This feature’s contributor is posted on our Faculty and Staff column.(Courtesy/Peggy Sutton) Unless you are a movie buff, you may not remember the 1990 film Home Alone, now with sequels released through 2002. In the earliest version, the family of eight-year-old Kevin accidentally abandons him at home while they head off on vacation. The youngster…

(Photo/Mr. L’Hommedieu. Edited by Josh Tu’22/Staff) On January 29, 2019, MAX Field Hockey announced its state-player honorees. Among them was junior Regan Cornelius, recognized as Ohio Player of the Year.  Before the 2019-2020 fall season, Cornelius was also named the state’s preseason player of the year.  In her high school career, Cornelius is a three-time…

Cloud Gate, an iconic Chicago landmark and art piece. (Carolyn Vaziri ’22/Co-editor-in-chief) On Saturday, February 15, a group of upper school students and several of our faculty set out early on Columbus Academy’s inaugural Chicago Art Trip organized by the Fine Arts Department.  The first agenda item for the sightseers after arriving in the city…

AI Dungeon, a silly text adventure generator, is perhaps the most well known application of GPT-2. (James Cao’20/Tech editor) Back in February 2019, a research lab called OpenAI announced it had created a powerful machine learning, text-generating system called Generative Pre-trained Transformer-2 (GPT-2). Fearing of misuse, OpenAI didn’t release its full version to the public…

Gyvnn Mendenhall’22 in practice. (Sarah Neltner ’20/Media).   Our wrestling team honored Sam Lichten at Senior Night on Wednesday, February 12, when the Vikes took down Grandview Heights but lost to River Valley. Academy had a fantastic showing on Saturday, February 15, at the MSL Tournament. Gyvnn Mendenhall’22 took first place, while juniors Chris Sugar and…

Claire Richardson’23 preparing to do a flip-turn. (Andrew Barren’22/Media editor) On Wednesday, February 12, the Academy swim teams splashed into the district finals at McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion, with the women taking 3rd overall and the men finishing 6th. The senior-heavy group of Annalise Grammel ‘20, Lauren Klinefelter ’22, Taylor Warren ’20, and Abby Yakam ’20…

(Suzy L’Hommedieu’21. (Josh Tu’21/Staff) On Friday, February 14, our boys and girls played in their first round of the CBJ Cup tournament, the Capital Hockey Conference’s annual tournament to determine the winner of the conference. Playing at the Ice Haus, attached to Nationwide Arena, the 14 seeded Vikes took on 11 seeded Springboro. The game…

Sophomore Claudia Warstler goes in for a lay-up. (Liesel Goldfarb’22/Media) On Tuesday, February 11, the girls basketball suffered a hard-fought loss against the Northridge Vikings, 57-50.  It was a game of runs, as CA jumped out to an early 9-1 lead behind the play of sophomore Sophie Spolter and junior Kayla McClendon. But Northridge fought…

Sophmore Tanner Compton leaps for a layup during Tuesday’s home game.(Andrew Barren’22/Media editor) On Tuesday, February 11, Academy hosted Buckeye Valley, which is third-ranked in the MSL. Knowing it was in for a challenge, the team wanted to get off to a hot start, which it did by jumping out to an early 13-8 lead. The…

(Courtesy/Nikki Turley’21) The striking Vikings finished their season on February 14 at sectionals. The boys finished twenty-first, with Vincent White’21 advancing to districts by placing 35th. White had 146, 175 and 152. Donovan Simpson’20 was next, with 154 in the first two games and 113 the third. Jacob Mowery’23 closed his impressive season with 134,…