All 19 of this year’s National Merit Semifinalists have advanced to be 2022 Finalists and are eligible for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $30 million that will be offered this spring! To learn more about Devan “Davey” Agrawal, Russell Ahmed, Siddharth Amirneni, Spandana Amirneni, Alexandra Butnariu, Julia DeVore, Soham Joshi, Madeleine Kazatsky, Janet Li, Raaghav Malik, Cyrus Richardson, Malachy Sullivan, Haichuan “Fletcher” Sun, Lindsay Sutherland, Yashu Taneru, Amiya Tiwari, Carolyn “Gurby” Vaziri, Ethan Weiser and Stephen Wright, click here.

All sophomores are expected to attend the College Counseling Preview Night with their parents and guardians on Tuesday, March 8, from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in our Schoedinger Theatre. Freshman families are also welcome. If you missed last month’s final College Counseling parent coffee on Athletic Recruiting, click here for the recording.

Ninth-grader Arnav Nawani is organizing a schoolwide book drive taking place March 7-18 for the Read to Succeed Foundation. Please consider donating any new or gently used books you no longer want to the marked boxes that will be located in the lounges and near the main offices of the Upper School and Middle School as well as at the top of the main staircase in our Lower School. All books collected will be distributed to underprivileged readers around the greater Columbus area through Read to Succeed and donated to local pantries and organizations like the Center for Family Safety and Healing, who will then distribute them to people and families in need.

A unique display that was in our upper school library during the month of February was an up-close-and-personal look at the typewriters similar to the ones used by famous Black writers that have been collected and restored by upper school English teacher Dr. Andy Morris ’85. Learn more about this Black History Month collaboration with our upper school librarians by clicking here. Coverage from Sunday’s celebration hosted by MOSAIC is coming soon. In the meantime, please click on the following links for even more Black History Month activities:

The 2021-22 Celebrate the Arts playbill will be distributed later this month to each performing arts student in band, choir and orchestra. A digital version of the arts playbill can be viewed by clicking here. Click on the following links for more music and arts news:

At the National Football Foundation (NFF) and College Hall of Fame’s recent 61st annual Scholar-Athlete Awards Banquet, Academy senior Gyvnn Mendenhall and alumnus Angus Soderberg ’18 were honored as NFF Scholar-Athletes! They were joined by Viking head coach Robin Miller, Kenyon head coach Ian Good and Lords teammate Phil Soderberg ’20. Learn more by clicking here. And click on the following links for more athletics coverage:

The March edition of our Service Board Newsletter is ready for reading! This month’s issue recaps the Baking 4 Good/Project Linus service event, includes faculty/staff appreciation messages organized by upper-schoolers and recognizes two other service learning projects. Also, we thank our ¡HOLA! parent affinity group for making food for our Faith Mission delivery in February for 90-100 people! If you or your group would like to provide food for the April delivery, please contact service department chair Christy Bening or middle school service coordinator Michelle Platt. View the entire newsletter by clicking here.

On February 5, we celebrated Ed Carter ’96 and Katie Walker ’02 as the 44th and 45th inductees, respectively, into the Columbus Academy Athletic Hall of Fame! Learn more about them and view complete coverage from the ceremony by clicking here. For more alumni news, click on the following links:

Three-time Olympian and current Academy parent Rick Nash recently shared his experiences as a member of the Canadian Olympic men’s hockey team with our first-graders (view photos)! Additional coverage of recent events happening within our classrooms, campus and community on our social media has included: