Country Day alumni give Seniors invaluable accounts of their experiences which range from running the world’s largest student-run nonprofit corporation and working in Research Laboratories at Yale University, to managing, editing, and printing a literary magazine. Read on for an inside scoop of each seminar, and get a glimpse of what your own future may hold!

Compiled by Jayne Caron, ’10, former The Lens Section Editor, and Kathryn Black, ’11, The Lens Section Editor. An introduction to organometallic chemistry for a naïve, sixteen-year-old hotshot should never come from a man with a Zimbabwean accent. “Grab a stopcog!” A brown, toxic solution would spill onto my arms and hands – a day’s work ruined. “Use an errenmier flak!” A thick cloud of sulfur gas floating by. Coughing. “Chlooorroform D, Chlorrrroform D!” Shattering glass.

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. Our school’s focus on getting students into big-name Ivy League (or similarly prestigious) institutions has created an environment where the name of the college we’re attending, and the classes we took to get there, define our identities at school.

By The Scroll staff. Thirteen juniors and seniors have been inducted into the CCDS chapter of the Cum Laude Society (pictured: inductees from the Class of 2010).

By Victoria Mairal-Cruz, ‘12, Contributor. The CCDS academic team is undefeated, with both varsity and J.V. teams currently holding a five win record. Team members are optimistic about qualifying for the state tournament for the second year in a row.

By Isaac Guttman, ‘10, News Editor. In its third showing at the Northmont Invitational, Country Day’s Science Olympiad team earned its most impressive finish yet, placing an 9th out of 27 teams from across Midwest. With three ribbons and two medals in the 23 event competition, Country Day out-performed all other Cincinnati schools, including perennial powerhouses Wyoming and Mason.

Cody Pomeranz, ‘11, Brian Cofer, ‘10, and Sebastian Koochaki, ‘10, assess the President’s performance on a variety of criteria.

By Sebastian Koochaki, ’10, Contributor
This past Wednesday—Oct. 7, 2009—CCDS Upper School students and faculty were treated to a rousing rendition of Calculus: The Musical!, a two-person play exploring the “integral” ideas and discoveries to ont of mankind’s greatest mathematical art forms.  Sean Powell and Jae Boley from the Know Theatre of Cincinnati led students [...]

Eleven members of the Class of 2010 have been named Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship program.

Sebastian Koochaki, ’10, placed among the top 50 high school students in the nation on the 2009 National Chemistry Olympiad Exam last spring. He spent the past summer working in a lab with the director of graduate studies at UC’s Biomedical Engineering Department.