By Victoria Mairal-Cruz ‘12, Lens Editor. This time next year, Country Day math teacher John Carriero will be living in San Francisco, California, where he may be doing anything from helping the Department of Defense write cryptography algorithms to working on developing the latest software.

By Caroline Gentile ‘13, News Editor. The 2010-2011 school year is the last in which “Intro to Programming” will be a mandatory elective. John Carriero, the current programming teacher, will be leaving the school at the end of this year.

By Holly Dayton ’13, Perspectives Editor. After a spectacular performance this past Saturday at the Cincinnati Regional Competition, the Science Olympiad team is advancing to State, to compete against the 40 best teams in Ohio.

Photos by Ilana Habib, ’11, Photography Editor. For the past several years, the faculty have beat the seniors, and this year’s game, held on Friday, April 9 in the South Gym, was no exception.

By Isaac Guttman, ‘10, News Editor. Shortly after the torch for Winter Olympics was extinguished, another breed of Olympians, the CCDS Science Olympiad team, competed at the Regional Science Olympiad competition at Raymond Walters College. The team earned district honors at the Saturday, March 6 event, placing fourth out of 24 of the top teams in Cincinnati and qualifying for the State competition.

By Jayne Caron, ’10, The Lens Section Editor, and Kathryn Black, ’11, The Lens Editor. Have you ever wondered what your teachers looked like when they were in high school? Which members of THE BREAKFAST CLUB they most resembled?

New to CCDS: Mr. John Carriero, math and computer science teacher, and Ms. Andrea Owens, technology librarian.