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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 […]
In the Math League Press’s Mathematics League, CA students participated in six regular season rounds of contests throughout the year against teams from 21 states. Overall, our team finished 15th and in our four-state region within that group, CA finished 1st! Rishi Goswami (‘20) finished 13th overall individually and was CA’s strongest overall performer. […]
Current parents Adeola Lawal and Jacqui Jett serve as ambassadors at a Admissions event. We’re still elbow-deep in the number-crunching and report-drafting that comes at this point in the Admissions Cycle! We are certainly celebrating another unprecedented season, with a 6% increase in our total applications – 359 for the 19-20 school year and counting. […]
CA’s Asian-American Affinity Group hosted its first speaker panel, on Wednesday, as part of Cary Academy’s Symposium Series. The panel, featuring Dr. Ryan Ku, a fellow at Duke University’s Asian-American Studies Center, specializing in the developing of the Asian-American identity in literature and Ms. Manju Karkare, a Raleigh-based dietician dedicated to providing nutritional counseling and making healthy eating […]
The Jenkins family cheers on Varsity Robotics at UNC Pembroke. Cary Academy’s FRC (varsity) robotics team (#5160) had a fantastic 2nd tournament, but fell short of qualifying for states. FRC tournaments are two-day affairs. Each team plays in 12 qualification matches which determines their tournament ranking. After those matches, the 8 highest seeds choose two other […]
