Kainat (RCN ’17-’19)
UWC Red Cross Nordic is Kainat’s tenth school. The frequent school changes were not a result of the family moving to new places but came from her desire to get a good quality education. She is the first born to a family of three children and started reading books at an early age. [...]
IB Visual Arts Exhibition
After two intense years of practice and creation, the 2nd years Visual Art students had their Final exhibition on Sunday the 7th of April. The community had the pleasure to walk through a transformed Hoegh and witness an exhibition full of talent, creativity, and diversity in style and mediums. A rewarding and overwhelming [...]
Outdoor Leadership
The Outdoor Leaders in training went on their 5th trip over the weekend of 30th March. It was spring skiing: an overnight trip with the aim to ski in steeper terrain with more complex route-finding, needing an awareness of avalanche danger. Recent days of high winds had warned us that avalanche danger might be [...]
Dignity and Dignitaries
This, year's annual Mandela Lecture was given by Evelin Lindner in our auditorium March 29th, on the theme - From Humiliation to Dignity: for a Future of Solidarity. Equality in dignity was a central concept in Evelin's address to the students, or to use a Norwegian term: Likeverd. This both resembles and is [...]
RCN – ‘Young Researchers’
The organisation Unge Forskere ("Young Researchers") run an annual competition throughout Norway, inviting applicants attending upper secondary school to submit their research projects. The IB Extended Essay format lends itself appropriately to research at this level. Of 153 projects submitted by upper secondary students nation-wide, 24 were selected as finalists, including five RCN [...]
Education Makes Visible
Something unique about the UWC as an educational movement, is the cooperation between the Colleges and the National Committees NC. We are fortunate to have strong NCs in all Nordic countries and work closely with them to to increase the impact we have in our region. On March 14th, 2019, we co-hosted an [...]