Congratulations to the Class of 2025!
We had a wonderful few days celebrating the 34 graduates in the Class of 2025! Scroll down to see pictures and videos from their Senior Thesis Project, USLR Awards Ceremony, Senior Walk, Senior Brunch, Baccalaureate Service, and Commencement.
As the culmination of their Classical education, students in Grade 12 are required to complete the Senior Thesis Project. This interdisciplinary and comprehensive project requires students to write a 15-page research paper and to give an oral defense in front of their peers and a panel of faculty and experts. Click a student’s name to view their thesis presentation.
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Lukas Badaro The Importance of Prayer: Prayer not only reshapes the brain, but more importantly, holds the power to foster a more intimate connection with God. (no video available) |
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Microbe-Managing Our Bodies: The microbiome should be trusted as critical to how we eat because balancing it generates a broad list of benefits such as immune support, disease and disorder reduction, and smooth digestion.
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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Glyphosate: Valuable Weedkiller or Public Health Hazard?: Glyphosate has continued to pose long term detrimental effects on humans and the dangerous agrochemical needs to be banned. |
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National Honor Society
Cum Laude |
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The Darkness of Social Media: Why the Secrecy of Snapchat is Dangerous to its Users: The darkness hidden within Snapchat–why Snapchat’s design makes people susceptible to hide with little accountability, paving the way for forms of abuse and exploitation to occur. |
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The Dangers of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Art World: Technology as a tool or an agent? Why human involvement matters in the creative process.
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Prevention of Underaged Alcohol Consumption: Despite the fact that adolescent alcohol consumption has become a normalized activity in society, we must address the long-term consequences that are caused by a sip. |
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child : The Truth Behind Corporal Punishment: Although corporal punishment seems like an effective disciplinary method, it has several unwanted effects that are detrimental to the wellbeing of children. |
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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Laura Gallego Life or Death: A Shortcoming of the American Diet: As a society we overlook what foods we consume and we should instead consider taking cues from The Blue Zone Diet. |
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Testing the Test: Is the SAT Worth it?: In the wake of the test-optional movement, U.S. colleges and universities must reinstate a standardized test requirement to create a more equitable system. |
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Summa Cum Laude
Class of 2025 Salutatorian |
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Products of the Pandemic: Why COVID-19 Children Require More Support: The long-term effects of COVID-19 in young children are still troubling them, and we must provide resources for the sake of their future academic careers.
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National Honor Society
Magna Cum Laude |
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ROY G. BIV Has a Lot of Feelings: The Psychological Impact of Color: While color is something we are immersed in every day, its influence often goes unnoticed. By becoming more aquainted with its deeper effects we can enrich our interactions with the world around us.
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Cum Laude |
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Intellectual Machines or Set Apart? Understanding the Image of God: For centuries, the doctrine of the Image of God has been closely associated with our cognitive abilities. This has caused lines to blur in understanding who falls under that category; therefore, a clearer definition that can apply to all human beings, regardless of their condition, should be considered.
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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Strength, Fairness, and Inclusion: Rethinking Transgender Participation in Women’s Sports: The negative consequences of allowing transgender women to compete with biological women in athletics. |
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The Dangers of Genetic Editing and its Potential For Becoming a Medicine: Genetic editing may be the cure to diseases previously thought to be permanent, but how much are we willing to risk for a new type of medicine? |
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Cum Laude |
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The Power of Boredom: How Choosing it Can Ultimately Break its Constraint: What makes boredom so uncomfortable—and what if the path to overcoming it has been right in front of us all along? |
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The Hidden Harm: How the Fashion Industry has Been Negatively Impacted by the Herd Mindset: The hidden harm within the fashion industry: how the herd mentality and social media are causing the rapid decline of personal style, the environment, and mental health.
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National Honor Society
Cum Laude |
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The Underlooked Pursuit of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship is a highly unconsidered work option. By including certain values seen in the Christian faith, entrepreneurship becomes a reliable financial and faith filled success. |
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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Straight From the Teat: A Verbal Campaign for Raw Milk: Raw milk has been the subject of governmental harassment for years, but that must change due to raw milk’s unique benefits. |
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Magna Cum Laude |
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The Ruinous Cycle of Mental Health in America: The Western world has reached the age of abundance in all things, including mental health treatments. Why then is mental health worse than ever? |
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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Modern Concerns Over the Christian Flag: The Christian Flag and its associated pledge are more important than we think and deserve due thought. |
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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Gardening and the Art of Harvesting Well-being: School gardens like that of Covenant Christian Academy’s Classical Roots program cultivate more than just crops – they foster healthier minds, stronger bodies, and deeper community through hands-on learning in nature.
