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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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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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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January 22, 2018
Congratulations to the eight students were named to the All-District Band or All-Region Jazz Band, a tie for best in Cary Academy history. Auditions were held on January 13, 2018 in Greensboro.
All-District Bands 2018
Ian Fan (’24) – clarinet
Rishi Goswami (’20) – clarinet
Aarav Gupta (’22) – trumpet
Abby Li (’22) – flute
Max Li (’23) – clarinet
Emily Wang (’22) – flute
All-Region Jazz Band 2018
Luke Ramee (’24) – trombone
Charlie Zoetrmulder (’23) – trombone
Learn more about the process here.
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January 8, 2018
Elizabeth Maydew (’19), a Cary Girl Scout and junior at CA, earned the Girl Scouts’ Gold Award for her “Culture Club” in support of refugee students at Athens Drive High School. She previously worked with ESL students and wanted to broaden this project to be applicable to refugees. Fewer than 6% of Scouts win the Gold Award annually.
See the feature in the Cary Citizen.
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December 11, 2017
Senior Cole Spector has won the Congressional App Challenge for the NC-02 District. His app "Speech Timer" was developed in an ADV Topics class for computer programming at CA.
The Congressional App Challenge will invite winners from across the country to showcase their apps to the Members of Congress and members of the tech community at #HouseOfCode, a reception on Capitol Hill to be held in April 2018. Their work is eligible to be featured for one year on the permanent display in the U.S. Capitol Building and on the House.gov website. Each winning student will also be awarded $250 in Amazon Web Service credits, generously donated by Amazon Web Services.
You can see Cole's video explaining his app on YouTube. More about the contest can be found here.
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November 15, 2017
On October 23, 2017, the CA German program traveled to Broughton High School to see the German hip hop band "EinsHoch6" on their first US tour! They rocked the house full of NC students of German, and students were able to get selfies and autographs from the band following the concert. The band also conducted a workshop for German teachers last Saturday, where Frau Verhoeven learned to rap and Frau Burgbacher provided dance support. Many thanks to EinsHoch6, Deutsche Welle, and the American Association of Teachers of German for organizing and sponsoring the tour!!
Frau Verhoeven is interviewed by the Deutsche Welle media outlet, organizers of the EinsHoch6-Bandtagebuch project.
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November 9, 2017
Olivia Frazier and Trey Murphy signed their National Letters of Intent Nov 8 in the Fitness Center lobby. Through the signings, Olivia has committed to playing Field Hockey at the University of Richmond and Trey will continue his basketball career with the Rice Owls. A tremendous turnout in the FC, as students and faculty members shared the moment with both athletes. The school will hold another signing ceremony in the spring for all athletes who have committed to compete with their college teams next year.
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October 27, 2017
Nate Alexander ('20) won the Hyperspace Ventures NextGen Pitch Competition on Oct 24. Nate won a first place prize of $1,000 for his Bubbyl medical phone case. The competition, open to all CA upper school students, was sponsored by Hyperspace Ventures and Taylor Meyer ('08). Eleven teams competed in the evening event, with second place going to Niki Vilas Boas ('20) and Becca Segal ('20) for their Wotter swimwear line and third place going to Mila Patel ('21) for her pre-imaging microchip idea. Teams were judged by a panel of local entrepreneurs.
Pictured below is Nate getting his big check and Rachel May during her pitch for a device that sends reminders to your phone when you physically get near the device.
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