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The Middle School Band was Awarded the top honor of Superior from the judges, yesterday, at the NC Central District Bandmasters Association Music Performance Adjudication (MPA).
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.
Jimmy was ready for his first day as a new intern. He had on his best suit, ready to impress on his exploration of a potential career path. “Great to meet you,” his new boss said warmly. “Now, what I need you to do first is head down and clean the shower on the first […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Groundhog Day has come and gone, and while I don’t put much stock in the furry critter’s weather predictions, his appearance each year is a sure sign that another round of exchanges will soon be underway. As we get ready for the 17th season of the world language exchange program at Cary Academy, it’s hard […]
