Noble Network Students Earn the Most Chicago Posse Scholarships
Noble Network students earned 12 of the 86 Chicago scholarships awarded by the Posse Foundation this year. Posse scholarships winners are selected through a very rigorous process including written applications and several interviews. The Posse Scholarship award is four years of full college tuition. More students from Noble campuses won Posse Scholarships this year than from private and selectiveenrollment schools. Rauner College Prep boasts 6 Posse Scholars, the most of any school in Chicago. Noble Street College Prep has four winners and Pritzker College Prep followed has two. Noble Network Posse scholars are attending schools including Oberlin College, Pomona College and Denison University. The Noble Network has an overall college matriculation rate of 89%.
Above: Five of Rauner College Prep Posse Scholars from left to right: Danielle Maldonado, Kierra Holmes, Jose Garcia, Priscilla Villanueva, and Melanie Ortiz.
Russian Ambassador Visits Noble
Russian Ambassador, The Honorable Sergey Kislyak, visited Noble Street College Prep on November 19, 2009, to learn about the Noble model and Noble Street College Prep's Russian program. Students at Noble Street College Prep and Pritzker College Prep are required to take Russian as their foreign language course. Many other campuses offer Russian as an elective course. Learning Russian helps to set Noble students apart on college applications and helps them develop an appreciation for and interest in the Russian language and culture. Russian uses a non-Roman orthography, which makes it more difficult for English speakers to learn. To date, over 800 students have taken Russian across the Noble Network.
Noble Street College Prep students Fabiola Pina and Nastasia Morales pose with the Russian Ambassador.
Noble Seniors Accepted to 4-Year Schools
Seniors at Noble Street College Prep, Pritzker College Prep and Rauner College Prep have been busy applying to colleges and universities over the past few months. Their hard work is paying off: over half of Noble Network seniors have already been accepted to 4-year schools! Click here to view a list of schools Noble students have historically attended.
Robotics Club Wins Top Honors
Rauner College Prep's Robotics team placed first at the Midwest Regional FIRST Tech Challenge at IIT December 12, 2009. The competition challenges teams of young people to solve a common problem in a six-week timeframe using a standard "kit of parts" and a common set of rules. Teams build robots from the parts and present the final project to a team of judges.
Above: Rauner Robotics Team proudly displays their work.