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Two CA Middle School orchestra students, Grace Chow (’21) and ThucUyen Dzu (’21), participated in the Junior Eastern Regional All State Orchestra on May 6 at White Oak High School in Jacksonville. The Philharmonia Orchestra has 75 distinguished young musicians, and the conductor is Scott Laird, an orchestra director in NCSSM.

At the 8th Annual North Carolina Chinese Speech Contest Finals, which took place on April 29 at the NCSU Hunt Library, four CA students won awards. In addition, Cary Academy won the 2017 Chinese Speech Contest Excellent Organization Award. The 10 finalists in the Advanced category, seven of which were from CA, were selected from […]

Maddy Walker (’20) and her competitive cheer team, SMOEX, finished third at The Cheerleading Worlds held April 29-May 1 at Walt Disney World in Orlando. The event is hosted annually by The United States All Star Federation. Walker and her team took home bronze in the senior medium coed category. Watch the team in action.

Lindsay Wrege (’17) has accepted a Park Scholarship to North Carolina State University. The Park Scholarships Class of 2021 – the 22nd class of Park Scholars – will comprise 39 scholars, selected from nearly 2,150 candidates from across North Carolina and the United States. The Selection Committee based its decisions on the candidates’ demonstrated accomplishments […]

After the final of six regular season contests, CA is the state winner – as well as the third-place team – in the 21-state region in Math League Press’ Math League Contest. A team plaque commemorating this achievement will soon be on display in U222. Three CA students received individual recognition for being cumulative top […]

The varsity robotics team is going to the FIRST Championships in Houston taking place April 19-22. The team narrowly missed qualifying at the state tournament (by one spot) and ended ranked 15th out of 59 teams in NC. However, the team was able to secure an invitation due to openings that occur when teams are […]

At the National Council of History Educators, held March 29-April 1 in Atlanta, the CA STEP Club presented a workshop titled Democratizing History: Conceptual Modeling as a Means to Deep, Permanent and Transferable Understanding. The students attending were: Aditya Surana, Maddie Mizelle, Jack Werner, Anjali Velu (whose dad came along as a chaperon), Krishan Guzzo […]

Lily Levin (’19) is the winner of the Dave Patton Award for the Best Story by a Varsity Athlete in the 2017 Raleigh Fine Arts Society Literary Contest. This is one of the society’s top three awards and carries with it a cash prize for the student plus $100 for Cary Academy. Raleigh Fine Arts […]

On March 31 at the State Economics Championship at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond – Charlotte Branch, the CA team earned a bronze medal. The Econ Challenge has two divisions: Adam Smith for AP-level students, and David Ricardo for students with a more general economics background. CA’s Khushi Surana and Liam Carriker were AP-level […]

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