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A Conversation and Update from Brian Labra Vergara
[RL] Where are you now? [BL] In a period of transition. Actually, I’m on a bus in New York, but that’s neither here nor there. For some background, my name is Brian Labra Vergara, a first-gen Colorado Native who went through the REDI Lab program and graduated Colorado Academy to attend Skidmore College in Saratoga…
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“Why should I believe in my own ideas?” by Avery Lin
“Why should I believe in my own ideas?” This was one of the first questions I asked myself when I joined the REDI Lab in 2019. Five years later, I am still asking the same question every day. As a senior in college this year majoring in philosophy, I grapple daily with thinkers whose ideas…
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Four Is a Magic Number
Some might say that Fourth Grade flies under the Lower School radar. It doesn’t seem to reverberate as loudly with the dramatic leaps in reading and math that occur in earlier grades, or foreshadow the more rigorous academic schedule of Middle School in the way that Fifth Grade does. But for Colorado Academy’s Fourth Grade teaching…
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An Expansive Vision: REDI Lab Aimee and Jonathan Coleman Center
“REDI Lab is just the beginning of a lifetime subscription to learning,” said Tom Thorpe, the Director of Colorado Academy’s REDI Lab program, as he spoke on March 3, 2023, to parents, faculty and staff members, and friends gathered to celebrate the opening of the REDI Lab Aimee and Jonathan Coleman Center in the Mariposa District of Denver.…
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Ribbon Cutting Marks Ambitious Expansion of REDI Lab Program
“REDI Lab is just the beginning of a lifetime subscription to learning,” said Tom Thorpe, the Director of Colorado Academy’s REDI Lab program, as he spoke on March 3 to parents, faculty and staff members, and friends gathered to celebrate the opening of the REDI Lab Aimee and Jonathan Coleman Center in the Mariposa District of Denver. And…
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Welcome to REDI Lab Aimee and Jonathan Coleman Center
Since its inception in 2016, REDI Lab has become a signature program at CA, where students can live the school’s mission in real and authentic ways. Having served more than 130 CA students and an additional 15 non-CA students through its new summer program, REDI Lab continues to provide students with the opportunity to solve…
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Austin Hatch inspires at SPEAK
Sharing his near-miraculous life story with Colorado Academy families and other guests at the first SPEAK (Series for Parent Education About Kids) event of the 2022-2023 school year, Austin Hatch brought a spirit of hope to the Leach Center for the Performing Arts on September 14, 2022. Presented by CA’s REDI Lab Aimee and Jonathan Coleman Center, the event—titled…
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The Impact of Your Philanthropy
October 28 is CA Gives Day—a day we spotlight to drive participation in our annual campaign. It coincides with a number of “asks” that usually come in the fall. Honestly, I get it—it can be a bit overwhelming. I thought I would use my blog to describe the ways that parents, alumni, and friends of…
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Senior REDI Lab launches entrepreneurs
When Senior Ulisses Rico Moncada started REDI Lab during the second semester, he had no way of knowing that it would lead him to an internship at Comcast, where he is currently working on an English/Spanish Public Service Announcement about recognizing disparities and trusting science during COVID-19. “This was amazing,” he wrote REDI Lab Coordinator,…
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Building community, celebrating resiliency through the pandemic
Since March, students have been tested in ways big and small, as they adjust to a new normal in the world of COVID-19. While not all of these life changes have been negative, often the pandemic has triggered feelings of sadness and disappointment, and a sense of loss. REDI Lab Director Tom Thorpe has spent the…
