Albuquerque Academy student athlete Charles Touche was named the 2016-17 Gatorade New Mexico Boys Soccer Player of the Year on Monday, making him the second Academy male soccer player to be honored with the award and 16th in school history in all sports. The 6-foot-3-inch, 185-pound senior forward led the Chargers to a 19-3-1 record […]
Jordan Lesansee `17 named the Gatorade New Mexico Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year
Albuquerque Academy student athlete Jordan Lesansee was named the 2016-17 Gatorade New Mexico Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year on Monday, making him the third Academy male cross country runner to be honored with the award and 15th in school history in all sports. The 5-foot-10-inch, 140-pound senior won the Class 5A state meet [...]
Albuquerque Academy Faculty Member Jill Brown Wins the Independent Schools Educator Network Outstanding Educator Award
Dr. Jill Brown, educational technology faculty member, has been selected for this year’s Independent Schools Educator Network Outstanding Educator Award. This award recognizes an independent school educator or leader that has implemented innovative practices, established private-public partnerships, and/or has shared their time advancing the teaching practice with all educators.
Jackson Morris `17 named the Gatorade New Mexico Boys Track & Field Player of the Year
Albuquerque Academy student athlete Jackson Morris was named the 2016-17 Gatorade New Mexico Boys Track and Field Player of the Year on Thursday, making him the second Academy student athlete to win this award multiple times. Jackson, who won this same award in 2015, joins Julia Foster ’11 (2010 and 2011) as the only Academy […]
Stephanie Rifkin ’19 Selected for Yale Young Global Scholars Program
Stephanie Rifkin ’19 was selected for the Yale Young Global Scholars Program Frontiers in Math & Science session. This session will delve deeply into the interface of physical sciences and mathematics. The program will run June 19 through July 2
Andy Zhang ’18 Wins New Mexico Stock Market Game
Andy Zhang ‘18 earned first place in the 2016-2017 New Mexico Stock Market Game, which ran from September through April. Andy participated in the game along with the rest the AP Economics class this year. The game includes more than 200 middle and high school teams from across the state. Andy’s portfolio finished 30 percent […]
Raye Myers ’19 Selected for Prestigious Yale Summer Program
Raye Myers ’19 has been selected to participate in Yale’s global Scholars Program. Raye’s program emphasis will be Sustainable Development and Social Entreprenurship. The program will run June 19 through July 2. For more information, click here.
Visual Arts Students Participate in Young Curators Exhibit
Four Visual Arts students were juried into the Site Santa Fe Young Curator’s exhibit, Pick, an informative and creative discussion of consumerism. The exhibit is a commentary on the consequences of the lifestyle of first-world consumers. It explores the adverse effects of consumerism on the environment and on first and third-world communities. The show will […]
Trey Caperton ’19 Named Best Actor in High School Musical
Trey Caperton ’19 received the Best Musical Performance by an Actor award for his role in “Chaplin, the Musical” at the 2017 Popejoy Awards. Trey will now participate in the National High School Musical Theatre Awards in New York, a ten-day curriculum where students from across the country work with Broadway professionals to perform a […]
Three Albuquerque Academy Students Place in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge
Baily McCarthy ’19 and Eric Swiler ’19 were finalists in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge for modeling human behavior during a fire. Jeremy Rifkin ’19, was awarded the prestigious the High Performance Computing Award by the Cray Super Computing Company. Jeremy was awarded $1000 and the chance to run his N-grams word-usage frequency program on one of the fastest computers […]
