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Some interesting news has come out of the Chinese program recently: More than 600 NC students entered the 2017 NC Chinese Speech Contest sponsored by the Confucius Institute NCSU. Seven CA students have made it to the Advanced-level Chinese Speech Contest final that will be held on April 29 at the NC State University Hunt […]

The 6th grade World Cultures classes have been working on a project in which students are using the design thinking process. They have used that process to build merchant shops along the main shopping district in 1805 Edo, modern day Toyko.

Aryan Nair (’22) competed in the Let’s Explore Africa Geography Quiz Bowl at the state level on March 4 at NC State University. After three rounds and answering 57 of the 62 questions correctly, Nair was declared state champion. The quiz had questions that covered the geography, flags, currencies, food, entertainment, people, literature, symbols, etc. […]

The varsity robotics team made it to the finals as part of an alliance at a FIRST NC district event in Winterville over the past weekend. The team finished in second. This is the first time that a CA FRC team has reached the final in a tournament. CA began the quarterfinals captaining the #6 […]

Fifteen MS and US students of German participated in the North Carolina German Day Competition at Wake Forest University on March 2. More than 550 students from 20 schools across the state attended. CA’s winners are: Poster: 3rd place: Alex Dietrick and Estella Monica Singing with Accompaniment Level 3+: 1st place: Dorrit Eisenbeis, Hannah George, […]

At the NCISAA state swimming championships on Feb. 20, the CA girls came in first, and the boys came in second. Click here for full results, and check out some of the highlights below: Izzy Barnette – reset her school record in the 100-yard freestyle. Girls 200-yard freestyle relay – reset the school record that […]

At the 18-team NCISAA State Wrestling Tournament held at Cary Academy on Feb. 17-18, two Chargers won state titles. Earning top individual honors for the Chargers were brothers Julian and Christian Sodano. Christian (’19) toughed out a hard-fought double overtime battle with Wesleyan Christian Academy’s second seed, Cameron Johnson, at the 126-pound weight class and […]

On Feb. 7, the boys and girls swimming teams captured the TISAC championships. The CA boys have now put together EIGHT straight conference championship titles, which is the longest streak for any CA varsity team in school history, and the CA girls have now put together a string of three championship titles. Both teams won […]

This past weekend the JV robotics teams completed their regular season competitions. The team competes in the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is the international organization that runs robotics competitions. CA’s teams Q (gold) and ChargerBots (blue) competed at the Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill. […]

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