traveled to the East Bay Educational Collaborative, in Warren, for hands-on courses in [...]

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 [...]

Seventh-grade Crusaders at Roger Williams Middle School and Nathanael Greene Middle School got to see the universe up close in their afterschool science workshops this fall. They met weekly with instructors from the University of Rhode Island to discover the science of astronomy. They explored how telescopes work, learned how to download digital space photography, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]