Congratulations to Elias Garcia ’19 who won first place in the State competition for National History Day (NHD), Junior Paper Division. Congratulations to Elias Garcia ’19 who won first place in the State competition for National History Day (NHD), Junior Paper Division. Eli will now travel to Washington, D.C. in June where he will spend a week at the 2014 Kenneth E. […]

For the fifth year in a row, the Academy Chess Team took first place in the 4A/5A State Chess Championship. Members of the winning state team are: Sarah Blog ’14(captain), Christian Cho ’14, Michael Hsu ’18, Thomas Mathine ’16, Dinh Nguyen ’14, and Ethan Ross ’18. Contributing team members who played on one of two teams this year are: Ryu Hsu ’16, Zach […]

The Academy’s supercomputing team is one of eight finalists, selected from 70 teams, in the 2013-14 New Mexico Supercomputing contest. The Academy team (all sophomores) comprising Marcus Dominguez-Kuhn, Trevor Kann, Josh Konopka, David Kohler, and Hisham Temmar, was selected as one of eight finalists in the 2013-14 New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Two hundred-seventy students, organized into 70 […]

The United States Department of Education Commission on Presidential Scholars has announced that Jessica Grubesic ’14 and Eric Li ’14 were selected as semifinalists in the 2014 Presidential Scholars competition and will now advance to the final round. From nearly 3.2 million graduating high school seniors, over 4,000, including 15 Academy students, were identified as candidates in the program […]

On Saturday, April 19, 2014, students competed in the 3rd Annual Trashion Fashion and Art Show. Materials used to create the sometimes whimsical, sometimes sweet, and sometimes sultry costumes and art varied from mundane aluminum cans to unusual components of an abandoned couch. Local businesses awarded winning entries with cash prizes and gift certificates. Congratulations […]

Academy seventh grader Shannon Porter recently passed her “Senior Moves/Gold” test in figure skating — the highest achievement in freeskating and moves — earning her the designation of U.S. Figure Skating gold medalist. Shannon is the youngest person from Albuquerque (age 12) to have ever passed this test. Becoming a U.S. Figure Skating gold medalist is the […]

Under the guidance of faculty member Hughlings Himwich, Academy students are studying Latin at various levels, with impressive showings on national exams. Congratulations to the following students for achieving impressive scores on the 2014 National Latin Exam: Perfect Score: Julia Ho ’18, Remy Link ’16, and Alexander Touche ’17 Gold Medal: Anna Rekow ’16, Christina Vergara Ossenberg ’16, and Ellie Wynn ’16 Outstanding […]

Nine Academy students will have their photographs on display in the Albuquerque Public Schools Focus on Youthexhibition in May. Focus on Youth is an annual juried high school photography exhibition sponsored by Albuquerque Public Schools, featuring one hundred photographs selected from schools throughout Albuquerque. An opening and awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 4 from 1 to […]

After competing and winning All-Around in the NM Optional State Meet in March, Kitty Foos ’15 competed in the USA Gymnastics Regional Championships for Region 3 (Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming), winning the All-Around championship in the Senior age division. She received her highest score for her performance on the balance beam. Over 200 athletes […]

English Department faculty member Melanie Petersonhas been accepted to a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. English Departmnet faculty member Melanie Petersonwill spend part of the summer attending a program offered to teachers through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She will go to New York in July for an institute entitled A Reverence for Words: Understanding Muslim […]