News/In the Media

Forty years in a classroom changes a lot of lives. For Columbus Academy alumnus Ted Coons ’94, Kevin Morrin had a lasting impact on his.

Ted and his wife, Liz Yee, have made a foundational gift to establish the Kevin Morrin Chair for Inspired Teaching, honoring the English teacher and coach who played a critical role in shaping how Ted thinks about learning — and who spent forty years doing the same for generations of Academy…

This summer, for the very first time, Columbus Academy will be hosting an in-person, project-based artificial intelligence program delivered by Inspirit AI, an AI education program developed and taught by Stanford and MIT alumni.

Artificial intelligence is the defining technology of our times: in our voice-activated devices, smartphone face-recognition systems, autonomous vehicles, and now in generative AI like ChatGPT. The potential for all students with diverse…

This year’s Currier Lecture, held during a special upper school assembly on February 27, featured a conversation with John Exline ’64 about his unprecedented career and legacy at Academy moderated by fellow alumnus and upper school history teacher Matt Carter ’00.

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Athletic Performance Coach Shelby Reichle has been named the 2026 State Coach of the Year by the National High School Strength Coaches Association (NHSSCA)!

Shelby, who works on fitness and training with all of our athletic programs at Columbus Academy, was one of four coaches honored in the Great Lakes Region and is just the second pick from Central Ohio in the last…

Bravo to our middle-schoolers on their supercalifragilisticexpialidocious performances of “Mary Poppins Jr.”!

“Thank you so much to our amazing community of supporters, parents, faculty and fellow students,” wrote director Whitney Eads after the final performance. “Our time on Cherry Tree Lane was one we will remember forever.”

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