By Cate Pitterle, ’20 Every year before holiday break, a Christmas tree appears in the upper school lobby, filled with unconventional ornaments: name tags of children in need. Also, unlike regular ornaments, these tags quickly disappear from the tree, taken by CA students full of holiday spirit. These students then head to the office, where… Read More The Giving Tree: Give Gifts, Give Hope
By McKay Lucas, ’21 The CA Holiday Shoppe is an annual tradition that attracts people from all over the Triangle each year. The event, which ran from Thursday, November 29 to Saturday, December 1 of 2018, showcased the work of over 100 vendors and attracted over 5,000 customers. The Holiday Shoppe was organized by many… Read More Holiday Shoppe Till You Drop
By Erin Singleton, ’20 Cary Academy’s winter athletes have been working hard this season, and all their dedication has been paying off, making the season a successful one on all fronts. CA’s wrestling team remains as strong as ever this season. Home to past individual wrestling state champions, the wrestling program undoubtedly has the… Read More Midway Through the Season, Winter Sports Are Going Strong
By Claire Ferris, ’21 Though the final full week of school before holiday break was shortened due to exciting yet unexpected snow, the Cary Academy Student Council was still hard at work making sure the Upper School students could show their spirit. StuCo took a vote to determine this year’s spirit week themes, adding new… Read More Spirit Week Was Shortened, But CA’s Spirit Wasn’t
Welcome to the first edition of the Campitor for the 2018-2019 school year! It’s just past midterms, and already the trimester has been full of activity– the freshmen are settling into US life, the seniors are applying to college, and everyone is getting into the routine of club meetings and classes and extracurriculars. The Campitor’s… Read More Letter From the Editor
By Erin Singleton, ’20 Cary Academy’s fall athletes have been hard at work since the beginning of August. Though practices began a mere twelve weeks ago, the regular season is already beginning to wind down. The results show that it has indeed been a good season so far for Charger athletes. The Varsity Field Hockey… Read More Fall Sports Update
The Campitor’s Advice Column is back! Whether you’re looking for homework tips or time management strategies, this is the place to be. Ashley Grubstein (’22) answers common questions below: How can you balance extra-curriculars with homework and social life? In my opinion, one of the best ways to balance extra-curriculars with homework and a social life… Read More Advice Column
By Cate Pitterle, ’20 Mr. Rushin’s chemistry classes are known for explosions and endless labs, entertaining lectures and plenty of inside jokes. However, for the first half-trimester of the school year, Mr. Rushin was absent from the classroom, embarking on the trip of a lifetime: hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. The… Read More An Interview with Mr. Rushin
By Claire Ferris, ’21 On the morning of August 28, 2018, instead of driving to school in the glowing morning light and humid air, all four-hundred sixty-eight Upper School students prepared themselves for their respective class trips. Though the school year had just begun, each class approached their trip with optimism and curiosity, using this… Read More US Class Trips
On the evening of September 7th in the Discovery Studio, an eager audience awaited the lectures of ten speakers, all of whom were CA alumni, current students, and faculty. This event was the second TEDxCary Academy event ever held and was just as, if not more, successful than the first. The theme this year was… Read More TEDxCA Sparks Curiosity
Welcome to the 2017-2018 T3 edition of The Campitor! It’s bittersweet to write this last letter from the editor, but I feel confident that I am leaving The Campitor in good hands. I feel good leaving Cary Academy knowing that students aren’t afraid to speak up for what they believe in, no matter what they… Read More Letter from the Editor
This advice column features personal advice for Cary Academy students by Princess Bernard-Oti, ’18, in regards to school-related questions. Her responses are meant to be taken lightheartedly, so please enjoy. How do you deal with stressful situations, such as during exam weeks? Princess: It is important to get a lot of sleep; that… Read More Advice Column Responses
By Hope Ferris, ’18 Friday April 27th, Cary Academy participated in the Day of Silence, a day sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to raise awareness about discrimination against LGBT students. At Cary Academy, students in the upper school had the option to remain silent for the entirety of the day,… Read More Day of Silence
