2023 CA Upper School Interim Catalog
Interim at Colorado Academy provides opportunities to get out of the classroom to learn by doing, and each trip is dedicated...
Upper School
Substance Abuse Prevention in a Changing World
This week at Colorado Academy, substance abuse experts from the Soundcheck Prevention Network spoke to Seventh, Eighth, Ninth,...
Foundation for Environmental Stewardship Elevates Student Voices
Colorado Academy’s ongoing sustainability work received a substantial boost during a weeklong Upper School residency with the Foundation...
Students Pledge to Build Community After Attending National Conference
Sometimes getting away from campus to visit with others about topics you are passionate about is all it...
Athletes on the Rise in CA’s Climbing Program
Spend any time in Colorado Academy’s Climbing Center talking with new head climbing coach Brian List, and you’ll...
‘A Builder of Communities’
When she was an elementary student in the city of Tai’an, China, in the eastern part of the...
The Neustadt Scholar Program at Colorado Academy Enters its Second Decade
For more than a decade, the Neustadt Scholar Program at Colorado Academy has offered Upper School students the...
Students Promote Respectful Discourse
Colorado Academy Seniors Claire Arney and Arantza Pereira, the co-founders of the Upper School Respectful Discourse club, believe...
Record Donations Buoy HOPE 2022
Hundreds of Denver-area guests arrived by car and by bus for the 29th annual HOPE event at Colorado...
Geoff Ball ’06: Leadership and Loss in Afghanistan
On August 26, 2021, Marine Captain Geoff Ball ’06, commander of Ghost Company, 2d Battalion, 1st Marines, was...
Finding Family through Fantasy
“In a time before Facebook, World of Warcraft, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games, there once existed simply...
Authors Find Their People, and Their Voice, During NaNoWriMo at CA
There are many reasons Colorado Academy Middle and Upper School students sign up for the CA NaNoWriMo (National...
2022-2023 CA Upper School Global Travel Opportunities
Join CA on trips to Mexico, Vancouver, Colombia, Bahamas, and Iceland OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM At Colorado Academy, we nurture...
Exploring History at the Neustadt Literary Festival
How do we write about history, even when it is painful? Or when others might prefer to look...
HOPE 2022: Extending the Impact
On December 10, 2022, more than 1,500 guests from across the Denver metro area will come to the...
Students to participate in Neustadt Lit Festival
For the eleventh consecutive year, Colorado Academy is participating in an exciting literary celebration known as the Neustadt...
Senior-Kindergarten Buddy match draws nerves, excitement
With this year’s Senior-Kindergarten Buddy match delayed by a week, the Class of 2023 and the Class of...
CA moves beyond AP with Advanced Studies and Research
This fall, in veteran social studies teacher Elissa Wolf-Tinsman’s new course, The American Experiment, Colorado Academy Seniors are...
Norm-setting in a new school year
Understanding that our students are fresh off the summer, teachers often spend the first couple of weeks of...
Reframing college selection goals
We are in full swing here in the College Office, hosting admissions representatives from around the country and...
Helping students find their ‘STEM identity’
One day in July 2022, Sophia Gomez, now a Junior at Colorado Academy, found herself performing an emergency...