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A Crusader snags the Gates Millennium Scholarship again
By Destini Clark | May 25, 2016Jana Goodwin, the Class of 2016 president, is one of the recipients of the Gates Millennium Scholarship.
Jana Goodwin, the Class of 2016 president, is one of the recipients of the Gates Millennium Scholarship.
Being accepted to college is a great feeling especially if you get accepted to your dream college.
Unstoppable and extraordinary are a couple of words that can be used to describe Samantha Turner. From being Treasurer of the National Honors Society to being accepted into the Michigan State University Osteopathic Medicine Scholars Program, Turner would definitely qualify as an extraordinary person.
English 12, pre-calculus, NJROTC, and art are all typical senior classes, but can you imagine taking a nursing class that includes working with patients on top of those classes?
Cass Tech’s Javon Jones is not your typical dancer. He grew up in an athletic family, playing lacrosse, basketball and soccer for hours daily.
A 34 composite on the ACT and full ride to Harvard, three Gates Millennium finalist, 12 Scholastic Art awards and a major in Medical Illustration and $925,000 in scholarships have been awarded to Cass Tech’s Senior Scholars. Detroit Public Schools was established in 1842, now in 2016 DPS isn’t nearly the system it was years ago.
As the class of 2016 seniors, we are thrilled to have been given a plethora of opportunities to become successful through Detroit Public Schools. Being a part of DPS since elementary school has given us the opportunity to see growth and changes that have both positively and negatively affects students DPS lose some of the best programs that we feel have shaped us as the students we are today. Teachers and administrators who show hard work and dedication like dance teacher Lisa Reynolds, who won Michigan’s Teacher of the Year, Natalie Barmore, who was named DPS high school Art Teacher of the Year, and counselor Sylvia Sanders, who won Counselor of the Year, are both from Cass Tech.
After rumors that graduation would be postponed and seniors would be required to serve extra days due to their low attendance rate, seniors at Renaissance came together to resolve this. Seniors typically plan a skip day to celebrate how far they’ve come, but this year some seniors decided to speak against it, going against the popular decision in favor of logic. “Why is there a skip day if no one comes to school in the first place,” asked senior Krishauna Fisher.
On April 5, Michigan Office Solutions and the Detroit Red Wings presented high school journalism students with a challenge: Write two 500 word essays in the hopes of winning grants ranging from $1,500 to $5,000 for their school’s journalism program.
The 67th annual Military Ball was held on May 6 at Burton Manor. The night was filled with spectacular awards, dining and dancing for both JROTC cadets and their escorts.
Inside Out, a program hosted in several schools throughout Detroit to meet the demand of exposing students to poetry, began in 1995.
Is a summer job the way to start a three-month summer vacation? Maybe students will be interested in summer programs that match their interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields in Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Summer programs have been proven to mitigate learning loss and produce achievement gains in the summer and leading up to the upcoming school year.
On April 8-10, Douglass senior Rashad Littleton competed in SkillsUSA Michigan State competition at the Amway Grand Hotel in Grand Rapids.
Michigan State University's Diversity Services sponsored a chartered bus for Cass Tech juniors and seniors to visit and tour the MSU Law School and School of Communications in East Lansing on Feb.
Nancy Costello, the director of Michigan State University’s First Amendment Law Clinic, reached out to CT Visionary in December 2015 to give current MSU law students the opportunity to teach First Amendment workshops at Cass Tech.
Students and teachers in the Detroit Public School system have been operating under dangerous, unhealthy conditions for years.
Social workers are provided at high schools to guide students to a successful life. Terri Colbert is one of the social workers at Martin Luther King Jr.
Following the sick-out and teacher-organized protests that occurred in late January, the Renaissance community was shocked to learn that one of their teachers, Math instructor Zachary Sweet, was targeted by an injunction to appear in court leveled by the Detroit Public School district. “When I received the notice of the injunction, I was confused as to why there was no official reason given for it,” Sweet said.
Renaissance students stood in agreement with their teachers on Jan. 25 as they protested the poor quality materials, learning environment conditions and lack of funding in Detroit Public Schools. DPS teachers have held protests throughout the school year demanding that they receive better working conditions, as well as better pay and health care benefits.
Loyola High School has a house system something like the ones in Harry Potter. The house system was started in 2012. According to Loyola High School: “This house system was created to instill a sense of competition amongst the students.
