By Sophia Brown The first Community Gathering of 2014 brought HKIS CNN television journalist Kristie Lu Stout talking about her work covering the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. Mrs. Stout was based in Manila during Haiyan, reporting on damages, the rising death toll, and especially the survivors. Mrs. Stout’s speech emphasized the importance of focusing […]
By Yashvardhan Bardoloi The HKIS Forensics team placed second in the nine-school APAC tournament hosted by Seoul Foreign School from January 15-19. HKIS won three awards, with Forensics leader Arnesh Batlaw (Grade 11) bagging top honors in Original Oratory for his satirical speech on fame, Andrea Herman (Grade 12) placing first in Impromptu speaking, and […]
By Changwook Shim The HKIS Forensics team placed 4th place in the Chinacup Forensics competition on January 11th, 2014, hosted by Shanghai American School. In total, the team won 3 medals, with Joshua Levy (Grade 10) winning a gold medal in Extemporaneous Speech, Katherine Kwok (Grade 12) winning a silver medal in Original Oratory, and […]
By Georgette Tso The annual HKIS Service Summit that took place on Saturday, the 11th of January, featured an array of service projects and service initiatives, and served to provide Humanities 1 In Action students with inspiration as they began developing their own projects. The Humanities 1 in Action “Elixir Projects”, are societal contribution projects […]
By Caroline Scown The student body has just survived a grueling week of exams, not to mention a whole semester of typical HKIS overachieving. Several seniors have already been accepted to college, and every student is anxiously anticipating winter break. Unfortunately, instead of expediting the process, the administration has decided that testing the limits of […]
By Tik Kwun Chan After being suspended for further discussion last year, the once annual Christmas Assembly has been officially cancelled, and even though students and teachers alike have felt something important was lost, as of now, nothing concrete is planned to replace it. The decision was made a year ago in December, following […]
By Mark Duanmu Candy-grams have returned to the HKIS high school for the second year. The candy-gram initiative is led now by Charmaine Shih and Ava Miller, and advised by Mr. Kersten, as part of their senior project to get Cambodian students into college. Candy-grams are candy-canes attached to a short personal message that any […]
By Mark Duanmu Every fall, seniors around the world, including those at HKIS, scramble to complete their college applications. This year, there is a new version of the Common Application, which has been plagued by many bugs and glitches. This has caused problems for many seniors applying for early decision or early action, and […]
By Jenny Kim According to Dr. Johnson, the exams-before-Christmas policy, which was introduced last year by the department heads, will continue for this academic year and for following years. Last year, after years of consideration, the department heads decided to place exams before the Christmas break. Although the change had been requested by parents […]
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