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Juniors take second in biomedical debate

March 26, 2018

This weekend, 11 CA students traveled with advisor Troy Weaver to Greensboro for the 43^rd NC State Health Occupations Students of America (NC-HOSA) State Conference and competition.

Five of those students advanced to the final round of competition, a first for Cary Academy. Salma Said ('19), Anthony Guzzo ('19) and RJ Jain ('19) made it to the final round of team Biomedical Debate. Cindy Li ('20) and Christianna Swift ('20) made it to the competitive finals of CERT and were presented with a relief scenario in which they will be judged on the medical applications they employ in a mock disaster.

The team of Said, Guzzo, and Jain took second after the final rounds, and as a top-three finisher will represent North Carolina at the International Leadership Conference on June 27^th-30^th in Dallas, TX.

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Students excel at regional math contest

March 26, 2018

At the State Regional Mathematics Contest at Wake Technical Community College, four teams of CA middle and upper schoolers competed against many of the top mathematics students in Wake County, and likely in all of the state. Roughly 35 schools participated in this meet.

Five students earned individual medals for their performances: Eric Ye (’24), Ruiyang Wu (’24), Bryan Fang (’23), Rishi Goswami (’20) and Vincent Wang (’18)

Eric, Bryan, Rishi and Vincent also qualified for the State Mathematics Contest in their respective divisions!

John Noland and Kristi Ramey co-chaperoned the students at the competition.

Algebra I:

Team: Haitian Huang (’23), Nitya Nalamothu (’23), Ruiyang Wu (’24), Eric Ye (’24)

Team finish: 4^thplace (earned plaque)

Top Individuals:

Eric Ye (6^th), State Qualifier

Ruiyang Wu (12^th), Medal Winner

Nitya Nalamothu (24^th)

Geometry:

Team: Bryan Fang (’23), Andrew Lake (’22), Vinith Upadhya (’22), Emily Wang (’22)

Team finish: 3^rd place (earned plaque)

Top Individuals:

Bryan Fang (5^th), State Qualifier

Emily Wang (20^th)

Andrew Lake (21^st)

Algebra II:

Team: Victoria Du (’20), Paul Ibrahim (’21), Savannah Lu (‘20), Han Zhang (‘21)

Team finish: 9^thplace

Comprehensive:

Team: Isaac Fan (’19), Chelsea Fang (’18), Abby Geigerman (’19), Rishi Goswami (’20), Josh Pullen (’18), Vincent Wang (’18)

Team finish: 2^nd place (earned plaque)

Top Individuals:

Vincent Wang (6^th), State Qualifier

Rishi Goswami (13^th), State qualifier

Chelsea Fang (17^th)

Josh Pullen (21^st)

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Students excel at German Day competition

March 22, 2018

CA students of German had a wonderful time at the NC German Day Competition on March 14, 2018. Each year at German Day there are approximately 20 school represented from across the state and about 500 students who participate. This year the event took place at UNC-G in Greensboro.

Overall School Scores

First Place: Providence High School, Charlotte

Second and Third Place: Cary Academy! (both divisions)

Individual Results

Middle School:

NIKLAS HAGSTROEM : 1^st place in Poetry Recitation Level 1

JANE SIHM : 1^st place in Poster Design

NINA NATAN-RYBICKI : 2^nd place in Poster

ABBY SMETANA : Honorable Mention in Spelling bee

NICK HALFERTY, CHRIS BUTULIS, ALEX DIETRICH, EDDIE BRICIO, SEDEF IZ, KENDYLL GEORGE : Honorable Mention in Skit Level 1

Upper School:

DAVID GO: Honorable Mention in the Verb Bee

ADDIE ESPOSITO: First Place in Heritage Level Poetry Recitation, where she wrote her own poem, and First Place in Extemporaneous Speaking Level III

MAX FELIU MERCE: Second Place Extemporaneous Speaking Level II

TEO FELIU MERCE: Honorable Mention in Extemporaneous Speaking Heritage Level

XAVIER DESOUZA, KENNY EHEMANN, MATTHEW CROW, MAX FELIU MERCE: Second Place in Karaoke

DORRIT EISENBEIS, HANNAH GEORGE: Second Place Scavenger Hunt

DAVID GO, PARKER PERKINS: First Place Scavenger Hunt

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Willkommen to visiting students

March 21, 2018

Cary Academy extends a warm “Willkommen” to a visiting exchange group from the Feldbergschule, our sister school in Oberursel, Germany (near Frankfurt). Sixteen students and their teachers, Ms. Claudia Griesing and Ms. Mehtap Aslan, arrived in Cary on Saturday, March 17th, after spending three days in Washington D.C. Head of School Mike Ehrhardt and Head of Upper School Heather Clarkson greeted the group with a brief reception on Monday morning in the Administration building lobby. This year’s exchange, coordinated by Wendy Burgbacher, is the second between our two schools and receives support from the national German American Partnership Program (GAPP). During their stay in Cary, the German students will visit regular classes with their CA partners, as well as participate in a series of special classes offered by volunteers from the CA faculty. The program also includes visits to downtown Raleigh and to Duke and UNC-CH, along with a trip to the International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro. Our friends from the Feldbergschule will be with us until March 28th, and Cary Academy students will return the visit to Oberursel in late May/early June as part of our annual world language exchange program.

