BUA’s robotics team, the Lobstah Bots, netted some impressive accolades this year! Coco M. ’26 shares the following season recap. The Lobstah Bots’ 2025 season has come to an end. After 13 weeks of engineering an entirely new robot, dubbed Beluga, Team 246 has finished its best season since 2016. Build season started on the […]
On Wednesday evening, Boston University Academy hosted its first-ever Early Music Concert in the spectacular Marsh Chapel at the heart of BU’s campus. The concert featured our Early Music Ensemble, Sonus, with special guests Vox Caeli, Polytropos, and our very own Dr. Kristin Jewell. The program comprised music from the 1st century AD through the […]
On Giving Day 2025, the BUA community showed up in full force –– and proved what’s possible when we rally around a shared purpose. While we came just shy of our 500-donor goal with 448 total donors, the generosity of our community unlocked our first four challenge levels and raised a record-breaking $121,040 for BUA’s top […]
Over March break, 51 students and 9 adults traveled to Roatán, Greece, and Arizona as part of BUA’s Global Travel Program, which emphasizes hands-on, experiential learning, and relevance to the BUA curriculum. View complete photo albums from the 2025 spring break here: Roatán | Greece | Arizona Home base for the Roatán trip, led by […]
This weekend, seven BUA students — Alex ’26, Shaun ’27, Kelsey ’26, Isha ’27, Clair ’28, Daniel ’27, and Ben ’26 — competed in the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament (HMMT). The HMMT is one of the most prestigious and challenging high school math competitions in the world, bringing together top young mathematicians to tackle complex problems […]
BUA’s Girls Basketball brought home the GIL Championship for the second year running! On February 13, our BUA Terriers beat out BISB 29-21 last night at home, capping a phenomenal season. Special shout out to our seniors — Celine ’25, Mira ’25, Rose ’25, and Ylan ’25 — on an amazing finish to their BUA […]
Congratulations to our 14 Model UN delegates who attended last weekend’s Boston Model United Nations (BosMUN) XXIV conference! This year’s BosMUN was the largest ever, with more than 2,500 delegates from domestic and international high schools. Clair ’28 and Nikki ’27 both earned third place in their respective committees, The Economic and Social Committee for […]
On February 4, a cohort of six BUA students and two chaperones traveled to Washington, DC, to attend the Close Up Foundation and NAIS’ Student Civic Leadership Summit. Under the guidance of program instructors, Betty ’26, Bella ’25, Reeya ’26, Lucas ’25, Angelique ’26, and Lani ’26 considered a variety of viewpoints on pressing current […]
As the sole student representative and a full voting member on the Massachusetts Board of Elementary & Secondary Education (BESE), BUA senior Yiannis Asikis has an outsize impact on shaping the future of education in the Commonwealth. The mission of BESE is to strengthen Massachusetts’ public education system so that every student is prepared to […]
On February 1-2 , BUA hosted its 13th annual BUA Model UN conference for Boston-area middle schoolers, offering “a place for the next generation of diplomats to tackle real world problems, both past and present.” Organized by Secretariat leaders Yiannis ’25, Bella ’25, Ryan ’25 and Sofia ’26, the conference welcomed over 150 middle school […]