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Summer summary & upcoming work
We began the summer with a weeklong camp in partnership with the Gold Crown Foundation Clubhouse, offering a storytelling and animation program for 18 students in grades 6–12. Following that, we hosted our annual middle and high school summer academies with two cohorts of 5 students each (a total of 10). And, for the third…
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Growth Happens Outside of the Comfort Zone: How shaping a surfboard shaped my future by Cooper Carson
At the time of this writing my REDI Lab project was three years ago. It seems like only yesterday that I walked into the REDI Lab on day one with no idea what I wanted to do or why I was there. I did know that in a few months I would be uprooting my…
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Welcome to the team, Jazmin Nieto!!!In her own words…
I am so excited to join Colorado Academy as the new K-12 Service Learning & Community Engagement Coordinator and REDI Lab Community Liaison. As a first generation Latina and a proud southwest Denver native, I experienced firsthand the power of community, resilience, and the opportunities that come from having people believe in you. Those roots…
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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…