By Cate Pitterle, ’20 April 20th started out like any other day at Cary Academy. But at 10:00 AM, almost 50% of the upper school walked out of class and down to the track for a rally commemorating the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting. The rally also honored the victims of gun violence in… Read More CA Walks Out
By Danielle Carr, ’18 It’s often the little things that matter the most, small touches that have a large impact on someone’s day. This was something understood well by Casey Abernethy (’20), whose final service project for her Social Justice Discovery Term was to install free feminine products in bathrooms around the Triangle. The goal… Read More PTAA Feminine Hygiene Project
By Taylor Timinskas and Hope Ferris, ’18 As a part of the senior year English curriculum, all students complete a senior capstone English project on a topic they are passionate about. The guidelines were simple: a research-intensive project, five weeks of work broken down by weekly guidelines, and criteria for success that we wrote for… Read More Senior Capstone Samples
The week of May 7th, Lily Levin (’19), Krishan Guzzo (’19), and Elizabeth George (’19) organized a Mental Health Awareness week full of activities and fundraisers. The students made a website (which can be accessed here) for students to access general information and resources in regards to maintaining a “healthy state of mind”. There are… Read More Mental Health Awareness Week
By Claire Ferris, ’21 With the new building in progress, announcements of retirement for beloved teachers, and the new schedule that was implemented this year, Cary Academy has entered a period of growth and change. The English department will also be updating its curriculum for the 2019-2020 school year, according to English Department Chair German… Read More English Department Changes
By Danielle Carr, ’18 This year, Coexist has once again been the center of student diversity events at Cary Academy. As its own club, it launched the lunchtime Symposium Series to dive into artistic duty and identity, and it established Courageous Conversations to debrief about sensitive topics. Coexist also worked to unite the affinity groups… Read More Coexistence at CA
Welcome to the Winter 2017-2018 edition of the Campitor! As the second trimester comes to a close, we look back on our accomplishments of the past few months: seniors wait for college decisions, previous club events are successful, and the winter sports season comes to a close. We also look forward, as we continue our… Read More Letter From the Editor
By Taylor Timinskas, ’18 One of my favorite volunteering services is helping out at the Animal Protection Society of Durham. Motivated by Cary Academy’s Key Club to find new volunteer organizations, I volunteered at a fundraiser where I met a group of dogs looking for a family. I immediately connected with the volunteers working there; they took the… Read More Animal Protection Society
By Danielle Carr, ’18 After the devastating attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it was immediately evident that this one felt different. It has been 19 years since Columbine, and finally the students have begun to advocate for themselves, realizing that without constant pressure, pressure no adult seemed to provide, Congress… Read More CA Walkouts
By Cate Pitterle (’20) The Chinese exchange students visited CA last month, spending six days with their CA host families before continuing on to New York. The exchange students went to classes with their host students on Monday, February 12th, then spent the next two days in the Raleigh area, going to museums, seeing the… Read More Chinese Exchange Students at CA
By Aesha Desai, ’18 This interview is the second piece in a series on dining at CA – check out our first edition for an opinion article related to this topic of discussion. On February 20th, Danielle Carr (’18) and I conducted an interview with Chef Sam Monsour about vegetarian and vegan food representation as part of CA dining and its diversification. Chef… Read More The Vegetarian Voice – Part 2
by Danielle Carr, ’18 As college application season comes to a close for seniors, we want to pass on what we’ve learned in this process to the juniors, who are just now starting their search. This process may seem daunting at the start, but we promise you it will be successful, and you’ll even have fun along… Read More 10 Tips for Your College Search
Winter Sports Update by Princess Bernard Oti, ’18 As we transition from the winter sports season to spring sports, it is always a good idea to reflect on and evaluate the amazing accomplishments each team has achieved. Starting with Varsity Girls Basketball, this team’s winning and losing record does not reflect how hard and with how much effort each member played this season. This… Read More Winter Sports Update
