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Students selected to represent CA in North Carolina Honors Chorus

October 25, 2018

Three Cary Academy chorus students earned one of the coveted spots in the North Carolina Honors Choirs this year. The spots are highly competitive among the strongest choral musicians in the state and require performing a difficult piece of choral repertoire and sight singing an excerpt that they have one minute to learn.

Eighth-grade chorus student, Koen Chao, will be representing Cary Academy as a Bass in the NC Middle School Honors Chorus.

Sophomores Vibhav Nandagiri, Tenor 2, and Brandon Yi, Bass 1, will be representing Cary Academy in the NC High School Honors Chorus.

The event is held in Winston Salem over the weekend of November 10 and 11 in conjunction with the North Carolina Music Educators Association and culminates in a concert that is free to the public at the Stevens Center in downtown Winston Salem. The Middle School concert is at 1:30pm and the High School concert is at 3:00pm on Sunday, November 11, 2018.

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CA’s Speech and Debate team takes top honors at the Pinecrest Open

October 4, 2018

Congratulations to CA’s Speech and Debate team for taking top prize at the Pinecrest Open at Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines, NC on September 29. Students participated in Original Oratory, Extemporaneous Speaking, Program Oral Interpretation, Impromptu Speaking, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate. CA placed in every event in which we participated.

Team: First place – Overall Sweepstakes

Bayla Sheshadri: First place – Original Oratory

Becca Segal: First place – Impromptu Speaking

Lexi Klein: First place – Varsity Congressional Debate

Sydney Tai: Best Declamation and all-around Declamation Champion

Grace Wissink: First place – Program Oral Interpretation

Emily Zheng: Sixth place – Declamation

Becca Segal: Fourth place – Extemporaneous Speaking

Shannon Jenkins: Fourth place – Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate

Will Aarons: Fifth place – Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate

Isaac Fan and Matthew Schaefer: Fifth place – Varsity Public Forum Debate

An extra congratulations to our debate novices on an impressive showing at their first competitive tournament.

Folu Ogundipe: Second place – Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate

Emily Wang: Third place – Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate

Allie Chandler: Fourth place – Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate

Casey Powell: Sixth place – Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate

Safiya Alvi, Owen Kadis, Maddi Macchi, Allen He: Honorable mentions – Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate

Alek Palakuruthi and Aryan Nair: Second place team – Novice Public Forum Debate

Adam Farris and David Howard: Third place team – Novice Public Forum Debate

Miles Ramee and Sanjna Jotwani: Fifth place team — Novice Public Forum Debate

Andrew Holland and Oliver Moore; Annya Sachdeva and JR Cobb: Honorable mentions – Novice Public Forum Debate

Meirav Solomon Fourth place – Novice Congressional Debate

Andrew Lake: Fourth place – Novice Congressional Debate

Jane Sihm: Fifth place – Novice Congressional Debate

Kelsey Welch: Sixth place – Novice Congressional Debate

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Computer Science All-Stars

June 1, 2018

The American Computer Science League All-Star Contest was held on May 26 at Barrington HS near Providence, RI. The CA team of Thomas Hoffman (’18), Matthew Modi (’20) and Vincent Wang (’18) finished in 6^th place in this international competition, involving team programming and individual written rounds, and battling against top teams from the U.S., Romania, Canada and Croatia. Competition in our division was extremely tight. The team scored 39/40 on the programming round and 26/36 on the especially challenging written round, and were actually just two points behind 1^st place!

For their written round performances, Thomas won an Amazon Echo Dot and Vincent, with a perfect score, brought home a Chromebook computer. Matthew, as the only returning underclassman, will likely be our team’s leader for next year.

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Ye (’24) places 10th

May 7, 2018

At the State Algebra 1 Math Contest held at UNC Greensboro on Thursday May 3, Eric Ye (’24), middle of back row in blue/grey hoodie, earned 10^th place in NC and a trophy for his performance.

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Walker (’20) on winning cheer team

May 4, 2018

At the end of April, Maddy Walker ('20) participated in the “Worlds Cheerleading Competition” in Orlando, Florida. The competition invites the top cheerleading clubs from around the world to compete. Her Raleigh team, Cheer Extreme SSX, beat 46 teams to take her division championship.

You can see the performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiAjco-Pzg

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MS orchestra is Grand Champion

April 23, 2018

Last Friday, the MS and US orchestras participated and competed in Festival Music of Kings Dominion.

In the final results, both orchestras won first place and were rated superior. The MS orchestra earned the highest score from 3 judges among the entire orchestra division and received the Overall Grand Champion Award from the festival.

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Guzzos accepted into NIH summer program

April 16, 2018

Juniors Anthony and Krishan Guzzo have been accepted into the competitive NIH Summer Internship Program.

Krishan will be with the NIEHS in Durham studying the roles of various molecular mechanisms in the process of aging. Anthony will be in the Inflammatory Cell Recruitment Laboratory, with a focus on allergic asthma.

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CA math team finishes top ranked in state

April 11, 2018

CA finished as the 6^th place team in the Math League Press’s Math League contests in our 23-state region, and is the top-ranked school in NC.

There are six rounds of the contest between October and April.

Three students received individual recognition for their cumulative scores on the six contests:

Vincent Wang (’18) — 9^th place in our region

Thomas Hoffmann (’18) — 21^st place in our region

Chelsea Fang (’18) — 39^th place in our region

Other students who placed among the Top 5 on at least one of the contests:

Abby Geigerman (’19), Rishi Goswami (’20), Paul Ibrahim (’21), Robert Schellenberger (’18), Viraj Shah (’19), Colin Zhu (’20)

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CA students take top honors in Chinese language contest

April 9, 2018

Cary Academy students took 6 of the top 10 spots in the North Carolina Advanced Chinese Language Contest.

The 9th annual speech contest had 441 contestants, from 34 different schools/organizations, 11 cities and 11 counties (Cabarrus, Cumberland, Durham, Forsyth, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Orange, Polk, Randolph, Union, and Wake).

Selecting 10 speech contest finalists in each category from Beginner to Advanced level Chinese, CA students took 6 of the top 10 in the Advanced level section. The following outstanding CA students are invited to compete in the Final Competition on April 28, 2018 at the Hunt Library of NC State University.

Coman, Zach
Ellison, Phoebe
Gozon, Peyton
Hampton, Kate
Pitterle, Cate
Swift, Christianna

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