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Students win Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

March 27, 2018

Evan Ehrhardt ('18) and Elizabeth Kim ('20) have won National Medals in the 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards dates back to 1923. Over the years, the Awards have grown to become the longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in the U.S., and the nation’s largest source of scholarships for creative young artists and writers.

National Medalists represent less than 1% of the nearly 350,000 submitted works of art and writing. Nearly 20,000 submissions received regional Gold Keys and 3,300 medals were awarded at the national level.

Kim won a National Silver Medal for her painting Tracks.
Ehrhardt won a National Silver Medal for his short story Her Name Was Rebecca When You Met Her.
Ehrhardt won a National Gold Medal in the humor writing category for Larry Dreams of Pound Cake: A Mockumentary.

Winners are invited to a national recognition ceremony at New York City's Carnegie Hall in June. Gold Medalists will have their works displayed in the National Exhibition at Parsons School of Design at the New School and Pratt Institute's Pratt Manhattan Gallery between June 1-10.

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Juniors take second in biomedical debate

March 26, 2018

This weekend, 11 CA students traveled with advisor Troy Weaver to Greensboro for the 43^rd NC State Health Occupations Students of America (NC-HOSA) State Conference and competition.

Five of those students advanced to the final round of competition, a first for Cary Academy. Salma Said ('19), Anthony Guzzo ('19) and RJ Jain ('19) made it to the final round of team Biomedical Debate. Cindy Li ('20) and Christianna Swift ('20) made it to the competitive finals of CERT and were presented with a relief scenario in which they will be judged on the medical applications they employ in a mock disaster.

The team of Said, Guzzo, and Jain took second after the final rounds, and as a top-three finisher will represent North Carolina at the International Leadership Conference on June 27^th-30^th in Dallas, TX.

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Students excel at regional math contest

March 26, 2018

At the State Regional Mathematics Contest at Wake Technical Community College, four teams of CA middle and upper schoolers competed against many of the top mathematics students in Wake County, and likely in all of the state. Roughly 35 schools participated in this meet.

Five students earned individual medals for their performances: Eric Ye (’24), Ruiyang Wu (’24), Bryan Fang (’23), Rishi Goswami (’20) and Vincent Wang (’18)

Eric, Bryan, Rishi and Vincent also qualified for the State Mathematics Contest in their respective divisions!

John Noland and Kristi Ramey co-chaperoned the students at the competition.

Algebra I:

Team: Haitian Huang (’23), Nitya Nalamothu (’23), Ruiyang Wu (’24), Eric Ye (’24)

Team finish: 4^thplace (earned plaque)

Top Individuals:

Eric Ye (6^th), State Qualifier

Ruiyang Wu (12^th), Medal Winner

Nitya Nalamothu (24^th)

Geometry:

Team: Bryan Fang (’23), Andrew Lake (’22), Vinith Upadhya (’22), Emily Wang (’22)

Team finish: 3^rd place (earned plaque)

Top Individuals:

Bryan Fang (5^th), State Qualifier

Emily Wang (20^th)

Andrew Lake (21^st)

Algebra II:

Team: Victoria Du (’20), Paul Ibrahim (’21), Savannah Lu (‘20), Han Zhang (‘21)

Team finish: 9^thplace

Comprehensive:

Team: Isaac Fan (’19), Chelsea Fang (’18), Abby Geigerman (’19), Rishi Goswami (’20), Josh Pullen (’18), Vincent Wang (’18)

Team finish: 2^nd place (earned plaque)

Top Individuals:

Vincent Wang (6^th), State Qualifier

Rishi Goswami (13^th), State qualifier

Chelsea Fang (17^th)

Josh Pullen (21^st)

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Zhong and Liu shine at all-state clinic

February 20, 2018

On Feb 18, two Upper School students participated the NC Eastern Regional All-State Orchestra Clinic. There were 43 schools and 235 musicians playing for symphony and string orchestras. Sarah Russell, music instructor at Providence Day School and Dr. Rebecca MacLeod, Associate Professor of Music Education at UNC Greensboro, conducted.

Jessica Zhong ('20) earned 2^nd Chair (out of 22) in the first violin section in Symphony orchestra.

Amy Liu ('21) earned 6^th chair (out of 26) in the second violin section in Stringed orchestra.

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Velu (’18) wins Gold Award

February 19, 2018

Anjali Velu (’18) has earned the Gold Award, the highest accolade awarded to a Girl Scout.

Velu worked in conjunction with NCTRC (North Carolina Therapeutic Riding Center) for over a year to develop outreach programs and workshops that showcased the benefits of therapeutic horseback riding for individuals with special needs and veterans coping with PTSD or other disorders.

