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…

(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,…

  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…

Nick Robie’18 with Charlie Sabgir’20 and juniors Liam McCann and Ethan Nankervis. (Courtesy/Christy Bening) On Sunday, May 20, from 11 AM – 2 PM CA hosted the new counselor orientation in Academy’s dining hall. New counselors, Charlie Sabgir, Ethan Nankervis, and Liam McCann, were joined by MDA veteran and newly appointed MDA Cabin Leader, Nick…

Intel, AMD, Nvidia, ARM; no CPU is safe from Spectre. (Unsplash, CC0) On January 3, 2018, three central processing units’ (CPU) vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown were announced to the public (two types of Spectre and one of Meltdown). Any device with a CPU is a possible target, putting most devices in danger of…

Google Home, which implements Google Assistant, could soon be used to make autonomous phone calls. unsplash.com. From May 8-10, Google hosted its annual Google I/O, a developer festival, in Mountain View, California. Each year, this event features in-depth sessions aimed at building web, mobile, and business applications with Google. This year’s festival introduced a new Android…

CSBGL students Olivia Ryan’18 and juniors Rekha Marar, Himaja Reddy, Mercedes Crestanello, Julia Gurevitz, Samantha Kass and senior, Maisy Kelemen present in the end-of-year conference at UPenn (Courtesy/Beckett Broh) For the past ten years, The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education has run a research consortium of faculty and students called the Center for…