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Virtual German Day 2021 results: sehr gut!

Varsity robotics in elimination rounds

March 21, 2018

At the FRC robotics competition at UNC Pembroke this past weekend, the CA team finished with a record of 8-4 and in sixth place (out of 36 teams) after preliminary competition. They lost in the quarterfinals playoff but are already contemplating adjustments to their robot for the second tournament of the year on March 30-31 in Winston-Salem. You can follow the team on Twitter @Robotics5160 or Instagram @chargers5160.

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Zhong and Liu shine at all-state clinic

February 20, 2018

On Feb 18, two Upper School students participated the NC Eastern Regional All-State Orchestra Clinic. There were 43 schools and 235 musicians playing for symphony and string orchestras. Sarah Russell, music instructor at Providence Day School and Dr. Rebecca MacLeod, Associate Professor of Music Education at UNC Greensboro, conducted.

Jessica Zhong ('20) earned 2^nd Chair (out of 22) in the first violin section in Symphony orchestra.

Amy Liu ('21) earned 6^th chair (out of 26) in the second violin section in Stringed orchestra.

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Swimmers excel at State Meet

February 20, 2018

Congratulations to both CA swim teams on a terrific performance at the State Meet in Greensboro Monday.

The girls dominated on their way to a second consecutive State Championship. The Charger girls scored 349 points while the runner up team, Charlotte Latin, was 112 points behind at 237. The boys finished as State Runners-Up to a very talented Charlotte Latin boys team.

The girls started the meet at a school record setting pace, literally, in the Medley Relay with Nisma Said, Amy Chang, Charlotte Hook and Helen Chen. Senior Ben Humphries finished his swimming career breaking school records in both of his individual events, the 100 Free and 50 Free. The 50 Free, was an 18-year-old record held by Phillip Barish – and earned Ben state champion status. Izzy Barnette reset her 100 yard Freestyle record and a multitude of Relay records fell by the wayside including the girls 200 yard Freestyle Relay (Elena Zayas, Isabella Barnette, Emma Zayas, Charlotte Hook) and 400 Yard Free Relay (Helen Chen, Emma Zayas, Nisma Said and Isabella Barnette). However, The bittersweet moment came in the boys 200 Freestyle Relay with Will Newman, Vincent Wang, Ben Humphries and Josh Pullen. They set a new school and STATE MEET RECORD — only to place 2^nd by .07 seconds thereby never really holding the record.

Other Medalists of the Meet:

Eighth grader Charlotte Hook, finished 2^nd overall in BOTH of her individual events, the 200 IM and 100 Butterfly and broke the long time IM record held by Bryttany Curran.

The following placed 3^rd; Nisma Said (100 Fly), Josh Pullen (50 Free), Jack Todd (500 Free) and Amy Chang (100 Breaststroke). Nisma also set a CA 100 yard backstroke record.

Girls 200 Medley Relay (state champs), 200 Free Relay (2^nd place) and 400 Free Relay (3^rd place)

Boys 200 Freestyle Relay and 400 Freestyle Relay (Wang, Pullen, Todd and Humphries) finished 2^ndin both events

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Wrestlers finish 4th at State

February 19, 2018

The CA wrestling team finished 4th at the State Tournament held this weekend, the highest team placement in CA's history.

Chapman Fitzgerald ('18), Joe McDarris ('18), Julian Sodano ('18) and Christian Sodano ('19) return home as State Champions. Also in the mix, 7th grader Henry Kopf placed 5th along with Jonathan Williams who also placed fifth overall! Congratulations to Coaches Moore, Rokuskie, Speno, Citineni and Atieh as well as all the wrestlers on a terrific season!

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Velu (’18) wins Gold Award

February 19, 2018

Anjali Velu (’18) has earned the Gold Award, the highest accolade awarded to a Girl Scout.

Velu worked in conjunction with NCTRC (North Carolina Therapeutic Riding Center) for over a year to develop outreach programs and workshops that showcased the benefits of therapeutic horseback riding for individuals with special needs and veterans coping with PTSD or other disorders.

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