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Articles on New Advances in ScienceConcord Academy’s New Hybrid Vans: Transportation in the Sustainability Plan
As part of Concord Academy’s Sustainability Plan, adopted in the fall of 2019, the school recently purchased two plug-in hybrid vans. The purchase...
A Guide to NASA Artemis Program
“We rise together back to the moon and beyond!” a NASA commentator exclaimed to more than three hundred thousand viewers worldwide at 1:47 a.m. EST...
Musk Buys Twitter: A Crisis of Misinformation
On October 28, Elon Musk officially acquired Twitter for approximately 44 billion dollars. Musk had first proposed to buy the site in April, but...
Course Spotlight: Environmental Symposium
Environmental Symposium, taught by Gretchen Roorbach, is a one-credit fall science elective that invites three professional environmental scientists...
The Environmental Costs of Christmas
With winter break looming and December in full swing, the purple and orange ribbons of Halloween have come down to be replaced by wreaths and...
NASA Tests Planetary Defense
Protecting Earth from an asteroid strike is common in science fiction, but it is also a concern for real scientists. On September 26, the...
Ripples From Hurricane Ian Make Their Way Up to CA
Hurricane season is in full force, and one of the strongest storms so far was Hurricane Ian. This Category Four tropical storm initially made...
Science Elective Spotlight: Advanced Organic Chemistry
What makes a class special can vary. Sometimes it is a teacher, sometimes the material. In Advanced Chemistry: Organic Structure and Function,...
STEM Council’s Peer Buddy System
This year, there is a new student organization at Concord Academy: STEM Council. One of the first things this group is planning to establish is a...
The Best Kinds of Apples
On Saturday, September 10, some Concord Academy students went apple picking at Honey Pot Hill Orchard. There, they could pick seven kinds of apples:...
Concord Academy Student Resources Shifts to New Website
The website previously used by many Concord Academy students to access student resources, CA Connect, has been taken down and replaced with a tab on...
Wasps at CA: What’s all the Buzz About?
Fall at Concord Academy means new textbooks, frantic rushing to get to class across the Quad, the start of sports, cramming into the Chapel, Club...
Crops in September
As the summer comes to an end, many crops are ready to harvest in the northeastern United States. While many fruits ripen through the summer, a few...
The Environmental Impacts of the Lawn
Over the years, a perfectly cut, lush-green, grassy lawn has become synonymous with the American Dream and sprawling suburbia. Many lawns in...
Reflecting Upon CA’s 2019 Sustainability Plan
In the spring of 2019, Concord Academy unveiled an ambitious series of institution-wide academic and operational goals in the form of the Concord...
Spring Trees in Concord
Concord Academy is lucky to have a variety of beautiful flowering trees on campus. Most trees only bloom for one to two weeks maximum, so make sure...
Musk Buys Twitter: What Does it Mean for Free Speech
On April 26, 2022, entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk struck a deal with the board of Twitter to acquire the company for approximately $44...
COVID-19 Cases at CA Throughout 2022 to Date
According to Concord Academy’s case tracking spreadsheet, there were 83 cases of COVID-19 between students and faculty in April, easily surpassing...