Local Cooperation
Sogndal County Fair - Iman (L) and Jasmine (R) with the Fiskekake Burger prize winners! Our student run organizations, SAFUGE, DROP and LEAF were represented at the County Fair for youth entrepreneurship in Sogndal last week; an occasion to see on what, and how, other student companies (Ungdomsbedrifter) are working. It was also an opportunity to talk about our own activities. Måløy Videregåande had won [...]
The Abel Prize
We are very proud and grateful that our students are able to take part in the Annual Norwegian Maths Competition - the Abel Prize. The Olympiad consists of two selection rounds and a final round. In the first round, the participants receive twenty problems, each with a choice of five answers, to be solved in 100 minutes. The best 10% of the participants are then granted entry [...]
Gender Week
As part of Gender Week, the organizing team invited the president of the Harry Benjamin Resource Center (HBRS, a foundation working for the rights of transgender people), Tone Maria Hansen, to give a World Today presentation on gender identity. During the last decade, Tone Maria has been featured in various newspaper articles and in a TV-broadcast documentary, Absolutt Tone Maria, and can be seen as one of [...]
UKM 2014
Eduardo during the competition UKM (The Norwegian Youth Festival of Arts) for the Fjaler municipality was this year held together with the municipalities of Askvoll and Gaular in the near-to-the-College town of Askvoll. Some students from the College came along to the event to see the show and support the four RCN students who were participating. Dasha (Russian Federation) and Tenzin (Tibet) performed a dance, [...]
A Donation to DROP
Members of 'Dialog as' 'Dialogue as' in Sola and Drude Berentsen, one of their members, has sent 3000kr in support of DROP, one of our student organisations and their work to support Sakyikrom United Primary school in Ghana. This is a tremendous contribution to the work of DROP, so a big thanks to Drude and her colleagues on behalf of all who will benefit from this. [...]
A Lucky Accident
It all began by accident. Literally. First year student Åge Frivoll went on a project week and had to return to Oslo to get his braces repaired after he was hit by a surfboard. He was sharing a room with an SOS student who had no computer, and while home he got a computer from his sister to give to his roommate. Then he started wondering how [...]