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10Jun Anvi Jadhav Damini Owalabi '26 John Henry BruscaNo Comments

Turning the Page: Ms. McPhillips Leaves GA

With her seventh year at Germantown Academy coming to a close, Ms. Kara McPhillips, an Upper School English teacher, will be finishing her tenure at GA. From being a cornerstone of the English faculty, to serving as a 9th grade advisor and helping run the school’s literary magazine, Academy Monthly, it goes without a doubt […]

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6Jun Sophie Sun '28No Comments

Mr. Evans reflects on his time at GA

After serving as a college counselor, advisor, athletic liaison, and AP testing manager at Germantown Academy for six years, Mr. Daniel Evans, Senior Associate Director of College Counseling, will be leaving GA at the end of the 2025-2026 school year to pursue a position at Youth Soccer Curriculum Academy as the Director of College Counseling […]

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6Jun Erica Liang '28No Comments

The updated course request still needs changes

                       As the year comes to an end, Germantown academy is trying something concerningly new for this year for course requests, GA is trying something new. Instead of the registrar putting the courses in for the students, the students get to put their own courses in.  The process starts the same as last year, filling out […]

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5Jun Anvi Jadhav Alex Flem Angela YangNo Comments

Germantown Academy hosts first performing arts showcase

Recently, Head of School, Mr. Rich Schellhas, announced GA’s Inaugural Performing Arts Showcase, a competition designed to celebrate talent across different artistic disciplines. Unlike typical recitals or concerts, this showcase has a competitive element. Performances were evaluated by a panel of GA alumni, and the top three acts earned a range of prize money for […]

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5Jun Evan FitchNo Comments

GA Launches New Scholastic Esports Club

Several Germantown Academy students are opening a new Esports club. This club is novel and unlike ones GA has seen before. Its leaders, Logan Shelton ‘28, Alex Hochhold ‘28 and Hendrick Liang ‘29, plan to play video games and organize competitions.  The initiative aims to turn a common hobby into a structured competitive environment. For […]

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5Jun Damini Owalabi '26No Comments

New SGA Leaders

After a year of student initiative, events and activities, it has come time for the student body to elect new officers to serve the 2026-2027 school year. As Szautner and Meinstein prepare for graduation, students Sophia Song ‘27, Abraham Genkin ‘28 and Simran Kamal-Bahl ‘28 prepare to hold the office as GA’s President, Vice President […]

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24Apr Kelly CorsonNo Comments

March Madness

Have you ever joined a March Madness Pool? Every spring, people who love college basketball get really excited about March Madness. The National Collegiate Athletic Association  (NCAA) organizes this tournament, where 68 teams from Division I play against each other. They play in a single-elimination bracket to see which team is the best. With the […]

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24Apr Vihaan Patel '28No Comments

Civic Leadership Program

From Jan.uary 27 to Jan.uary 30, a group of Germantown Academy students traveled to Washington D.C. to participate in the Civic Leadership program. The GA students joined four hundred other students from across the country in this conference hosted by Close Up Washington D.C. This trip held vital significance to GA as the students who […]

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24Apr Asher Pfeffer '27 Nick Lohin '27No Comments

Dual Olympic Gold Medals Turn to Controversy for U.S. Hockey Teams 

The 2026 Winter Olympics were a historic event for the United States (U.S.) hockey teams. Both the men’s and the women’s teams were awarded gold medals, marking the first time in history that Team U.S. ever achieved a double victory in Olympic Hockey. However, what should have been a celebration turned into controversy after a […]

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19Dec Jason Ma '28No Comments

GA technology advances with new 3D printers

During the second semester of the 2024-2025 school year, Germantown Academy students Elliot Myers ‘29, Henry Brownstein ‘30 and Sam Neuman ‘29, led by Middle School Science teacher Dr. James DiFranco, noticed that the 3D printers in the Beard Center for Innovation (BCI) were falling behind modern models.  The old models, Makerbot Replicator 3s, were […]

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