March 21, 2019
Eight students selected for 2019 Governor’s School
Eight Upper School students were selected to attend this year’s session of the Governor’s School of North Carolina. Founded over fifty years ago, it is the oldest statewide summer residential program for academically or intellectually gifted high school students in the nation. It is a five and one-half week summer residential program for intellectually gifted high school students, integrating academic disciplines, the arts, and unique courses […]
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March 18, 2019
CA students make it count at Mathcounts
Four Middle School students competing as a team at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics placed in the top 25 percent of the 41 teams attending, this past Friday. Mathcounts is a national math enrichment, coaching & competition program that promotes middle schoolmathematics achievement.
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March 14, 2019
Dr. Robert Coven to present at international education symposium
Dr. Robert Coven, Upper School history teacher, has been selected to be a team leader and presenter at the prestigious international symposium, Re-Designing Education to Shape a Better World, to be held in Florence, Italy, in late June 2019. The 80 participants were chosen from among 400 invited to apply. Those selected come from 12 […]
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March 13, 2019
CA Future Health Professionals charge ahead in State HOSA competition
Exactly a week ago, Jarrica Kirkpatrick and I (Troy Weaver) took 15 members of our CA Chapter of HOSA-Future Health Professionals (formerly Health Occupations Students of America) who qualified to participate at the State Leadership Conference (SLC) in Charlotte. In fact, this time last week, HOSA was invited to take in an NBA game and we watched the Charlotte […]
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March 13, 2019
Triangle Debate League holds inaugural tournament
The Triangle Debate League—a non-profit organization comprised of CA student peer-mentors and collegiate debate coaches—hosted their inaugural tournament on March 12th with students from Jordan, Hillside and Southern High Schools. CA Speech and Debate students came out in big numbers to support, judge, and make the event run smoothly. Founded at CA, TDL works to bring speech and debate to Durham and […]
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March 13, 2019
Speech and Debate sweeps final Dogwood Tournament
CA’s novice speech and debaters finished off the Dogwood Speech and Debate League tournaments with another sweepstakes win on March 9. They swept the top six spots in Lincoln Douglas Debate, five of the six in Public Forum Debate, four of the top six/top three in Declamation, three of the top four in Impromptu, two of top […]
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February 20, 2019
Varsity Robotics’ last-ever ‘Bag Day’
There’s a little-known CA event that has occurred around the third Tuesday of every February since 2014. For Varsity Robotics it’s officially called ‘Stop Build Day,’ but more commonly known as ‘Bag and Tag Day,’ or simply ‘Bag Day’. Varsity Robotics competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), where students build 120 pound robots designed […]
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