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Congratulations to Jasmine Powell, whose second Durham Independent Dance Artists (DIDA) composition premieres tomorrow night. Powell, who has served as Cary Academy’s dance and movement teacher since 2015, explores the experience of black womanhood, self-worth, power and powerlessness through poetry and four solo dance performances in Approximation of a Woman, on-stage at Durham’s historic Hayti Heritage Center […]
Upper School Associate Director of College Counseling Brandon Carter is the recipient of the 2019 Curran Family Foundation Leadership in Teaching Award. The award was presented at Monday evening’s Honor a Teacher ceremony sponsored by the Cary Chamber of Commerce. Kara Caccuitto, Laura Price, and Matthew Ripley-Moffitt were also nominated for the award. Congratulations to all four of these […]
Cary Academy’s Varsity Girls Track and Field team won the Triangle Independent Schools Athletic Conference championship on Friday, at CA’s home track. The Varsity Boys team took second place in the conference. A number of CA student athletes were recognized by the conference, after the meet: TISAC Most Outstanding Athlete – Madi Walker, 4-event Champion – […]
Cary Academy's Athletic Department hosted a celebration for the commitments of ten Charger athletes from the Class of 2019 on Monday, May 13, in the Fitness Center Lobby (from left to right): Jessica Judge – rowing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Amy Chang – swimming at the George Washington University Cameron Abernethy – soccer at Davidson College […]
How do you quantify the impact that a teacher makes on the lives of their students, let alone the cumulative effect of an entire community of educators on the larger Cary Academy community? Teaching is exhausting work, even though we too-often pretend it should be effortless.
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 […]
