THROUGH THE LENS OF THE STUDENT: PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB TAKES FLIGHT
The first-ever student-led photography club at Qingdao Amerasia International School develops creative talent and a sense of service among its members. Created by Ryoichi, a Grade 10 student, the club forms part of students’ Service as Action plan, whereby student’s volunteer their time and skills to a creative endeavour which benefits their community and themselves […]
21st CENTURY COMMUNICATORS
By Comine Howe MYP 5 students were collaborative communicators, using smartphone photos to create their Photo Poetry. Hazel Lee, MYP English, introduced the Korean trend ‘DiCa-Poetry’ to her MYP 5 (Grade 10 Class) and had students creatively thinking about poetry. DiCA Poetry is short for digital camera poetry; where personal photos are used to write […]
“NOT-SO-ALIVE-LONG” LOVE OF LEARNING
By Comine Howe MMUN-electives (Montessori Model United Nations) have kicked off for MYP (grades 6 -10), and Humanities teachers, Bill Murray, Penelope James and Giovanni Romeo, are getting students excited about MMUN as students are faced with the task of preventing a Zombie Pandemic! Through the process of role-playing, each student becomes a delegate of […]
Make-X Robot Competition 2k18 – “A great example of sportsmanship”
This year’s trip to Make X robot competition was full of challenges, joy, excitement, determination and of course a test of patience for all of us. We all faced different challenges in different areas throughout this competition that tested our problem solving and critical thinking skills. We were constantly facing problems with the functioning of […]
QAIS robotics take the World Championship by storm | QAIS机器人风靡世锦赛
Two QAIS teams competed in the MakeX Robotics World Championship held in Guangzhou, China from December 6 to 9, 2018. The numbers of this competition are staggering: 10.000 contestants in 3000 teams from 20 Countries and 50 cities and an online audience of 2,000,000 online! 2018年12月6日至9日，两支QAIS团队参加了在中国广州举行的MakeX机器人世界锦标赛。 这次比赛的参赛人数令人震惊:来自20个国家和50个城市的3000支球队的10000名选手和200万在线观众! With such fierce competition, we are very proud […]
Empowering and Protecting Digital Citizens
In addition to our task of building, maintaining, and monitoring our technology systems at QAIS, our technology team also wishes to support students and families in their efforts to be safe and productive digital citizens. We hope to equip students and families with tools and resources for best practices in using technology to enhance our […]
