CRISTO REY
Girls Make Change
By Jennifer Gonzalez-Hernandez | May 25, 2016Sitting in a circle, one by one, girls shared why the topic of interpersonal violence hit close to home.
Sitting in a circle, one by one, girls shared why the topic of interpersonal violence hit close to home.
ByThis year at Loyola High School, students took part in a program called Project Unify. Project Unify is a program aimed at including all students in non-exclusionary events.
For many years, teenagers, especially those from the African American community, are stereotyped as one of the most dangerous attributes of this generation today.
The Detroit Douglass JROTC program has had to start over mid year, replacing two long-term instructors with a new one. Sgt.
Despite the cold rainy weather on May 14, hundreds of volunteers and students from eight Detroit and Dearborn high schools came to the Detroit Institute of Technology to support the 12th National Network for Arab American Communities Service Day. Volunteers planted trees, boarded up abandoned houses, picked up trash on the streets, painted recycling bins and tire gardens, built a butterfly garden, and added plants to the community garden.
Senior Haider Almaleki thinks JAG is class that makes sense for life. “We learn about opportunities that are available and how to take advantage of them,” Almaleki said.
On May 18, The Detroit Chapter of the Links Inc. took time out of their busy schedules to meet with the ladies of Detroit International Academy 10th grade students to discuss the importance of self-control and the best way of handling conflicts. During this session, students were taught the “I message” method, where you are encouraged to explain to your adversary, or friend, how they made your feel.
The entire Cody campus gathered in the gym on May 13 for Decision Day, a ceremony honoring seniors as they announced their plans for college. Those plans changed from some seniors after March 22 when Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced the Detroit Promise, a program that gives Detroit graduates the opportunity to go to a local community college tuition-free.
After 13 hours and a long bus ride, members from the Renaissance Varsity Chorus arrived at Morgan State University for the first stop of their annual college tour. “This is the first year in four years that we were able to go on tour and I’m really excited by the way it turned out,” said choral music instructor, Patrice DeBose.
After a 17-hour plan ride, nine Cass Tech students arrived in Japan with former Japanese teacher Renee Packzowski and foreign language department administrator Lori Singleton. The trip was about $5,000 including plane tickets, hotel stays, food, entertainment and transportation.
It’s almost end of the school year and eighth graders are are soon about to graduate and take a harder step into their education life: High school. Not all middle schoolers are ready to go to high school, maybe because they are a bit nervous about it, or they are just dreading an extra four years of school.
East English Village students Nicholas Huey and Khariane Gray will be traveling to to Italy this summer. Huey and Gray were only students in Detroit to be finalists of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA’s essay contest, a program open to 11th grade students in New York City, Los Angeles and Detroit.
Loyola High School has done it again. One hundred percent of Loyola High School seniors have been accepted into a college of their choice. It has been a long rough four years for these 28 seniors.
When Douglass seniors gathered in March for the annual pinning ceremony, Chase Davis had a dilemma. Traditionally, parents of Douglass students will stand and pin their child during the ceremony.
In October 2014, Detroit International Academy Spanish teacher Olivia Scheidler and English teacher Lisa Brooks started DIA’s poetry club.
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.
The celebration of National Dance Week was April 22 through May 1, 2016. East English Village dance teacher Rosalind Leath, who is also the Michigan Delegate for National Dance Week hosted a Dance Awareness Zumba class for staff, parents, students and the community on April 28. “The purpose of Dance Awareness week is to expose and introduce as many people as possible to the enjoyment and benefits of dance through the promotion of dance in schools,” Leath said. Zumba is a Latin-inspired cardio dance workout that uses music and choreographed steps to form a fitness party atmosphere.
Junior Aniya Roundtree talked about the Cody neighborhood earlier this month on a panel during The Detroit GradNation Community Summit of 2016 at Wayne State University. “Our neighborhoods are bad.
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?
