The cheerleaders performed at the start of the community circle as the Amani Public Charter School family celebrated the Scholars of the Month and the High Flyers. High Flyers get to go on trips for their accomplishments during the year they are good students. They have pizza parties and receive gifts from their teachers and...
Over the past few weeks, most Bellows Free Academy students and staff have become very familiar with PA system testing issues and lack of passing time bells making for an interesting assortment of sounds throughout the day. Another contributor has been the addition of alarms to all BFA doors, minus the connector. The Mercury spoke to...
Career day came into the spotlight at Amani Public Charter School students Jan. 29, as numerous employees and managers arrived in the building to talk about themselves and their jobs. A few Amani Universe reporters and student government members came together in the third floor conference room to meet Lindsey Davis from ABC News and...
“This team robot is one that would make anyone proud on the field that we’ve shown. They are on track for a bright future. Don’t lose your marbles, but the first place for the Innovate Award goes to team 6731, The Ringers, from St. Albans,” John Cohn (an American Engineer and Scientist who worked at IBM) at...
Three, two, one, go! Eighth grader Melissa Krainer will be traveling to Harrisburg, Pa. to compete in the state Mathcounts competition Saturday, March 19! Krainer placed third out of 33 competitors in the chapter competition three weeks ago. Mathcounts is for sixth, seventh and eighth graders interested in math. It is not for the faint...
In late January, eighth graders conversations were abuzz with questions: Are you ready or scared to go to high school? Did you pick out the classes you want to take? Did you get to take everything you wanted? At the end of each January, eighth grade students begin scheduling for ninth grade. This year, the...
The Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT, is now scheduled to take a turn to digital form by 2024. SATs have been around since 1926 and are used to determine what colleges students can get into. These tests are changing to online because they are said to be less stressful and more relevant to certain subjects....
Monthly donation drives get MacArthur students and staff into the spirit of charity. The Advancement Via Individual Determination, AVID, class has been coordinating monthly donation drives, encouraging charity among students and staff. Each month MacArthur students and staff donate different items, depending on what the donation for the month is. For the month of November,...
Over time, I have used both MacBooks and Chromebooks. Chromebooks are substantially less expensive and are thus more common at schools than MacBooks. It is important to compare them because the difference in quality between the two products could create a gap in educational access. This is apparent in their interface. For example, MacBooks give you...
For centuries, a Catholic education has often been viewed as a coveted symbol of faith and regard. Sacred Heart Academy strives to meet and excel past the standards of Catholic values, as well as the school mission statement, which explains the determination to “promote the growth of the whole person in a caring environment that...