
Kick Bucs Student Voices
Our Podcast students host interesting conversations with current and former students and staff at Charlotte Country Day School AND every once and a while a name the general public may even recognize!
Episodes
132 episodes
CCDS Student Voices: Bridget Siesel
Bridget Siesel is a Senior 2D art student who has been working on their finale art project for their capstone student art exhibit. Today, she sat down to talk about her process and vision behind her pieces.
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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6:38

CCDS Student Voices: Johnny Barquin
Johnny Barquin is a Senior 2D/Design art student who has been working on their finale art project for their capstone student art exhibit. Today, he sat down to talk about his process and vision behind his pieces.
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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7:44

CCDS Student Voices: Austin Riess
Austin Riess is a Junior who took AP Photography this year and chose the image “Splash Shot” as his submission for the 2025 Capstone Project. It is an interesting contrast of the neatness of the golf strike and the thoughts in the athlete's hea...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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6:39

CCDS Student Voices: Zaria Ried
Zaria Ried is a senior special projects student. Special projects is a student lead class with a teacher as a supervisor. In special projects the curriculum is created individually by the student. Zaria combined digital art and collaging to cre...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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5:48

CCDS Student Voices: Annika Mermans
Achilles talks with Art Student, Annika Mermans about her Capstone Art project.
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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2:28

CCDS Student Voices: Sophie Martin
Sophie Martin is a senior AP 2D art student. In AP 2D Art students must complete sustained investigations and come up with a question to theme their artwork on. They then create a collection of assorted pieces to answer the question. Her sustai...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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7:54

CCDS Student Voices: With Akansha Swamy
AP Sculpture student Akansha Swamy designed her final portfolio around various childhood myths and folklore and their histories. Her art is both whimsical and dark, given the backgrounds of certain myths, like the Tooth Fairy. Each piece tells ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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3:40

CCDS Student Voices: Alice Stewart
AP Sculpture student Alice Stewart shares the journey of creating and the thought behind her final portfolio for class: pieces telling the story of a mother-daughter relationship from conception to adulthood, through both its ups and downs. Her...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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6:09

CCDS Student Voices: With Penelope Cole
AP Sculpture student Penelope Cole discusses the inspiration behind her final portfolio, which consists of several replications of different body parts: the lungs, the head, the digestive system, etc. Her art utilizes many different sorts of me...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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3:05

Tips w/ Tadd Daniel at Charlotte Country Day School
You may not know too much about Charlotte Country Day Upper School instructor Tadd Daniel who is a history and yearbook teacher... but between the pages of history books, he has quite the history himself. Your host sophomore Julia Mazeine '26 t...
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Season 4
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Episode 37
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18:02

Path to Pro: Golf w/ Country Day Connections
How do you play golf in college? Once there, what does it take to make it on the PGA Tour? Your host Sophomore Austin Riess talks to two special guests to find out. His first guest is Senior Charlie O’Shea who is currently committed to play at ...
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Season 4
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Episode 41
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44:33

IB/AP & Senior MOSAICS Art Show: Spring 2024
Some say art is in the eye of the beholder, but what if you could hear from the actual artist? Join host Chibuike Ihekaire '26 as he talks to the Chartlotte Country Day School artists involved in Mosaic: the AP-IB-Senior Art Show for Spri...
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Season 4
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51:52

Weddington Farm w/ Public Speaking & Podcasting Students
A field trip to Weddington Farm quickly shows Charlotte Country Day Upper School students why this is quickly becoming an off-site learning center for students of all ages! These Public Speaking and Podcasting students began harvesting some bok...
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Season 4
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Episode 40
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9:55

Blast from the past: Nancy Ehringhaus
Charlotte Country Day has many legends that have walked our campus, but one very special person joined host Parker Justice ‘26 in the recording studio to share her story. Director of Admissions Nancy Ehringhaus has served this community for 40 ...
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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21:16

Stats w/ Troj: Laura Trojan CCDS Math Teacher
Teaching math to high school students may not sound like a lot of fun to some, but Charlotte Country Day teacher Laura Trojan has fun with her classes. She even makes math fun no matter what it takes! (One math game may have led to a concussion...
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20:08
