Roving Fulbright Scholar
Flannery Burke, a UWC-USA graduate and currently a Roving Fulbright Scholar in Norway, has been visiting the College. Flannery was invited to address the community at the start of the 'Happiness' Global Concerns Day - talking about what makes her happy. As her subject she chose Light; specifically the clear, bright light of Los Angeles [...]
A Trip to Rome
Second year student Lina Sadovskaja from Lithuania entered a competition sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The competition required that participants submit a text, video, audio clip or image on the theme of Europe in 2030. Lina submitted the New Year address from the President of the European Parliament in the year 2030 and hers was [...]
Red Cross in Førde
On the evening of 14 March students from the College were warmly welcomed by members of the Red Cross Youth in Førde who had organised a gathering to welcome two Youth Delegates from Colombia who will be engaged in local Red Cross activities for the next two months. Our three Colombians, Yerson, Yeison, and Andres, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]