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 [...]

Dozens of high school Crusaders learned valuable hands-on leadership skills at our 2011 Crusade Summer Experience program in August. Advisor Dwayne Clement grabbed this photo of some of them on the URI campus before they launched into their next team-building exercise. Each week of CSE featured a host of interactive challenges, public speaking practice, scavenger [...]

A million thanks to 60 University of Rhode Island students who took our visiting crew of middle school Crusaders under their wings for URI Shadow Day on February 23. Crusaders observed classes, toured campus, and got an up-close and personal view of what it’s like to be a URI student. Rich Norris, our Advisor at [...]

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, [...]

We are thrilled to announce that Isamar Morales, a Crusader graduating from Hope High School this spring, received the prestigious Fibertech/Tech Collective Scholarship for 2010! Isamar was honored at the Tech Collective’s annual Tech Laureates Night, held at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet on June 3. Curtis Fox, regional sales manager for Fibertech Networks, congratulated Isamar [...]

“I believe that Peace and Respect must first exist within myself and it is then my personal responsibility to help create a school and community safe from abuse and oppression.” (The Peace Pledge) This spring a team of Crusaders from Feinstein High School and Jorge Alvarez High School joined together to lead workshops on nonviolence. [...]

On April 22, a busload of middle school Crusaders explored the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus under the guidance of P.I.N.K. Women, a student leadership organization. The mission of P.I.N.K. (“Powerful Independent Notoriously Knowledgeable”) is to educate URI and the surrounding community about issues that pertain to multicultural and ethnic female groups. PINK took [...]

Four Crusade Advisors will attend the Children, Youth and Families At Risk (CYFAR) 2010 Conference in San Francisco this spring! Jenniffer Rivera, Javier Cabrera, Kristina Moyet, and Mayamu Kamara have been hosting afterschool science workshops for Crusaders all year in four Providence middle schools in partnership with a CYFAR grant project at the University of [...]

Are you the parent of a Crusader? Come to our 2010 family engagement workshops and get expert advice about how to support your school-aged child. Through a special grant project, we are partnering with child and family experts from the University of Rhode Island to offer you a great learning experience. Our instructor is Marilyn [...]