By Tori Borlase, ’18 Through a collaboration with Upper School club Citizenship 101 and grassroots organization Triangle People Power, Lily Levin and I were able to organize a schoolwide voter registration drive this past January. Over the course of a week, we registered more than fifty people across three grades. Because North Carolina allows those between… Read More Voter Registration Drive
Hello Campitor readers – have any questions you need answered? Next edition, we are bringing back our advice column! The questions can be anything about life as a CA student, from managing an advanced course load to what to wear to prom. Be sure to keep questions school-appropriate, and use the form below to submit… Read More Advice Column
Welcome to the first edition of the Campitor for the 2017-2018 school year! As CA moved beyond its twentieth year and into its twenty-first, the first trimester back was a whirlwind of activity. With four new Upper School teachers, a reorganized schedule, and the start of construction on the brand new science building, there is a great… Read More Letter From the Editor
by Cate Pitterle, ’20 Recent discoveries in astronomy could change the scientific world forever. Almost every space observatory in the world collects light, but some objects in the universe—such as black holes—can’t be seen through these methods, so scientists created revolutionary technology that allowed them to “hear” the universe—and just recently, they got their wish… Read More Gravitational Waves: How Einstein Was Right Again
by Princess Bernard-Oti, ’18 The Triangle Diversity Alliance conference is hosted by a local Independent school every year. This year, C.A. students attended the conference on October 25th at Carolina Friends School, with a theme of “Allies and Activism”. CFS Head of School Karen Cumberbatch began the conference speaking on what it means to be… Read More Triangle Diversity Alliance Conference
by Taylor Timinskas and Aesha Desai, ’18 This article is the first opinion article in a series on dining at CA – we will continue with interviews and discussions in the next edition. There is a great variety of non-meat eaters at our school ranging from pescatarians (people who refrain from all meat except fish) and vegans (who refrain from all animal… Read More The Vegetarian Voice
by Taylor Timinskas, ’18 For the 2017-2018 academic year, a new club was introduced to the Upper School. The Entrepreneurship and Business Management club provides a new platform for our students to create their own start-ups. The club uses a year-long process to help individuals or teams to develop, launch, and improve their own businesses… Read More Bring out the Entrepreneurs
by Hope Ferris, ’18 This past summer, I spent two weeks with two CA peers, Evan Ehrhardt and Ziyana Greene, and seventy students from all around the world at the Student Global Leadership Institute hosted by the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. We tackled the topic of peace together with field trips, speakers, workshops, and… Read More Student Global Leadership Institute
By Claire Ferris, ’21 This year at CA, we have four new teachers in the Upper School: Naomi Barlaz, Freya Kridle, Jamie Roszel, and Marisa Scoville. Ms. Barlaz teaches history, Ms. Kridle teaches Spanish, Mr. Roszel teaches English, and Ms. Scoville teaches science. Although we’ve already had a trimester to get to know these teachers,… Read More Getting to Know the New Teachers
by Taylor Timinskas, ’18 Starting the year off with the perfect tune, the Glee Club has brought a new singing community to our campus. Inspired by both the television series Glee and their own love for performing, seniors Lucy Daley and Aesha Desai were motivated to make the club happen. The musical group’s main focus… Read More Gleeful for Glee Club
by Danielle Carr, ’18 For students, it seems so difficult to enact change beyond Cary Academy. Our lives are so tethered to what we do at school that it’s sometimes hard to become involved with outside politics; however, Lily Levin, along with a friend, Sarah Beck have started a club called Triangle People Power to… Read More Triangle People Power
Every single edition of The Campitor that I have been able to work on surprises me. Each article moves above and beyond, each story is more compelling than the one before, and each writer brings their own unique perspective. This edition features pieces about local politics, club updates, and opinion pieces. As usual, please feel… Read More Letter From the Editor
by Arman Kassam, ’18 It’s always a bit funny when you investigate CA’s history. A quick Google search uncovers what the very first OneWeek was all about: “The 2009 – 10 academic year marked the beginning of an upper school tradition called “One CA Week.” Upper school affinity groups, through a consortium called COEXIST, planned… Read More One Week Reflection
During a film unit in the Advanced American Literature class, students wrote reviews of classic American movies. We’ve gathered a collection for you here, ranging from thriller to spy to classic ’80s films – enjoy!
