showcase week
The IB Showcase Week is a vital component of the IBDP, allowing students to present their final projects in displays and presentations. It provides an opportunity for them to reflect critically on their learning experiences and offers junior secondary students a preview of the senior secondary journey that awaits them.
During the Showcase Week this year, we welcomed alumnus Martin Bates from our Class of 2018, who shared his insights on the challenges and advantages of the IBDP as a graduate who chose to study his undergraduate degree in Business & Economics at the Freie Universität in Berlin, followed by his Masters in Sustainable Finance at Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Die IB Showcase Week ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil des IBDP und bietet den Schülern die Möglichkeit, ihre Abschlussprojekte und Präsentationen vorzustellen. Sie bietet ihnen die Möglichkeit, ihre Lernerfahrungen kritisch zu reflektieren und gibt den Schülern der Junior Secondary einen Vorgeschmack auf das, was sie in der Senior Secondary erwartet.
Während der diesjährigen Showcase-Woche begrüßten wir den Alumnus Martin Bates aus unserer Klasse 2018, der seine Erkenntnisse über die Herausforderungen und Vorteile des IBDP als Absolvent teilte, der sich für einen Bachelor-Abschluss in Business & Economics an der Freien Universität in Berlin und einen anschließenden Master-Abschluss in Sustainable Finance in Utrecht in den Niederlanden entschied.
IB SHOWCASE WEEK - ENGINEERING WITHOUT BORDERS STEM WORKSHOP
On Monday of Week 9 GISS senior students participated in a UNSW outreach Engineering without borders STEM workshop. The following activities occurred:
Prosthetic Leg: a biomedical engineering activity where students worked in small teams to design and build their own prosthetic leg from common household materials. Students attempted to walk using their makeshift prosthetic leg, giving them an appreciation for the challenges real people in these situations would face.
Renewable energy: a renewable energy engineering activity where students created a prototype wind turbine that could be tested to show LED lights glowing proportionally to the energy generated.
Code For Disaster Relief: electrical/software engineering activity where students built an electric circuit and wrote code to program an Arduino that emulates a search and rescue device.
Safe structures: a humanitarian engineering activity where students were able to plan and design a tower structure that considered maximising both height and structural integrity to be able to remain intact after going through simulated flood, earthquake and cyclone simulation tests. Students needed to consider the design factors of durable infrastructure for individuals affected by extraordinary natural disasters around the world.
This workshop saw both Year 11 and 12 students working collaboratively to deliver their model and were also interacting well with the university presenters.
Year 10 students were introduced to all things CAS by the Year 12 students, who were delivering this workshop with dedication, commitment and great tips for the Year 10’s.
They had various activities to complete and rotated around each of the Year 12 presenters and they came together at the end for an overview of all the groups different ideas.
CAS WORKSHOP - INTRODUCING THE YEAR 10 Students TO CAS
ib art exhibition
Overall, the IB art exhibition was a very enjoyable and a vital learning experience for all involved and the GISS community was equally impressed with the amount of work the students had put in and how it all unfolded.
I would like to personally congratulate the Year 12 students on their efforts and thank everyone else who was involved. Congratulations!
Melinda Jordi, Art teacher
The Year 12 Visual Art students of 2024 put together a highly impressive art exhibition which showcased their work they have been doing over the last two years.
For HL students, there was a large collection of nostalgic memories, intersections of physics and the human experience, an interpretation of the juxtaposition between war and tranquillity, with aesthetically crafted influences of Ukrainian folk art and personal responses to this.
The SL students produced a body of work which were thought provoking scenes on consumerism, well manipulated pieces on different perspectives, aiming to challenge how viewers interpret visual experiences, and a comprehensive look at cultural experiences, sense of place, identity and memory.