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STUDENT COUNCIL’S BURRITO BREAKFAST

(Ella Morris’22/Media) On Tuesday, February 18, our Upper School Student Council served breakfast burritos from 7:45 to 9:15 a.m. to any hungry student coming through the doors of the senior lounge. The breakfast station was intended to reduce the number of Vikings entering their first-period class with an empty stomach. Representatives Davey Agrawal’22, Ethan Kim’23,

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WHAT THE 2020 CENSUS MEANS FOR COLUMBUS ACADEMY

Alaska’s vast, sparsely settled areas, like Toksook Bay are the first to be counted in the 2020 Census. (United States Census Bureau) The United States Census operates every ten years under the aptly named Bureau of the Census to record everyone living in the country and gather important statistical information that informs decision-making at the

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Jump with Heart

Seniors spin jump rope for their kindergarten buddies. (Courtesy/Jeremy Morgan) We are never too young to care for our hearts. On Tuesday, February 11, kindergarteners paired up with their senior buddies in the new field house for an afternoon of recreation. As February contains Valentine’s Day and is the month of heart awareness, it seemed

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Regan Cornelius: State Player of the Year

(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

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Art Students Visit Chicago 

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

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GPT-2: A Wild Card of an AI

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

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CA Internship Applications Coming to a Close

Internship applications close on Wednesday, February 12. (Courtesy/ US Air Force) For the third straight year, upper school students can participate in the Columbus Academy Internship Program. Founded in 2018 by Jennifer Conti, the program continues to grow. This year students will have the chance to choose from 45 different positions, ranging from botany to

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English Department’s Blast from the Past

Dr. Morris types a quote on his Olympia. (Sarah Neltner’20/Media) After its invention in 1867, the typewriter was revolutionary for writers all across the world and made the creation of documents more efficient, and in turn, it became widely popular.  As more advanced technology began to emerge in the 1980s, these machines became things of