St. Edmund Prep, Sheepshead Bay, warmly welcomes the students from St. Aidan’s School in Brisbane, Australia. The Australian students were greeted with a welcome breakfast sponsored by the Student Council. They met the students they will be staying with for the time they are in Brooklyn. They will be visiting the United Nations, seeing a […]
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Xaverian Goes Gold For Frankie
On Sept. 16, students from both Xaverian’s middle school program, Genesis, and high school in Bay Ridge joined forces to Go Gold to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. The Go Gold effort has been spearheaded by Camille Orichio-Loccisano, who lost her son, Frankie, a member of Xaverian’s class of 2008, to pediatric cancer in 2007. […]
Youth Views: How do you beat procrastination?
I try to do my work as soon as I get it so I can not worry about it later.
OLH Gets a Clean Start to WYD 2016
The youth of Our Lady of Hope parish, Middle Village, organized a car wash fundraiser for the benefit of those attending World Youth Day 2016
Our Youth Go Back to School
Catholic high schools in Brooklyn and Queens have been filling up with enthusiastic teens eager to start the 2015-2016 academic year.
Youth Views: Tell us about your morning commute
I am driven to school each morning and take the bus home. I love this set up because I can have a calm and relaxing morning and am also able to spend time with my friends on the way home.
Kearney Summer Interns Care for Books
The bookstore at Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, saw a revamp through the hard work of Kearney interns Amanda Potter, Anotonia D’Amato and Bridget Pynn.
Youth Know Faith Is a Verb
Youth from SS. Simon and Jude parish, Gravesend, worked on projects to help raise awareness of problems arising from abuse, autism, poverty, hunger, cancer, suicide risk, bullying and racism.
Teen Newsflash: Help to get to WYD
St. Thomas Aquinas, Flatlands, has signed up to a fund raising campaign through Aid to the Church in Need. You can help the parish teens embark on this World Youth Day pilgrimage by going to: http://acn.convio.net.
What are your goals for the upcoming school year?
I look forward to creating more high school activities/projects with my friends because we want to strengthen our school community.