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Adam and Braden Overett: Fame on ice and onstage

Amy VenturaJanuary 7, 2020

You may have seen Adam Overett ’96 in the stage version of Dirty Dancing or in the Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza. Or you may have enjoyed the theatri...

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Maggie Dickman ’08: Saying ‘Yes’ to new experiences

Vicki HildnerJanuary 6, 2020

Maggie Dickman In many ways, Maggie Dickman ’08 could not be in a more different educational environment today than the one she experienced as a super-lifer...

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Paige Maney ’11: Following her improv dreams to Second City

Amy VenturaJanuary 6, 2020

It was her very first acting class in Chicago. She’d moved there after grad school with dreams of a comedy career. The instructor began leading the class throug...

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Class of 2019 Care Packages

Sue BurleighDecember 31, 2019

With the help of Alumni Parent Volunteers, members of the Colorado Academy Class of 2019 received Care Packages from the CA Alumni Association before their firs...

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Young Alumni Lunch

Sue BurleighDecember 31, 2019

Since 2007, Colorado Academy’s college-age alumni have returned to campus to join faculty and coaches for lunch at Café CA before the winter break. For faculty,...

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Alumni Skating Party

Sue BurleighDecember 31, 2019

The annual Colorado Academy Alumni Skating Party, an 18-year-old tradition, saw alumni from the 1970s to late 2000s enjoying the festivities, fun, and food on a...

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Alumni Happy Hour

Sue BurleighNovember 21, 2019

Colorado Academy alumni met for an after-work get-together on October 24, 2019, to unwind, connect, and catch up with fellow alums. The location was Punch Bowl ...

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East Coast Alumni celebrate connections

Renee RockfordNovember 13, 2019

Less than 24 hours after a drenching nor'easter rolled up the East Coast, 50 Colorado Academy alumni gathered for a mid-October reception in New York City. The ...

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Former classmates become an archaeologist and a paleontologist

Amy VenturaOctober 10, 2019

There is almost total silence. Only the low hum of his air tank and the tiny roar of the billions of gallons of water surrounding him. Nick Bartos ’09 works ste...

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Meet your Alumni Board

Sue BurleighOctober 8, 2019

For 24 Colorado Academy alumni, their connection to CA continues after they leave campus. They serve on the Alumni Board administering the activities of the Col...

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Hannah Williams ’10: From Colorado Academy to IDEO

Molly BlakeOctober 8, 2019

Hannah Williams ‘10 believes that design thinking, a human-centered approach to innovation, is eventually going to be a part of nearly every industry. Recently,...

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Anshu Bhatia ’06: A straight line from Seventh Grade arts

Vicki HildnerOctober 8, 2019

It was Fall of 2000 when a young Anshu Bhatia ‘06 arrived at Colorado Academy in the Seventh Grade and discovered—somewhat to his dismay—that he would be requir...

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Anna Schwartz ’13: CA lessons come full circle to Horizons

Renee RockfordOctober 8, 2019

Outcomes for Horizons at Colorado Academy are often reported in gains in reading and math scores after each summer’s six-week program. Tougher to meas...

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Allison Kaptur ’05: ‘Everyone was in my corner’

Molly BlakeAugust 7, 2019

Many people don’t think that software engineers write much other than incomprehensible letters strung together to create code. Not so, says Allison Kaptur ‘0...

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Alumni Career Panel – Finding Your Path

Sue BurleighJuly 9, 2019

For the Senior class, Launch Week is a chance to prepare for life after Colorado Academy, and alumni have become an important part of the process. Six alumni pr...

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CA East Coast Alumni, save this date!

Renee RockfordJuly 8, 2019

Colorado Academy Head of School Dr. Mike Davis invites you to an alumni event on Thursday, October 17, 2019 in the Big Apple. Join Dr. Davis and Paul Raether ’6...

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Alumni celebrate Cindy Jordan

Vicki HildnerJuly 8, 2019

The several hundred people who attended the Colorado Academy Alumni-Faculty party after Giant Relay Day will long remember the evening for so many unforgettable...

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College Office honors first generation college-bound students

CommunicationsJuly 8, 2019

Colorado Academy’s College Office established a new tradition at CA this year, recognizing students who are among the first in their families to pursue four-yea...

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Soaring with First Lieutenant Maggie Sherrill Nicklas, USAF

Molly BlakeJuly 8, 2019

Long before First Lieutenant Maggie Sherrill Nicklas climbed into the F-16 fighter jet she flies for the United States Air Force, she was just a littl...

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In the trenches of a national crisis with Dr. Alexis Ritvo

Amy VenturaJuly 8, 2019

Alexis Ritvo ’01, MD, MPH Psychiatry runs in the veins of Alexis Ritvo ’01, MD, MPH. The daughter of two psychiatrists and the seventh psychiatris...

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Spring in the College Counseling Office

Sonia AroraJuly 2, 2019

In the College Counseling Office, we race to the finish line each spring as Colorado Academy Seniors make final college decisions and prepare for graduation fes...

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