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Congratulations to both the boys and girls MS Track & Field teams for 3-peating as Capital Area Middle School Conference Champions! The following athletes placed in the top 6th and thus, scored points. Bolded names set the new championship record and underlined names set their personal best. Boys 50 – Thuy Dzu (1st) CR, Thomas George (4th) 100 – Jared Cooper (2nd) 200 – Jared […]
Earlier this month, I welled with pride watching confident Southern High School students participate in an articulate, well-argued, impassioned Congressional debate on a bill raising the minimum wage. As their CA peer-mentors cross-examined them, both sides lighting up in delight from the equal intellectual exchange, I was struck by how far we have come and […]
Three rising juniors (Kathryn Chao, Hannah Gordon, & Sarah Hallman) will take a summer enrichment course called Urban Design for Social Justice, along with 9 other students from Wake County Public Schools and Saint Mary’s. This is a CA course that builds on the Community Engagement class focus on local poverty and inequality, as well […]
Each year the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Wake County holds an essay writing contest for juniors and seniors in both public and private schools. English teachers are asked to invite select students to submit a written analysis of a work of literature produced in the normal coursework assigned by the teacher. This year, Madi […]
Cary Academy’s Science Olympiad team had a successful finish to the 2019 NCSO State tournament, held at NC State University this past weekend, placing 3rd in Chem Lab; 8th in Circuit Lab, Geologic Mapping, and Water Quality; and 9th in Experimental Design. The team placed 21 of 50 schools competing from across the state (a fantastic showing for CA […]
Last Monday, Thomas Hoffmann (CA ’18) and his team from Caltech won the 2019 Data Open National Championship, taking home a cash prize of $100,000! Over 10,000 students applied to participate in Correlation One’s Datathon series with Citadel and Citadel Securities, but only 96 individuals were chosen to compete in this culminating event, which took place […]
As with any innovation, it started with a question – or rather, a bunch of questions: How can we realize the strategic plan’s vision of creating learning opportunities that are personalized, flexible, and relevant? What would it look like if students could take courses that suit their interests in the order that they choose? What can […]
Members of the Community Engagement Class tend the community garden at Alliance Medical Ministry in Wake County. How do students at a private school understand and respond to the critical needs in their community? One way a group of us tried to break out of our CA “bubble” was in an innovative class that began […]
A preoccupation with lists and ranking? I’m guilty. In my defense, though, I’d like to say that I’m a product of my time. For me, as a kid growing up in Minnesota, I was hooked on Casey Kasem’s American Top 40—a window into a much hipper world on both coasts. I was a college freshman […]
