We want to celebrate our sixth grade Illinois EPA winners! Eight of our sixth-graders and Mrs. Ronchi were looking forward to attending the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s 2020 Poster, Poetry, and Prose Contest Awards Ceremony at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, IL on Saturday, April 18, 2020. Unfortunately, it was cancelled due to the Illinois stay-at-home order. Therefore, we would like to now celebrate our students’ awesome

This week is Earth Week! Let’s do our part to recognize and preserve all of God’s Gifts in nature, and have some fun with it. We want to see all you do for Earth Week, please use the hashtag #SMAEarthWeek on any of your social postings. You can also send pics and videos to [email protected]. And remember to connect with all the SMA social channels to get the latest news, updates, see pics and videos and stay connected.

We want to congratulate several of our St. Monica Academy seventh and eighth grade students participated in the 2020 Illinois Junior Academy of Science (IJAS) Chicago Non-Public Schools’ (Region 2) Science Exposition. We are proud of our young scientists, and we wish them continued success in future scientific endeavors! Thank you to our Outstanding Junior High Science Teacher, Mrs. Karen Ronchi for her guidance and expertise in leading our High Achieving Science Program!