Blogs

On Friday, April 27th, 2018 a group of Cortona Academy students, staff, and parents made the trek to Maryland's NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. After a brief look around the Visitor's Center, the group was lead the ever impressive “Science on a Sphere.” This...

On April 5-6th Cortona Academy students and staff attended the Washington Convention Center's USA Science and Engineering Festival. Cortona attends both the national festival and the regional events every year because we know what an amazing opportunity this is for...

This school year is coming to a close and Cortona Academy's 26th Graduation ceremony is just around the corner. In honor of the closing of a chapter and the beginning of a new facet in life, this month Cortona Academy is featuring Professor Eric. As a member of...

On Friday, April 9th, 2018 a group of Cortona Academy students and staff spent the day in Washington D.C. at two very exciting field trips. The first was at the Museum of National History. The museum offers a set of unique learning opportunities for students in grades...

This spring the Cortona Academy community of students and professors participated in a local campaign, the Community Crane Infinitive, in order to honor those people in the United States who are living with stage IV breast cancer. The initiative aim to make 150,000...

On Friday, February 9th, 2018, a group of Cortona Academy students, parents, and staff made their way into the cold weather in Washington, D.C. to start their day with a tour of the Library of Congress. According to the Library's web page it holds, “More than 38...

There are two common kinds of basic summer camps available for children. There are the traditional camps we all think of when we think of summer camps: structured, outdoor adventure camps filled with hot summer days, punch, and plenty of buzzing insects. Then there...

Eleven percent of all US children ages 4-17 years are diagnosed with ADHD, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. A persistent, ceaseless problem for parents and educators is what to do for all these students. In particular, parents need to ask if...

For Cortona Academy's seventh field trip, an eager group of students, parents, and staff met bright and early for the car ride into Washington, D.C., to visit the historic Hillwood Estate and Gardens. Hillwood, which was owned by Marjorie Merriweather Post, the heir...