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CROEM's Radioastronomy Program highlighted in Science

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We share this note published in Science magazine describing a NASA program to educate high school and college students about how space can be explored with radio waves. CROEM High School in Mayagüez is one of several sites across the U.S. and Puerto Rico where students have listened to solar broadcasts using radio antennas they created.

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Women's Week kicks off with recognition of 10 outstanding women in the public school system

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The photo shows from left to right (seated) Jenny Cosme Figueroa, Corporate Executive; Eng. Ivette García Dunlap, Electrical Engineer and Betsy Velázquez Rodríguez, Corporate Consultant.  Standing left to right: Reinaldo Camps Gerena of the founding group of CROEM 1968; Laida Pla; Dr. Lourdes E. Soto de Laurido, Acting Dean of the School of Health Professions at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico; Ing. Olga D. González Sanabria, Director of Engineering at NASA Glenn Research Center; Dr. Fabiola Cruz López, Epidemiologist; Sonia Martínez de Vargas, sports leader; and Roberto Rivera Ponce, leader of CROEM graduate students.

Activities to celebrate CROEM's 54th Anniversary Announced

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Activities to celebrate CROEM's 54th Anniversary Announced

Students who obtained perfect scores in mathematics on the College Board and one who was nominated for the Presidential Medal will be recognized.

Mayagüez - The Association of Graduate Students of the Mayagüez Residential Educational Opportunity Center, better known by its acronym CROEM, announced the activities scheduled to celebrate CROEM Week and CROEMITA Day, declared by proclamation of the Puerto Rico Government's Department of State. 

Puerto Rican students win first place in NASA competition

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Originally published in La Perla del Sur

 

Students from the Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez (CROEM; a specialized STEM school in Puerto Rico) won first place in the “Veggies in Space o NASA Growing Beyond Earth (GBE)” competition sponsored by NASA.

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Three bronze metals for Puerto Rico

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Three Puerto Rican students won bronze medals at the XXXII Ibero-American Mathematics Olympiad, which was held recently in Iguazu, Argentina.

The students, trained by professors from the Mayagüez University campus (RUM), were Sebastián Latin, from the residential Center of educational opportunities of Mayaguez (CROEM); Omar Santiago, high school specializing in science, mathematics and technology (CIMATEC); and Miguel Tulla of the school Notre Dame, these last two in Caguas.

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CROEM student recognized in math competition

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Daniel Santiago, a 10th grade student at the Residential Center of Educative Opportunities of Mayagüez ("C.R.O.E.M."), obtained second place in the Math Category at the China Adolescents Science & Technology Innovation Contest celebrated in China.

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New neuroscience lab opens at specialized high school

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The organization NeuroBoricuas inaugurated the first neuroscience high school laboratory at the Centro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayagüez (CROEM), a specialized STEM high school.

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Opportunities in STEM careers

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Jayuya - Thousands of students in Puerto Rico are interested in STEM careers.

Read Matos Rodríguez's blog in Ciencia Puerto Rico.

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CROEC as an option for students interested in STEM fields

Submitted on 31 August 2015 - 10:20am

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CROEC (the residential center for educational activities in Ceiba), located in the former Naval Camp Roosevelt Roads, offers an academic curricula focused on STEM disciplines.

 

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Multiply the positive: the CROEM model

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In this opinion piece, Ana Helvia Quintero shares her thoughts about utilizing existing succesful models, such as the school CROEM, to improve education in Puerto Rico. 

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