Senior Neena Baliga invites Ms. Garita, teachers, and staff to lunch. Riley Hennessy’20’/Media With busy schedules and daily distractions, it can sometimes be easy to take our faculty and staff at Academy for granted. From helping us with our learning to making us better citizens, Academy’s wonderful teachers, coaches, staff, and administrators are the foundation…

National Mall. Paul Hansen’19/Media Over four days this past weekend, thousands of the world’s hopeful future leaders travelled to Washington D.C. to attend the 55th annual North American Invitational Model United Nations, or NAIMUN. Among them were a handful of delegates representing Columbus Academy. NAIMUN is a prestigious United Nations simulation for high schoolers hosted…

Little Dribblers Awe the Crowd. Paul Hansen’19/Media On Friday, February 23, students packed into “The Mack” bleachers to celebrate the end of our winter sports season and to hype up for the upcoming spring term.  To the raucous cheers reverberating through the gym, senior Vikings Luke Tiberi and Ruby Moss listed off the numerous impressive…

Honors Chinese 4 students kick off  assembly with dragon dance. Julia Gurevitz’19/Media Earlier this month, millions of Chinese people around the world welcomed the beginning of a 15-day long celebration of the new year (based on the Lunar calendar) with gatherings, festivals, and of course, delicious food.  According to Chinese astrology, each year is represented…

(Pixabay) On October 17, 2017, a group of Columbus Academy upper schoolers launched into an annual series of 6 separate contests, collectively known as the Ohio Math League Competition.  The rules are as follows: Each contest is composed of 6 questions, covering material from basic algebra to calculus. With the optional use of a calculator,…

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…