Service Academy Nominations
January 18, 2019
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This year Phoenix Military Academy had the biggest class of nominations, which helps students get one step closer towards their goal of getting into service academies. Seniors Destiny Ortega, Jazzlyn Gavina, Kenny Wilkerson and Stoykof Nunez were selected to receive nominations from their congress...
Class of 2024 Chicago Scholars Applications Now Open
January 18, 2019
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“We uniquely select, train, and mentor academically ambitious students from under-resourced communities to complete college and become the next generation of leaders who will transform their neighborhoods and our city”- Chicago Scholars. Chicago scholars, a seven year program conta...
J.A Paves the Way
January 11, 2019
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Making the transition from elementary school to middle school is a huge step for most students. Overall, these young adolescents anticipate this transition with a mixture of excitement, hesitation, and in some cases anxiety.Junior Achievement helps inform and kill some of the doubts of the next level...
Dreams Becoming a Reality
January 11, 2019
Every year a vast majority of students get thousands of dollars to attend college the following year. The school counselors work very closely with the seniors as college application and scholarship deadlines approach. They have helped with financial form situations, sending transcripts and finding...
Ideas Day
January 8, 2019
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Chicago Ideas Week came to light up the bulbs of many students at PMA. All previous ambassadors from CIW got together to plan out this event that took place Nov. 20th, 2018. Gilberto Ortiz was in charge of interviewing the guest speaker, Cristian Duarte was in charge of giving instructions, Jennifer S...
ACE Mentor Program
December 20, 2018
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The ACE (Architecture. Construction. Engineering.) Mentor Program is an afterschool program that allows students to explore careers that revolve around architecture, construction management, and engineering. It doesn’t take much to apply since you only need to be a dedicated student past freshman year with...
You Are What You Eat
December 20, 2018
When it comes to sports you want to do nothing but perform at your very best. This means training hard, going to practice everyday, and dieting. Dieting is something not many people do, especially the PMA sports teams, but wrestling has taken it to a whole new level. “I diet so I can make a particular weight ...
Questbridge Recipient: Efrain Colunga
December 18, 2018
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The Questbridge National College Match is a college and scholarship application process to help academically high achieving high school seniors be able to get a full four-year scholarship to the nation’s most selective colleges. Senior Efrain Colunga is one of the students granted admission to Emory Un...
On the Road to Success
December 18, 2018
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Twenty-one seniors, including Jacqueline Ortiz woke up as early as 6:00 a.m in the morning to go to Onsite, an event organized by Chicago Scholars. This event gives the seniors the opportunity to meet their prospective colleges and get acceptances as well as scholarships on the spot, and Ortiz was no e...
Bittersweet Last Season
December 14, 2018
Recently, the boy’s basketball season started and the players couldn’t be more excited. For some, however, the start of this season is bittersweet because it’s the last season of their high school career. In total, there are four senior captains of the team, Khalid Herron, Eddie Fox Commings, Ken...