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Murphy (’18) selected to all-stars

February 13, 2018

Senior Trey Murphy has been selected to play in the 2018 North Carolina Private School All-Star game, featuring 14 players who have signed scholarships to play Division I basketball next season. Murphy has signed to play for Rice. The game will take place March 3 at Providence Day School.

The East and West rosters below.

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Sci Oly team takes medals

February 6, 2018

Congratulations to the 36 US students who competed in the Science Olympiad Raleigh Regional. Our JV team medaled in eight events and the Varsity team earned 5th place and medaled in 12 events

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Physics team shoots for the moon

February 2, 2018

Cary Academy took 3rd place in the prestigious United States Invitational Young Physicists Tournament (USIYPT) in January 2018. Teams of students from schools around the world had been working on complex problems for a full calendar year and joined together to share and defend their research.

This year, teams of students worked on Moon’s Orbit (Robert Schellenberger and Vincent Wang with help from Rachel May and Abe Weinstein), Electromagnetically Coupled Mechanical Oscillators (Cameron Fisher and Abe Weinstein with help from Obinna Modilim), Projectile Motion Through the Air (Josh Pullen, Ross Matton and Ben Humphries with help from Scott Matton, Will Aarons, Felipe Chiavegatto, Aidan Sher, and Saajan Patal) and Incandescent Light Bulbs and Blackbody Radiation (Maggie Hayes with help from Christian Sodano and Paul Ibrahim).

The competition on these undergraduate-level physics questions involves both presentation and defense of CA team research but also understanding and discussing the research presented by other schools. Maggie Hayes (team captain), Robert Schellenerger, Josh Pullen and Abe Weinstein ably presented and defended their work at the competition, but it is truly an effort of the whole group, as no single person could possibly complete a project of this magnitude alone.

USAYPT’s goal is to improve teaching and learning by promoting research at the high school level. This was the third year that Cary Academy has been invited to participate. The team was started by US physics teacher Matt Greenwolfe, with support from faculty members Dick Mentock, Robert Coven, and Rachel Atay.

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Both JV robot teams headed to States

January 30, 2018

Cary Academy has two JV robotics teams that compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge. On Saturday, January 27th, they went to their second qualifying tournament, their last chance to move on to the States. Both teams (and robots) met the challenge with flying colors.

At the end of round-robin play where each team competes in 5 matches, both Team Q – 5270 and the ChargerBots – 12010 finished with records of 4-1. Scoring rules sort out ties leaving 5270 seeded #3 and 12010 seeded #4. The #1 seeded team was Aperture Science, driving a virtually unbeatable bot; and Deus Ex Machina rounded out the top for as the #2 seed.

During alliance selection, where the top 4 seeds choose two other robots to join their alliance, the #1 team chose 12010 to join them and the #2 seed chose the 5270 to join them. Both CA teams jumped to a higher-seeded alliance, opening the door for our teams to go head-to-head in the finals.

Playoff rounds use a best two out of three format, and both alliances won their semi-final rounds in two matches, sending both CA teams to the finals, on opposing alliances. Seeding held true to form as the #1 alliance claimed the victory in two matches.

Thus, CA’s Chargerbots (12010) arrived home with a champion trophy. They also earned the Connect Award, recognizing their work to reach out to the community and share robot love.

Not to be outdone, Team Q (5270) came home with not only the runner-up trophy, but also with the Control Award, which recognizes excellent programming systems.

It was an awesome day for CA robotics and the teams now have 2 weeks to get ready for the State Championship on Feb 10th in Greensboro.

Join us in congratulating the members of CA’s JV Robotics teams:

5270 – Team Q
1. John Kesler (10)
2. Matthew Modi (10)
3. Sheridan Page (10)
4. Myla James (9)
5. Zariah Greene (10)
6. Casey Cervenka (9)
7. Quinn Vaughan (9)
8. Ryan Chen (9)
9. Jono Jenkens (10)
10. Evan Snively (10)
11. Loren Troan (10)
12. Han Zhang (9)
13. Brandon Yi (9)
14. Morgan White (10)

12010 – ChargerBots
1. Scott Matton (10)
2. Felipe Chiavegatto (10)
3. Ethan Norfleet (10)
4. Colin Zhu (10)
5. Harrison Truscott (9)
6. Aidan Sher (10)
7. Sachin Amaresh (10)
8. Sarah Hallman (9)
9. Olivia Zimmerman (9)
10. Anisha Rustogi (9)
11. Zach Wiebe (9)
12. Anna Cheng (10)
13. Obinna Modilim (10)

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