The universal symbol for bitcoins. (Unsplash, CC0) In 2008, a person with the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper about a payment system that was independent of any central authority and was semi-anonymous. This payment system and its currency was and still is referred to as Bitcoin. Traditional online payment methods and the Bitcoin…

Quad in Lights for Seniors. Esther Lawrence: “Some of my best CA memories were made tonight.” (Courtesy/Ms. Reifeis) When Upper School Head, Cory Izokaitis, approved a Senior Lock-in for 2016, little did she know this event would be a favorite of the senior class. With hours of behind-the-scenes planning, Izokaitis and Student Council advisors, Freda Eden and…

Students during Mix-it-up day in with Ms.  Bening’s advisory. (Julia Gurevitz’19/Media) Keeping one of the key promises from their election speech after weeks of careful planning, Student Body President, Shreyah Mohanselvan, and Vice President, Nick Robie, brought back the old Academy tradition of Mix-It-Up Day.  During activities period this past Friday, February 9, Upper School…

Rest. Rest. Rest. (Pixabay) While thousands get sick with the flu virus each year, this year has been particularly hard-hitting and on record the worst since the 2009 outbreak. A frightening 63 pediatric deaths have occurred along with the highest hospitalization rates recorded in nearly a decade throughout the country, due to the H3N2 strain…

Darnell Heywood. Courtesy/Cindy Wilson Written by co-editors Abby Jeffers, Jane Li, and Georgia Tuckerman To most high schoolers, the College Board represents much of what they dread: SATs, APs, and the college application process as a whole. These tests and scores, however, are only part of what they do. Although those assessments seem like unnecessary…

Pexels, CC0) Caption: These two vulnerabilities can leak information from almost any type of device. Increasing worries about two aptly named vulnerabilities in hardware called Spectre and Meltdown are problematic because hackers can exploit them to gain private data from almost any type of device. Spectre is a vulnerability in hardware that allows attackers to…

Zach Imwalle from the Office of Franklin County’s Prosecuting Attorney, Ron O’Brien, speaks to Upper School about smart cyber communication. (Chris Heerman’18/Media Editor) You can’t control what you receive, but you can control what you do about it.  This is the urgent message that law enforcement is currently attempting to spread to teenagers on the…

(Unsplash, CC0) Caption: Protests at Telecom Prom After December 14th, the repeal for net neutrality started, but its effects aren’t really showing. As it turns out, Google, Netflix, Facebook, and other large tech industries are against the repeal as these companies could face heavy charges from ISP’s to not be throttled. ISP’s are also stating…

(Pixabay) The CA Debate team sent 9 pairs to the inaugural Olentangy High School Invitational on Saturday, January 20. After nearly six hours of competition, the duo of co-captain Kyle Channell’19 and Grant Hillmann’20 tied for the second most team points in the Public Forum category. All pairs competed in Public Forum, debating the January…

 Google’s self driving car during testing. (Flickr.com( Companies like Tesla, Ford, General Motors, Google, and Toyota took this year’s Consumer Electronic Show by storm as they brought their plan to facilitate safe and driver-less transportation to light. Out of these companies, Google has done the most on-road testing with its spinoff company Waymo, but none…