You could feel the anticipation building inside RCSA Innovation Aug. 21. Teachers, students and even members of the media buzzed excitedly between classrooms. Standing in the halls you could hear one word over and over: eclipse. The eclipse presented a unique learning opportunity for the school and teachers took full advantage. While many schools closed…
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Science Olympiad!
Congratulations to our Science Olympiad Team who competed this weekend in Orlando against 70 teams from all over Florida. Our team brought home a 4th place trophy for being one of the best teams overall. Congratulations to Elif Tozoglu, Rahma Mohamed, Emily Marlow, Daniel Schott, Jason Fearon, Andy Lin, Ahmed Idris, and Jake Farmer who brought…
International Day!
RCSA Middle/High School celebrated its diversity with the International Festival on Saturday, April 8th in the RCSA Arena. Our teachers prepared culture display boards with their homeroom classes for 50 different countries and Spanish and Turkish club students and teachers prepared amazing folk dances and music performances. Students, parents, and our guests had a chance…
STEM Expo Coming Soon!
The STEM & Health Expo is Florida’s alternative to the typical County Science & Health Fair. It allows the students to get a chance to showcase their science work in a fun and unique venue, with learning opportunities for the entire family. This free, one-day event features exciting science shows, STEM educators & scientists, hands-on…
Pasta for Pennies Party
Kindergarten students from Mrs. Puckett’s class and a few of the top school earners got to enjoy a spaghetti lunch from Olive Garden thanks to their donations to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Elementary’s Science Olympiad
Bridge building, plentiful plants, mystery packaging, oh my! Last weekend was a big one for RCSA Elementary’s Science Olympiad Team. These remarkable students showed their STEM skills and placed 3rd overall, with the below students placing in individual events as well. Jason Fearon & Daniel Schott: 1st Place – Water Rockets Rahma Mohamed & Emily…
MathCounts!
Another success from RCSA MS&HS; Our Math Olympiad Team participated in MATHCOUNTS Northeast Florida Chapter Competition which was held at UNF campus. There were 58 schools and more than 200 students in total and one of our 7th grade students (Matthew Alexander Richards-Martin) received 3rd place in one of the rounds. Congratulations to the team…
Elementary Open House
With new Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade classes opening for the 2017-2018 school year, RCSA Elementary held an Open House for new applicants on Saturday, March 11th from 1:00-3:00 PM. Families were able to get information about the structure of RCSAES, curriculum, technology resources, and grade level material from the teachers. They were also given…
Medieval Fair field trip
The Medieval Fair field trip in Gainesville consisted of my British Literature Students, Mrs. Ferrari’s Ap Lang students and Mr. Payne’s Dual Enrollment students. We spent the day getting faces painted, watching jousting, and eating tons of amazing food. For most of our students this was their first experience at a medieval fair and everyone…
RocketCON!
Rocket Con was an amazing event put on by the PTO and Theater club for RCSA MS/HS!
JU visits RCSA engineering students!
Several RCSA Intro to Engineering students visited the Jacksonville University Engineering Department on March 9th. Department Head, Dr. Huihui Wang and Dr. Emre Selvi were our JU hosts for the visit. Students toured the campus, visited engineering labs, and attended design project presentations by JU engineering students. On March 14th, Dr. Wang and Dr. Selvi…
Middle School Literature Share!
Some very familiar faces stopped by on Thursday and visited classrooms where they shared stories written by…themselves. RCSA 6th Grade students have been working on writing literature, and our students were lucky enough to be the audience to the reading of some of these amazing stories. Much appreciation to the middle school students and teachers…
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