Last week the Community for Learning held a book fair from Tuesday through Friday. The fair was organized by Elizabeth-Ann Dabdoub Miladeh owner of Kid’s Stuff. The students who were interested in the fair attended during lunch time and dismissal. The prices for items sold started at 110 pesos. The fair offered a variety of books [...]
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March 8, 2010
Should We Consume Energy Drinks?/Deberiamos Consumir Bebidas Energeticas?
Energy drinks have been around since the early 1960’s. From the beginning, they have been advertised in a very direct way. Commercials say that energy drinks boost performance, concentration, and improve reaction time. These statements about energy drinks are true, but commercials don’t reveal the adverse effects caused by energy drinks.
The source of the boost [...]
March 8, 2010
Lending Haiti a Hand / Una mano amiga para Haiti
Lending Haiti a hand
Last long weekend while most of us were enjoying our first holidays of the New Year, a teacher was actually working in Haiti. From Thursday, January 21st to Monday, January 25th, Yvette Witte, Ecology teacher at The Community for Learning, was hired by the Humane Society International (HSI) as a “consultant to [...]
March 1, 2010
Rafaela Eusebio: Meet The Specialist
The Community for Learning has many talented students, some in the area of sports and some in the area of arts, such as senior Rafaela Eusebio. Rafaela’s talent is photography. This young lady has learned to observe things from differentperspectives and to capture the beauty of our environment.
Rafaela discovered her passion at the age of [...]
February 15, 2010
Let the Games Begin! / Que Comiencen los Juegos!
Well, math was not considered an olympic discipline back in ancient Greece, however the SEE (Secretaria de Estado de Educacion) has been organizing the Math Olympics for quite some time. Students from all over the Dominican Republic compete for supremacy as they test their analytical capacities by completing a three-hour-long test. The Olympics are organized [...]
February 15, 2010
Daniela Cordero: The Horse Whisperer / Apasionada por los Caballos
Taking a closer look at the talents in the Community for Learning, The Voice decided to do an interview with Daniela Cordero a senior student who has spent half of her life doing what she loves, horseback riding.
This year, 2010, is hopefully a fresh start for all of us, but it has definitely been a [...]
February 1, 2010
Thank You! Gracias!
Speaking for The Community for Learning, the spirit Club, and all those affected by the earthquake in Haiti, The Voice would like to thank everyone for their earnest contributions to the Haiti Disaster Relief Effort. However, Haiti is still in desperate need. For this reason the Spirit Club has decided that further food and medicine [...]
February 1, 2010
TCFL Students Research Biodiesel Fuel/Estudiantes Del Community investigan Planta de Biodiesel
The 12th grade class, chaperoned by Denise the chemistry teacher and Yvette the ecology teacher went on a school trip to Barahona. The motive for this school trip was to see and experience how a biodiesel energy plant works and what the benefits of having such a plant are.
Among the things that the 12th grade [...]
January 14, 2010
Haiti Disaster Response / Respuesta para Desastre en Haiti
The Community for Learning’s Spirit Club along with the support of Centro Bonó is managing a donation center at school with the purpose of assisting the disaster relief movements present in Haiti.
January 11, 2010
Raffle: Congratulations Stephan! / ¡Felicitaciones Stephan!
One of the projects of the Design Club during the first trimester was preparing a Christmas basket for a raffle. The money collected from this activity will be used to fund various graduation and activities for the classes of 2010 and 2011. Among the possible uses of the funds are the decoration for the graduation [...]