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Built to Break: The Harmful Effects of Planned Obsolescence: Does Planned Obsolescence have a detrimental impact on the enviroment and the economy? Is it ethical? |
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Restricting Technology: Preserving the Future: The detrimental effects overexposure to technology has on childhood brain development. |
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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The Cost of the Game: Why NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) deals are detrimental to NCAA athletes and their programs. |
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Betting on Destruction: The Far-reaching Harm of Sports Betting: The negative effects of sports betting and how money is not the only problem. |
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National Honor Society
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Instant Gratification vs. Lasting Solutions: How Social Media Distorts Our View of How to Treat Mental Illness: Social Media is destroying our view of how to treat mental illness and making us believe that a quick click of a button is what is going to solve our problems.
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National Honor Society
Cum Laude |
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Experiencing the Family Table: The act of practicing family mealtimes encourages us to slow down in a culture of busyness, and build a ritual that has the power to ensure children are healthy and developed individuals. |
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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The Life of the Lawless: The effect of US immigration laws on illegal families and how they have inefficiently dealt with this issue. |
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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Sold to the Highest Bidder: How Corporations Exploit and Manipulate Users and Their Information: What should we do when faced with companies and corporations collecting and using our data and information, even when we don’t always allow it? |
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Societal Oblivion: The Hidden Danger Behind Energy Drink Consumption in Adolescents: As energy drinks continue to become more popular, their consumption should be banned for adolescents due to a myriad of short and long term health dangers. |
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
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Male and Female He Created Them: How the Evangelical Church’s Teachings on Gender Have Harmed Both Men and Women: The church’s teachings of power-seeking masculinity and submissive femininity have caused both men and women to be harmed physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude
Class of 2025 Valedictorian |
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Intergenerationality: The Key to Connecting the Church Body: Local churches should pursue intergenerational relationships in order to embody a more holistic, biblical version of each individual and the church body as a whole. |
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National Honor Society
Cum Laude |
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When is the Breaking Point? Understanding Overtraining and How it Affects Young Athletes: The overlooked issue of overtraining in youth sports can pose many more problems than meets the eye. |
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Translation or Transformation? The Virtue in Literary Translation: In spite of fundamental differences from the original text, literary translations should be regarded as valuable tools to help societies understand themselves. |
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National Honor Society
Summa Cum Laude |
Valedictorian
Madeleine Trumbull
Salutatorian
Allison Hall
The Maurer Award for Comprehensive Excellence
Awarded to Elsa Williams
This award is named in recognition of Mr. Geoffrey Maurer, the founding Dean of Covenant’s Rhetoric School. It is given to one Rhetoric School student in recognition of demonstrated, well-rounded, and humble excellence characterized by godliness, maturity, and trustworthiness during the year.
Leadership Award
Awarded to Nicolas DeJesus
This award is given to one student in the Rhetoric School for high-quality and demonstrated leadership during the 2024-2025 school year.
The Azadian Award (formerly The Dean’s Award)
Awarded to Carys Walters
This award is named in recognition of Mrs. Kathy Azadian, Covenant’s founding Athletic Director, former Dean of Students, and current board member. It is given to one senior who has proactively worked to foster a positive school community and has performed consistent and humble service to the Covenant community.
Coaches Cup Athletic Award
Awarded to Jacob Libby and Julia Ray
This award is given to two students, one female, and one male, for their leadership qualities in athletics, work ethic, high skill level in their sport, and good sportsmanship.
Cougar “All-Star” Award
Awarded to Isabella DeCotis, Isaac Portugal, and Julia Ray
This award is given to graduating seniors who participated in all three athletic seasons during all four years of Rhetoric School.
Excellence in Performing Arts Award
Awarded to Colin Moll
This award is given to one graduating senior in recognition of outstanding and consistent excellence in the Performing Arts throughout their Rhetoric School career.
Excellence in Visual Arts Award
Awarded to Alexandra Pintone
This award is given to one graduating senior in recognition of outstanding and consistent excellence in the Visual Arts throughout their Rhetoric School career.
Ovation Award
Awarded to Isabella DeCotis
The Ovation Award is given to graduating seniors who have participated in three or more performance groups through every year of Rhetoric School. Eligible groups include: Concert Band, Jazz Band, RS Choir, Worship Band, and yearly Theatrical Performances. Additionally, the Director of Fine Arts may credit a student with one portion of eligibility due to exemplary “above and beyond” service behind the scenes to the Fine Arts department.
The Class of 2025 continued an annual tradition of parading through the hallways of CCA to the cheers of students and faculty!
A celebration for our senior class and their families offering a time to share memories, reflections and gratitude for their time at CCA.
Published Author and CCA Parent Esther Baird delivered a meaningful message to our graduates on the eve of graduation. Juniors and Seniors participated in the Passing of the Flame Ceremony.
Click below to watch the full video of the Baccalaureate service.
Dr. Ryan Plosker, Chairman of the CCA Board of Directors, delivered the Keynote Address. Senior Ally Hall delivered the Salutatory Address, and Senior Madeleine Trumbull delivered the Valedictory Address.
Click here to view and download the full gallery of Commencement photos.
Click below to watch the full video of the Class of 2025 Commencement Ceremony.
