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2024 Senior Projects Showcase CA Students’ Love of Learning
This spring, 38 Concord Academy 12th graders demonstrated their love of learning by completing senior projects. These self-designed, faculty-supported programs offered students one-of-a-kind educational experiences. This year's presentations on May 14 in the Student Health and Athletic Center exemplified these seniors’ creativity, interdisciplinary thinking, and technical skills.
read moreCA Honors Journalist Richard Read ’75 with the 2024 Joan Shaw Herman Award
On May 10, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Read ’75 accepted the Joan Shaw Herman Award for Distinguished Service at an all-school assembly. The Joan Shaw Herman Award—the only award CA gives—underscores CA’s mission of doing good work in service to others.
read moreChemistry for Change
This summer, Taylor and Francis will release two open-access textbooks by Will Tucker, head of Concord Academy’s Science Department: one on general and one on organic chemistry. Jake Klineman ’25 lent a student perspective to editing the general chemistry book. Supported by the Concord Academy Class of 1972 Green Seed Fund and the Academic Office, these free digital textbooks promote green chemistry principles, emphasizing energy efficiency, renewable resources, and pollution prevention.
read moreComposer-in-Residence Láura Macias Creates an Evocative Desert Soundscape in a New Work for CA Musicians
Using unconventional techniques, Macias collaborated with student musicians to evoke the heat and allure of the desert landscape, creating a transformative experience for the performers and audience alike.
read moreHall Fellow, Caitlin FitzGerald ’02, Speaks
For six decades, Concord Academy has honored distinguished individuals with the Hall Fellowship. Today, we welcomed accomplished actress and filmmaker Caitlin FitzGerald ’02, who shared insights from her entertainment career and reflected on her CA experience.
read moreCurating Concord’s History
On April 1, The Concord Museum welcomed eager Concord Academy families to its newest special exhibition What Makes History? The exhibition explores local historical narratives and their connections to national and international history through the lenses of object collecting, preservation, and storytelling. Students in Kim Frederick’s Spring 2024 U.S.: Public History: Tour Guide course researched and wrote the labels that contextualized the artifacts and presented them from a new perspective.
read moreCA Poets Investigate Poetic Lineage and the Creative Process
On March 27, three poets with deep connections to Concord Academy returned to share their creative work. Former CA teacher Cammy Thomas P’08 and alums Soren Stockman ’07 and Chessy Normile ’09 read from their books of poems and provided insights into their writing processes.
read moreStudents Explore the Art of Storytelling with Author Jennifer De Leon
Author Jennifer De Leon shared her journey as a writer and her passion for diverse narratives during a visit to the classes of CA English faculty members Alyse Ruiz-Selsky ’05 and Nick Hiebert on March 6. Students had been reading her book White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, and Writing and had the opportunity to engage in conversation about it. Reflecting on her experience writing it, De Leon said, “The ability to be vulnerable and brave takes time, but I realized the only way out is through.”
read more2024 Winter Athletics Season Recap
CA teams enjoyed a very successful winter season! Multiple teams and individual athletes excelled at the Eastern Independent League (EIL) and New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) championships. Go Green!
read moreA Journey of Expression: CA Dance Project’s Winter Performance
The CA Dance Project winter performance showcases the diversity of the dance program. Choreographed by dance faculty Rika Okamoto and Alexander Brady, the numbers Turn! Turn! Turn! and The Rite of Spring explore movement through two distinctive periods and perspectives.
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