The Rauner College Prep community gathers one Friday each month to celebrate success and address important issues facing our community, city, and world. Town hall meetings regularly include scholar presentations, awards, recognition of achievements, reflections on building character, and updates on RCP issues. Guest speakers often include alumni, community members, and supporters who encourage scholars to achieve their highest potential. We invite parents/guardians and members of the public to attend.
Recent Town Hall performances at Rauner have included The Prime Bee, a math competition much like a spelling bee where scholars from each advisory compete in front of the Rauner community and try to outlast each other in naming the most consecutive prime numbers. Four sophomore scholars who spent summers studying at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago shared experiences with the student body of doing their own laundry, living on their own, and working to achieve success in college-level classes.
Each Town Hall ends with a group of scholars leading the school in the Rauner Cheer, where every member of the community stands and shouts out the letters R-A-U-N-E-R and cheers with pride, reinforcing in our shared goal of building Rauner community that is second to none in preparing scholars to be successful in college and to lead exemplary lives.