March 17, 2016, Ms. Grace's 4th grade class is celebrating Marian Anderson for Women's History Month. Both Marian and Beyonce...

For 2016 Black History Month we wrote a play about our African Ancestors. We videotaped our performance and showed it at our school’s Black History Month Showcase. The play was about how our African Ancestors taught us kids that we came from greatness. We used our imagination to write the...

Minecraft is a fun game in which you can construct anything you imagine. Although it requires high level skills, one can achieve that with practice.  Once you learn the basics, you will quickly move to the next level.... 

Many of you have seen the Super Bowl Halftime Show, but not many of you may have watched Super Bowl commercials. One of these ads was for the new Lays flavor competition. In this competition people can vote for their favorite flavor online to choose which Lays chips stay on the shelves and which are off to the dump.... 

Hacktivists are hackers who fight for a cause. They fight for political justice and they promote social causes. But you will never know who’s a hacker because they look like everyday people....

During September of 2015, Friendship News Network, Tech Prep Bureau went to the Newseum. This trip was so we could learn about history. It was fun and interesting and it was important to me because I wanted to learn about 9/11.

On January 8, 2016, there was a science fair about sustainable houses. The fair was located in the cafeteria at Blow Pierce Junior Academy. This was hosted by the 8th graders....

“Black Panther” is a very influential and inspiring comic book character within the Marvel Universe.  He is one of the few positive images of Africans and African Americans appearing during the height of segregation and racial tension in the 1960s.

February 11th, 2016. Students from Friendship Tech Prep went to the National Geographic Museum to attend a meeting for S.T.E.M mentoring at the S.T.E.M Mentoring Cafe. Some mentors told students about their work in space exploration of different galaxies....

 On January 2, 2016, Sean Beach and I went to the Georgetown Hoyas basketball  game. It was their second game at their home court. When they came out the song that was played was “Jumpman”, by the rapper, Future. Jumpman is a popular song made in DC.... 

On Saturday, February 27, 2016 I had the chance to visit where the president lives. I went with a program called College Tribe. College Tribe is a program that is STEM-based and is a mentoring program for 3rd-8th grade black boys.... 

Video by Leroy King, Korey Carter and Sy'Quan Clark. 

Video by Devon Rogers and FNN reporter Sy'Quan Clark. 

Video by Devon Rogers and FNN reporter Tyjai Robinson. Performance by Ms. Price's Dance class. 

We are in Ms. Glace’s 4th grade homeroom and we are called the Reading Rockstars. This video shows a book we wrote called “My Knight In Shining Armor that we read to Ms. Rogers kindergarten students....

Alumni Ambassadors, Two for the Price of One: FCA graduate, Rodney Mackey is in good hands at Morgan State University. He is fortunate enough to have two mentors to guide him through his freshman year, Stefon Mayhew and James Cannon....

Reading and book review by Tamari Kapfumvuti.  Video recording by Khamari Gills. 

All two scholars are in Ms. Georgia Spell’s PreK class at Friendship Chamberlain Academy.

FEB 25, 2016: Reading and book review by Gabrielle Idowu. Video recording by Khamari Gills.

Both scholars are in Ms. Georgia Spell’s PreK class at Friendship Chamberlain Academy.

Reading and book review by Tamari Kapfumvuti. Video recording by Khamari Gills

Both scholars are in Ms. Georgia Spell’s PreK class at Friendship Chamberlain Academy.

Soon phones can be used to better understand what is in food. Scott Faber, who is the vice president of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group,has helped make food labels that help people find different food information by simply using a phone to scan the food label. This will be done by the end of 2017.