Newsletter from the Director Feb-2023 / Carta de la Directora Feb-2023

Dear AIS Community,

Receive our best wishes for a year full of success and joy in 2023. We welcome the new families that have joined AIS in November, December and January, we appreciate your preference and we are at your service for any questions you may have. Welcome to our multicultural community!

We congratulate Isabella Chavarría (8th grade) for obtaining 1st place in the Creative Task Challenge of Carnegie Mellon University. This is great news and an excellent result for the first time that AIS participated in this worldwide competition. Many thanks to Ms. Eve and Ms. Gloria, who guided Isabella in this project.

We also congratulate our Model United Nations representatives for the invitation to the session in Geneva, Switzerland which they attended in January. At this time the group has just returned from Boston, after participating in the Harvard MUN Conference (which took place at Harvard University), and they soon will start preparing for the first AIS MUN event. We thank Mr. Bustos, Ms. Fio and the MUN students for the effort that has resulted in the great projection of our team. Go Falcons!

Student-teachers from different classes of the Faculty of Education of the University of Saint Thomas (USA) visited our school inJanuary. They had their first internship experience under the guidance of AIS educators. These sessions allowed our students to deal with different teaching styles, while our staff had the opportunity to act as mentors and share best practices in education.

Below, you will find a summary of the Activities Scheduled for February 2023:

– Wed, Feb-01 Picture Day for Seniors
– Thu, Feb-02 Picture Day for new students, staff and class photos
– Thu, Feb-02 @ 7pm Meeting with parents of students traveling to Space Camp
– Fri, Feb-03 @ 8am Monthly Meeting Governance Committee
– Mon, Feb-06 @ 8am Assembly: Back to School and Honor Roll
– Mon, Feb-06 @ 3:15pm After School begins
– Tue, Feb-07 Field Trip 12th grade – Class: AP Government and Politics
– Fri, Feb-10 @ 8am Monthly Meeting Finance Committee
– Sat, Feb-11 FAMILY DAY 2023
– Mon, Feb-13 @ 8am Monthly Meeting Academic Committee
– Tue, Feb-14 Dress Down and Valegrams sponsored by Seniors
– Tue, Feb-14 @ 6:30pm Monthly Meeting Board of Directors
– Thu, Feb-16 @ 2pm Monthly Meeting PTO
– Sat-18 through Fri-24 Space Camp 2023 – 4th to 9th grade students
– Mon, Feb-20 US Holiday (President’s Day) – school and offices will be closed
– Wed, Feb-22 Entrepreneur Day – support our students’ businesses!
– Sat-25 through Sun-26 AIS MUN – Model United Nations Conference at AIS
– Tue, Feb-28 Bake Sale sponsored by Stuko

If you have any question related to this information, please contact your Homeroom Teacher.
New teachers have joined AIS this semester, we will introduce them in a separate message.