CA families throw colors and celebrate Holi. (Panya Bhinder’21/Staff) On Sunday, May 5, from 2 to 4 pm, Columbus Academy families came together at the Lower School playground to celebrate the Indian festival of Holi, ushering in spring with love and color. Traditionally held in mid-March, Holi, also called the festival of colors, commemorates the…

Hayden Compton’19 slams a dunk during April Absurdity’s finals. (Josh Tu’21/Staff) April Absurdity started two weeks ago, with teams getting eliminated left and right throughout the month. As the school’s parody of March Madness, April Absurdity is a popular tradition that Miles Razek’20 started a few years ago and has kept running ever since. Teams…

On April 22, a professional develoopment day, CA’s Blood Drive still collected 16 units of blood. The donations have the potential to save 48 lives.  Carolyn Zhang and Lindsey Dunlap in partnership with the Red Cross, ran the Blood Drive, a service tradition that can save up to hundreds of lives a year.  This month,…

A Passover seder plate commemorating the Exodus. (Flickr) Starting at sunset on Friday, April 19, and ending in the evening of Saturday, April 27, the Jewish holiday of Passover celebrates the Israelites’ freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt. Passover, or Pesach, commemorates the Book of Exodus. Each year, families around the world tell the story of the…

AS in years past, the service fair attracts a large crowd. (Marcus Grewal’19/Staff) Columbus Academy has always emphasized the value of community service, and this year’s Service Fair was no different. Held on Thursday, April 18, the event took place by the fireside of the school’s Dining Hall. At Academy, each high school student completes…

Top: Progress on the new field house and addition to the Athletic Entrance. Walls are begining to go up, and the foundation is being prepared!  Bottom left: The roof and walls continue to go up on the addition to the Weight Room!  Bottom right: Construction of the theater is set to begin next week, following…

All of us. All in: Mrs. Carter and her middle schoolers cheering at the drop off circle! (Sarah Neltner ’20/Media) On April 4-5, Columbus Academy hosted its third day of #AllDay4CA, the annual event that began in the spring of 2017.  The 25-hour event brings Vikings of all generations together by contributions to the Annual…

This week’s construction updates. (Andrew Barren’22/Media) Top left: Progress on addition to new field house and athletic entrance area.  Top right: Preparations for the addition and remodeling of theatre-set to begin following Academy’s production of Rent. (April 18-20) Bottom: Additions to Weight Room and Athletic Entrance areas. 

The cancelled AirPower that was temporarily on the Apple website. (Apple) Mid-March, Apple released both good and bad news: first, the release of its multiple updated devices- the latter, its highly anticipated AirPower’s cancellation. Between March 18 and 20, an updated iPad Air, iPad Mini, and two iMacs along with the second generation of AirPods…