The Albuquerque Academy Speech and Debate team captured first placed with a lead of 132 points! Forty-nine members of the Albuquerque Academy Speech and Debate team participated in the three-day State tournament in March, demonstrating group effort in critiquing one other, offering new ideas, and researching topics. The team won first place with a lead […]

On Monday, March 10, 2014, Governor Susana Martinez signed Senate Bill 158 (SB 158), sponsored by Senator Daniel Ivey-Soto of Albuquerque and lobbied by Adam Foster ’18, a current eighth-grade student. Working closely with Senator Ivey-Soto, Adam testified before the Senate Consumer and Public Affairs, Senate Education, and House Education committees to help get this bill passed. SB […]

The results from MATHCOUNTS, UNM-PNM, and AMC competitions are in! ***** MATHCOUNTS State Competition Over 150 mathletes attended the state competition held Saturday, March 8 on the Academy campus. Albuquerque Academy’s team — Carter Abdallah ’18, Zach Auster ’20, Henry Luo ’18, and AnaMaria Perez ’20 — placed 3rd overall, and Henry Luo placed in the top 16 for individuals. Calvin Abdallah ’18, Sophie […]

Congratulations to Kobie Boslough ’16, who won the 2014 Aldo Leopold Writing Contest in the Grades 10-12 category. This year’s prompt asked students to “describe what wilderness means to you and your community.” In addition to winning $500, Kobie will be honored at the Wilderness 50 Festival in October. “Kobie has a heartfelt commitment to environmental […]

Physical Plant Director John Christensen’s article, “Power on the Mesa: Albuquerque Academy’s Solar Array,” will be included in Critical Issues in Facilities Management, a new book series published by the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA). Physical Plant Director John Christensen article, “Power on the Mesa: Albuquerque Academy’s Solar Array,” will be included in Critical […]

Peter Nash, English department faculty member, has recently published his book titled The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight(Fairleigh Dickinson, 2014), available on Amazon. The book is a biography of Moses Jacob Ezekiel, telling a “remarkable story of a man’s rise to international fame as an artist in late nineteenth-century Italy.”

On Thursday, February 28, Academy students enrolled in Earth Systems (grade 8) and Biology E: Ecology Emphasis(grades 10-12) helped teach the sixth graders about the importance of water resources in New Mexico. Students also learned about about water quality and storm water from a presentation by Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District, as well as oil spills, aquifers, drought, […]

Averill Nolte ’15 attended the “Land&Water Summit 2014: Drought as an Opportunity For Change” as a representative of the Biology E: Ecology Emphasis science class taught by Karen Temple Beamish. She will present what she learned at the Summit to her classmates as part of a unit on water resources in the West. Averill learned how to more […]

In mid-February of this year, Albuquerque Academy students enrolled in AP Studio Art: Drawing, AP Studio Art: 2-D Design, AP Studio Art: 3-D Design, and AP Art History visited several art museums in Los Angeles, CA. Students researched the institutions, artists, and individual artworks prior to the trip and presented their findings in front of the works at the museums. […]

Students from Albuquerque Academy, Sandia Prep, and Bosque School took part in a Wilderness First Aid and CPR class over the past weekend, held in the Academy’s Science Center. Thirteen Academy students currently enrolled in the Outdoor Leadership II course were joined by nine students from Sandia Prep and two from Bosque School to take part in […]