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Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy company history timeline

1989

September 1989: Under the leadership of Richard Johnson, our first head of school, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy (CHCA) opens its doors to 165 students, preschool through grade 7.

The school was founded, in large part by Cincinnati businessman Carl Lindner, Jr., in 1989 on a 25-acre (100,000 m) plot of land.

1992

1992: The Edyth B. Lindner Elementary School is built just down the hill from the main campus to house pre-kindergarten through grade four.

1994

1994: The first ever Celebration dinner and auction is held at CHCA’s middle school, entertaining 430 guests and raising $185,821.

1995

June 1995: CHCA graduates its first class of 29 students, who hear an address from commencement speaker Elizabeth Dole.

1997

1997: Edyth B. Lindner Elementary School is designated a Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education.

1997: Karen Hordinski, CHCA’s first staff member dedicated to outreach, forms the Outreach Student Leadership Team with 17 students who work on generating community service opportunities for students benefiting the homeless, elderly, disabled and more.

1999

April 1999: CHCA’s middle school and EBL Elementary sustain major damage when a tornado (with wind speeds up to 260 mph) rips through Cincinnati.

2000

CHCA’s Otto Armleder Memorial Education Center would open its doors in August 2000.

September 2000: The Middle School (now Founders’ Campus) is named a Blue Ribbon School.

2001

January 2001: The high school engages in the first Winter Term experience, a two week period in which every freshman, sophomore, junior and senior participates in alternative learning experiences.

2001: The MSL High School becomes the 3rd CHCA school to earn the Blue Ribbon School designation.

2003

January 2003: The five-year Campaign for Lasting Change is kicked off, seeking to raise $15 million to endow the Armleder School’s Student Scholarship Fund.

July 2003: Randy Brunk, M.Ed. is named CHCA Head of School.

2006

March 2006: Carl Lindner, Jr. donates an additional $16 million to the Armleder School, enabling the school to expand its offerings to include scholarships and programming for grades 7 and 8.

2007

October 2007: CHCA celebrates its first Founders’ Day, twenty years from the month that the school’s founders first gathered to plan the school.

2008

September 2008: SoaringStart Preschool opens within EBL Elementary with one full class of three-year-olds and one full class of four-year-olds.

December 2008: The high school campus is named Martha S. Lindner High School in honor of the commitment and heart of the Lindner family for Christ-centered academic excellence.

In 2008, a $3 million addition to the high school began.

2010

October 2010: Armleder School celebrates its Tenth Anniversary of being “A Light in the City”.

2013

2013: The Carl and Martha Lindner Armleder Alumni Scholarship was established.

2013: CHCA student Alex O’Brien ’17 had an idea and out of that a sustainable organic garden grew, providing fresh fruits and vegetables to local families in need.

2013: The Leaning Eagle is open for business.

2014

February 2014: CHCA’s annual fundraiser, Celebration Auction and Dinner hits a milestone of $2,500,000 over the course of its 20-year history.

2015

Winter 2015: CHCA’s Robotics team, The Beak Squad wins $10K in a FedEx challenge and competes and places in the top 5th in the world at the FIRST World’s Competition in St Louis, MO.

2016

Hence, the school’s first Senior Capstone Project was born on September 15th 2016: Animated Fountain Capstone Engineering Project.

By the Summer of 2016, the campaign had reached nearly $9 million in funding.

Fall 2016: What began as a paper exercise to represent the culmination of a Fluid Mechanics Unit in AP Physics, an ambitious group of seniors were tasked to “think like an engineer” and design a decorative fountain.

2017

Winter 2017: CHCA Upper School’s second entrepreneurial venture, Blend Smoothie Bar, opens to the public.

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