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CA state winner of Math League Contest

April 17, 2017

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 scoring students for the year. Jack Maxfield (’17) amassed a nearly perfect 35/36 points, while Pranay Tankala (’17) and Vincent Wang (’18) scored 34/36 points for the six contests.

Other CA students who have been scoring members (top 5) on one or more contests this year are:

Katie Baker (’17)
Helen Chen (’20)
Thuc Dzu (’18)
Leo de Souza (’18)
Chelsea Fang (’18)
Rishi Goswami (’20)
Tyler Marshall (’17)
Aidan Sher (’20)
Charlotte Waechter (’17)
Lindsay Wrege (’17)

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April 10, 2017

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 15^th out of 59 teams in NC. However, the team was able to secure an invitation due to openings that occur when teams are unable to attend.

CA will join 17 other NC teams competing at the FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) level. The championships include all four levels of FIRST Robotics: FRC, FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge – CA’s JV teams), FLL (FIRST Lego League – CA’s MS teams), and FLL Jr. (grades 2-5), and is a true STEM festival, attracting and hosting teams from all over the world.

The students attending are:

Co-captain Caleb Norfleet ’17 (driver)
Co-captain Thomas Hoffmann ’18 (drive coach)
Ben Humphries ’18 (driver)
Vincent Wang ’18 (pilot)
Shaan Dhawan ’18 (human player)
Josh Pullen ’18 (safety captain)
Shane Hoffman ’18 (media/branding)
Robert Schellenberger ’18 (mascot, scouting)
Ross Matton ’18 (drive coach/human player)
Cameron Fisher ’19 (scouting captain)
Amy Chang ’19 (scouting)
Ethan Norfleet ’20 (scouting)
Chris Toy ’18 (scouting)
Cameron Latta ’17 (scouting)
Scott Matton ’20 (outreach, safety)

Liam Carriker (’17) is going to the championships with his non-CA team, the Tundrabots, that competes at the FTC (our JV) level.

The Cary Academy Fund and specific robotics fundraising helps support great opportunities like this for our students. If you’d like to contribute, please see the Advancement Department.

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Levin’s story takes prize in county contest

April 6, 2017

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 received almost 600 submissions from students who attend 23 different public and private schools throughout Wake County, and 450 of these stories were approved by teachers and scored by judges. Nineteen were selected as winners.

The winning students, along with their parents and teachers, will be honored at the Literary Contest Awards Ceremony on April 18 at the North Carolina Museum of History in downtown Raleigh.

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Econ team takes bronze in Charlotte

April 3, 2017

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 students, while Thomas Hoffmann and Arman Kassam were beginners.

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Chinese program at CA making news

March 29, 2017

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 Library Auditorium. Only 10 students total are in the final! This is the first time CA students participated in this contest. The seven CA students are: Alexandra Ellison, Ellie Johnson, Luke Johnson, Sasha Kostenko, Andrew Lee, Tyler Marshall and Robert Schellenberger.
Sullivan Morgus (’18) has won the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) 2017-18 China full scholarship.
Julian Sodano (’18) is applying for a four-week Chinese-intensive training program in Beijing.
Morgus (’18), Cara Messer (’19), Luke Johnson (’19), and Krishan Guzzo (’19) are the first group of CA Chinese students who are working with a recognized Chinese teacher for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI). Each will do “a live, 20-30 minute telephone conversation” with a certified ACTFL tester.

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Robotics’ second place equals third in states

March 6, 2017

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 seed and had to play against the #3 seed. The alliance partners chosen were Cortechs and Green Hope. All playoff matches are best 2 out of 3 games. The alliance won and moved on to the semis against the #7 seed, whom they beat to move into the finals.

Despite losing the finals, CA won two awards: the Judges Award and Hard Hat Award (a type of safety award). CA also got silver medals for everyone in its alliance. Best of all, CA’s performance in this tournament ranks them 3^rd in the state.

CA’s next tournament is March 24-25 at SE Raleigh Magnet High School, 2600 Rock Quarry Road, Raleigh. Matches run from about 10am-6pm each day.

Team members at this latest event:

Co-captains Caleb Norfleet ’17 (driver)
Co-captain Thomas Hoffmann ’17 (drive coach)
Ben Humphries’18 (driver)
Vincent Wang ’18 (pilot)
Shaan Dhawan ’18 (human player)
Josh Pullen ’18 (safety captain)
Shane Hoffman ’18 (media/branding)
Robert Schellenberger ’18 (mascot, scouting)
Cameron Fisher ’19 (scouting captain)
Amy Chang ’19 (scouting)
Ethan Norfleet ’20 (scouting)

Members unable to attend:

Ross Matton ’18 (outreach captain)
Chris Toy ’18
Jay Chang ’18
Claudia Zimmerman ’19
Cameron Latta ’17

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Four wins for CA at NC German Day

March 3, 2017

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, Katie Grush, Taylor Weber

Karaoke Video: 1st place: Hope Ferris, Rachel May, Rachel George, Georgie Dietz

Karaoke Video: 2nd place: MS Novice German class (all sixth-graders)

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Girls state swim champs, boys runners-up!

February 21, 2017

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 was posted at the TISAC conference meet. The record now belongs to Amy Chang, Emma Zayas, Elena Zayas and Isabella Barnette.

Girls 400-yard freestyle relay – reset the school record that was also posted at the TISAC meet. The record now belongs to Helen Chen, Emma Zayas, Nisma Said and Isabella Barnette.

Boys 200 freestyle relay – STATE CHAMPION RELAY and new school record! Relay members are Will Newman, Josh Pullen, Ben Humphries and Ari Kaufman.

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Two state titles, one 2nd for CA in wrestling

February 20, 2017

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 won the first CA state title of the night. Julian (’18) made quick work out of Charlotte Country Day School’s number one-seeded wrestler, Max Spada, at the 138-pound weight class to pick up the second state title of the night.

Joe McDarris (’18), fashioned his way through the 152-pound bracket getting to finals, losing to Charlotte Latin’s senior, Jack Sobel, and finishing as a state runner-up. Chapman Fitzgerald (’18) finished 4^th in the 132-pound weight class. Osamah Atieh (’19) finished sixth at the 170-pound weight class. Also finishing 6^th for the Chargers were Andrew Lee (’17) at the 182-pound bracket, and Isiah Hoile (’18) at the 195-pound spot.

The CA team once again placed sixth coming within less than 50 points of the top four team spots.

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