Country Day World School

🌊 CDWS Kayak Camp 🌊

This one-week camp explores kayak/canoe trails all throughout the Tampa Bay Area, immersing our campers with educational experiences on the water. Each location provides a unique, aquatic-based journey incorporating marine biology with outdoor fun!

These images are from Clam Bayou Nature Preserve in St. Petersburg, FL 📍

Week 2 Summer Camp Highlights 📸☀️

We had an absolute blast this week, staying busy with all sorts of activities! Swipe to see some of our favorite moments 🌴🤩

Summer Camp in 0.5 📸😂

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella: Youth Edition is officially in production! 👑💖

Two weeks of hard work, endless creativity, and one magical final performance! We can’t wait to show the world the incredible talent and passion these performers are ready to bring to the stage 🌟🎭

🌊☀️ CDWS SUMMER CAMP IS BACK ☀️ 🌊

We are so pumped to be in summer mode 😎🌴 Check out some of our favorite pictures taken throughout Week 1!

🌟 Alumni Spotlight: Alexander A. 🌟

The Country Day foundation builds incredible futures! We recently welcomed back Alexander Armstrong, who spent his foundational years with us from 2003 all the way through 2015. Today, he is driving groundbreaking cancer research as a PhD student, and it all started right here! 🔬🧬

After graduating from Country Day, Alex earned his International Baccalaureate diploma from Largo High School and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Florida with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. His passion for immune engineering took him to Boston, where he worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School developing novel CAR-T cell therapies for pancreatic and breast cancer. Currently, Alex is pursuing his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, leading projects to understand the spatial biology of prostate cancer and developing innovative platforms for gene delivery and wound healing. 🎓🏥

Alex credits Country Day with establishing an environment that enabled him to be curious and grow an independent ability to problem-solve. Through individualized learning tasks, exposure to the arts, and immersive humanities classes, the school provided him with ample resources to branch out in many directions. 🎨🌐

Importantly, Alex highlights Country Day's international trips and humanities classes for expanding his global mindset. "You have to first see the world before you can help it!" he shared, noting how these experiences taught him to adapt, appreciate different cultures, and build stronger global relationships. ✈️🌍

For Alex, coming back to visit was a nostalgic trip down memory lane, laughing about how the campus buildings and chairs seemed so much bigger when he was running through them as a kid! More than anything, he loved reconnecting with the community. For him, the people are what have always made Country Day so special.

We are incredibly proud to see how Alex’s openness, creativity, and drive are helping to shape a better tomorrow. Welcome home, Alex! 💚

Looking back on a beautiful evening at our Celebration of Learning! 🌎💚

Gathering on the court to celebrate our 8th-grade IB Pinning and our amazing Portrait of a Graduate award winners was incredibly special. 🏆

It was also wonderful seeing our students fill the classrooms to show off their hard work, projects, and art displayed throughout the night 🎨📝

It was the perfect evening to reflect on all the creativity and growth our community achieved this past school year! ❤️👏