Summer reading books from our library libguides. (Courtesy/Gwen Nzimiro) As customary during our final week of classes, students met with their summer reading groups to discuss the assignments. Academy’s summer reading program provides a unique opportunity for students to engage in literature over the summer. Many of the group assignments involve sharing and discussing certain…

A section of the mural in various stages of progress. (Grace Harrison’20/Staff) Beginning mid-May, a group of teens were hard at work painting four panels of a mural at the home of Laurie Van Balen, director of the Columbus Crossing Borders Project, the organization who featured an art exhibit at Academy last December. Van Balen…

Two of the Falcon Heavy’s side boosters successfully land. (Unsplash, CC0) The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, more commonly known as SpaceX, has made it publicly known that allowing humans to live in an interplanetary fashion—along with making space travel more efficient—is its main goal. As of late, the company has experienced an unprecedented amount of…

Junior Ryan Milbourne enjoys Sophomore Hanna Yakoob’s Where’s Waldo game. (Jenny L’Hommedieu’19/Media) As students and faculty packed into the Dining Hall for Academy’s fifth annual Computer Science Fair on May 23, they observed the end results of computer science students’ weeks of hard work.  In between bites of Whit’s custard, students viewed projects ranging from an 80’s…

Flavors galore at Johnsons. (Eliana Jenkins’20/Staff) There’s no better way to start the summer with an ice cream cone, and Johnson’s Ice Cream, a new addition on Main Street in New Albany, serves it well. Johnson’s atmosphere is welcoming and summer-oriented. And its wide variety of flavors, from “PB Chocolate Tornado” to “Blueberry Pie,” make…

(Courtesy/Student Council’s Moodle Page) Student Council elections provide a chance for the student body to choose how they want to be represented, and this year’s elected representatives are sure to maintain excellent leadership and bring new ideas for the upper school student body.  Davey Agrawal will be the Freshmen President, having run against Russel Ahmed,…

  Sophomore Andrew Swartz grapples for possession. (Sarah Neltner’20/Media staff)   After topping Oakwood to open the postseason, the CA boys lacrosse team fell to DeSales in the second round of the regional tournament.   The #10 seed Vikings traveled to Oakwood on Monday, May 14, and used a late offensive flurry to edge the…

Senior Muriel Goldfarb blazes around the turn. (Chris Heermann’18/Media editor) The Academy girls track team traveled to Watkins Memorial for the district meet, competing in the field events on Tuesday, May 15, running preliminaries on Thursday, May 17, and securing second place after the finals on Saturday, May 19. The Vikings were outstanding throughout the…

  In 1916, Paul Schoedinger, a senior at Columbus Academy, created the motto “In Quest of the Best” for the first hard-bound edition of the yearbook,The Caravel. The school community took a liking to Schoedinger’s mantra, and it was eventually adopted as Academy’s official statement.  Ever since, “In Quest of the Best” has served as…

(Public Domain Pictures) Next year, junior and senior English students will have the opportunity to enroll in a new semester-long business class taught by Ms. Reifeis. The class will be student-driven with a focus on collaboration, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving.  The inspiration for this course began with a program called Wildfire Education run by…