While walking to their classes this school year, students will be sure to see a lot of new faces around the hallways--teachers included! Benet welcomes ten new teachers for this year, with one in almost every department. Ms. Maggie White, who will be joining the English department as the substitut...

Benet Academy’s performance of “All Shook Up” found itself once again an item of praise this summer. Already a favorite amongst the Redwings for its bold dance numbers and jukebox tunes, the Illinois High School Musical Theater Awards nominated the performance for five awards: Best Production of...

This summer, twenty-one Benet students and four adult chaperones participated in a service trip to Guatemala. During the week of service, these students built a house for a family who had never before even had a door that locked. They were separated into four different work groups and did everything from laying bricks for the walls and mixing c...

Summer: a time of freedom, joy, excitement, and most importantly, adventure. Benet Academy students tend to have a love of adventure, try new things, and share their Benedictine values with others. This past summer was no different, as Benet students had the opportunity to travel to various locations...

Very exciting events, invisible to the naked eye, happen within our universe every second of every day! From our sun, each second radiation is released as hundreds of millions of metric tons of hydrogen atoms fuse to form helium. Within our own galaxy, electromagnetic radiation and energetic particle...