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CATA Takes Home Eleven Trophies at Blumey Awards

CATA's production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar took home eleven Blumey Awards on Sunday, May 21, 2023. The production was nominated in a record 14 categories!

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Benjamin Eggleston Will Travel to Washington, D.C. for Prestigious Journalism Conference

Benjamin Eggleston, a student at Central Academy of Technology & Arts, has been selected to represent Matthews, NC as a National Youth Correspondent to the 2023 Washington Journalism and Media Conference at George Mason University.

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CATA Student Wins District Poetry Out Loud Competition

Congratulations to Katelyn Whitmire for her first place win in the Union County District Poetry Out Loud Competition.

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Central Academy of Technology & Arts wins three Blumey Awards

Central Academy of Technology & Arts (CATA) won three of the 15 categories at the ninth annual Blumenthal Performing Arts High School Musical Theatre Awards on May 29 at Charlotte's Belk Theater.

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Poetry Out Loud Winners

The schoolwide Poetry Out Loud competition was held last Friday with incredible success. Nineteen students from each grade and from several academies recited poems before a live audience. The school-wide winners are: first place Kire Elsasser, second place Stephanie DiMeo, and third place Omari Cupid.

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Students in Mrs. Watts' Math Class Create Sculpture

I was not sure what to expect for the upcoming semester when I walked into Mrs. Watts’ classroom at the beginning of the year, but it definitely was not the task of spending two months assembling paper triangles.

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CATA students transform classic automobile into battery powered vehicle

Loud machinery, heavy equipment, and oil underneath your fingernails are all the makings of a great day at the Transportation Systems Academy at Central Academy Technology and Arts.

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CATA Wins at NCTC

On Friday, November 5th the casts of Dracula and Trojan Women traveled to Rocky River High School to compete in the Regional NCTC competition. Both casts won a number of awards but Trojan Women was named Distinguished Play and will move on to the NCTC State Competition.

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Boast Like Beowulf

Mrs. Henry's English IV Honors students boast their own feats of valor in the style of the Anglo Saxon warrior Beowulf who slew the monster Grendel, his mother, and the fire-breathing dragon.

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Poetry Speed Dating

Memorizing poetry takes hard work and repetition.

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CATA Students Investigate Fake Crime Scene

What happened to Marcel Newgard?

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#UCPSGrads: Central Academy of Technology & Arts senior Athan Wright

Central Academy of Technology & Arts senior Athan Wright fully embraces his entrepreneurial spirit and go-getter attitude. After starting his own lawn care business at the age of 14, he knew that being an entrepreneur was the career path he wanted to follow.

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CATA Pre-Engineering Students Design Weather Station

Mr. Humphries' PLTW Engineering Design & Development (EDD) students are designing a weather station. This image shows a schematic diagram for this station.

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CATA senior takes second place at North Carolina poetry competition

Central Academy of Technology & Arts (CATA) senior, Ashline Arnaud is the runner up for the state’s Poetry Out Loud Competition.

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Central Academy of Technology & Arts senior receives March Crowder Award

At the March 2 meeting, the Board recognized a senior at Central Academy of Technology & Arts’ (CATA) Medical Science Academy who constantly and selflessly serves her peers and the youth around her.

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Social Studies Students Celebrate Black History Month

Students in Ms. Laura Hibberd's World History and AP US History courses participated in two projects in honor of Black History Month in February.

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Honors Biology Students Create Websites Featuring Research

Ms. Rhonda Brown's Honors Biology class was working to meet the following objective: Through collaboration, students research, learn and apply Ecology terms and concepts, to real life, through building websites, about the ecosystems, of their choice.

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CATA Canine Club Makes Toys for Shelters

CATA Canine Club students created dog toys out of recycled materials for local animal rescue groups.

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CATA Grad Publishes Book of Poetry

Isaiah Hamilton, a 2018 CATA graduate, has just released a poetry book, “Look both ways before you cross my mind.” His self-published collection of poems is meant to help the next generation of young adults and share with them real thoughts and feelings.

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UNCC names first recipient of Reed Parlier Scholarship

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced its first recipient of the Reed Parlier Memorial Scholarship. Via a Zoom celebration, Nathan Weisskopf received a $72,000 scholarship from the university in honor of Reed Parlier, who died tragically in 2019.

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