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…
Category: Events
Talent Show @RCSAI
At RCSAI we celebrate exploration of the arts as well as science and technology. Students created an amazing show to debut their many talents at this year’s school-wide Talent Show. Performances included ballet, pianists, stepping, singing, a sword balancing dance and original songs. The teachers even got in on the action with a surprise performance….
STEM Night
RCSA Elementary sponsored a Family STEM Night on Thursday evening where families could work together using their problem-solving skills. There were activities for the entire family, including reverse engineering, creating mechanical hands, building towers, and an amazing science presentation by our Science Coach, Mr. Ombasi. Thank you to all of our families and staff that…
Read Across America
Students had a blast this week celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday and Read Across America with reading, STEM and art projects, and crafting!
JEA @ RCSA
Mike Brost (Vice President/General Manager of Electric Systems) and Edgar Gutierrez, (Manager of Customer Solutions) from JEA were guest speakers in Engineering classes. Topics presented included the JEA gas turbine and solar plants (design, construction and operation). They also shared information regarding potential summer internships for our RCSA students.
1st Place! Science Olympiad Team
Congratulations to our Science Olympiad Team for ranking first in the North Florida Regional Competition. They received 8 gold, 4 silver, and 5 bronze medals out of 23 different events. Students worked really hard with their event coaches after school and on the weekends. It’s obvious that this success is not by chance, they deserved…
3D-Printing Presentation
On Friday, February 24th, the RCSA Introduction to Engineering students attended a 3D-Printing Presentation and Lab, with Dr. N. Eastham from University of North Florida. Dr. Eastham shared numerous examples of single and multi-component 3D products and two types of 3D printers. Students were shown how to design items to print in 3D, using free online software. Students that…
Black History Month at RCSA HS/MS
RCSA Middle High School celebrated Black History Month through an assembly on Tuesday, February 17, 2017 in the RCSA Arena. Here at RCSA, we pride ourselves in how diverse we are. Although Black History historically is based on the achievements of African Americans in US History, the students presented their musical talents in song, dance,…
Capt. Wanamaker
On Friday, February 24th RCSA Middle High School hosted Capt. Howard Wanamaker for an assembly for our 10th and 11th graders. He gave a speech to our students about Leadership and Respect and also mentioned about one of the best seller books about leadership and advised everybody to read that book; Lincoln on Leadership by…
Nerd Alert!
As February comes to an end, our students show off their science pride. Thank you for supporting our Science Olympiad Team and participating in this event. Smart never looked so good!
Visit From the City Council
City Council Vice President John Crescimbeni and his assistant, Nikki Evans, had a great tour of RCSA Elementary on Wednesday, March 22nd. The tour was led by a few of our safety patrols: Lilly Snyder, Luke Campbell, and Paige Adair, who did an excellent job of representing RCSA and informing the visitors about our school….
Parent Breakfasts!
One of the traditions at RCSA M/H: Parent Breakfasts!!! RCSA M/H hosted its annual parent breakfast this year again for our high school and middle school parents. We at River City Science Academy believe in the importance of the role of the parents in our students’ education and we are very happy that our parents…
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