The 5UP (Five Minutes Up) program at Colorado Academy is a series of talks with the goal of featuring voices of our community in a shortened TED talk set up. E...
Forbes Cone, CA’s Director of Experiential Education Program and coach of CA’s Climbing Team, talks to accomplished CA student climber Alena Holbert. Holbert is...
Colorado Academy welcomed four exchange students in October from Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow, Scotland. The students attended classes in the Upper Sch...
Three Colorado Academy fifth graders are home after taking part in CA’s oldest student exchange program in a more than three-decade partnership with Erskine Ste...
Beginning in the Fifth Grade, Colorado Academy dusts off the luggage, prints the boarding passes, and checks to be sure that the toothbrush is packed—because th...
By Forbes Cone, Director of Experiential Education
On hikes to the climbing crag with my two-year-old son, our progress is slowed by his distractions of leav...
CA’s Global Exchange offerings will expand this coming year to include a Middle School exchange in the Dominican Republic, and new Upper School programs in both...
The Chinese saying goes that "It is better to travel ten thousand miles than to read ten thousand books." In accordance with that saying, 17 Upper School Chines...
This spring, Colorado Academy, through its global travel and exchange program, took students to Cuba. The trip came just weeks after the U.S. and Cuba signed an...
After an early morning we all arrived in Costa Rica safely and with a smile on our faces. All of the kids are doing well and looking forward to a long night of ...
We packed up and left the ecolodge yesterday and made it to Paraiso without any problems. We are
about 20 minutes away from Chilamate and already started to ge...
Our first full day in Costa Rica was fun-filled and jam-packed. We woke to the sound of howler monkeys in the trees, and had a delicious breakfast before headin...
Wow! And wow! The trip to Cuba was fantastic and there aren't enough words to describe this wonderful little gem of a country. From historic Havana, to a provi...
The following blog was written as part of a collaboration between students Bo Dodge; Kenneal Patterson; Cecilia Needham; Jacqueline Patel; Audrey Groves; Li...
For the Turkish exchange students that recently visited Colorado Academy from Uskudar American Academy in Istanbul, the most surprising aspect of the trip was a...
By senior Matthew MacPhail
We'd be lying if we said we were ready to leave Scotland. These two weeks have been an amazing experience, and it is a little hard...
By senior Dana Greenleaf
Settling in to life here has been as easy as eating haggis, a traditional Scottish pudding of sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, which ...
This weekend in Scotland we did everything from taking a trip to Hawaii (via a Hawaiian-themed birthday party) to sipping afternoon tea at the Dome in Edinburgh...
Wednesday morning started off kind of slow - the girls got to sleep in a little bit! The boys got an earlier start and went to Edinburgh to see the sites. The g...
When we landed in Scotland, we were met with everything we first expected: dark clouds, chilly winds, and the cold rain. While driving, I kept reminding myself ...
Day 1 at Hutchesons Grammar School in Glasgow was a huge success! The trip out was a blur. We left Saturday afternoon and arrived Sunday mid morning. We lost 7 ...
