Local Cooperation

2018-10-16T09:33:47+01:00March 11th, 2014|

Sogndal County Fair - Iman (L) and Jasmine (R) with the Fiskekake Burger prize winners!

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 a competition that included major commercial companies to develop fish products  – one of their products was Fiskekake-burger!

We also got to know about projects with a strong humanitarian profile. At Flora Videregåande they are running a regular sports activity for immigrants – “Trimigration”, and they are supporting the running of a school in Malawi. We see much potential for local co-operation on projects with international involvement.

The Abel Prize

2014-03-24T20:00:40+01:00March 10th, 2014|

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 to the second round.  This Academic Year we had twenty-five students participating in Round 1 on November 7th, 2013 – out of a total of 3474 participants from 234 schools. Ten of them qualified for the 2nd Round on 16th January among the 345 participants from the rest of Norway, and three were invited to the finals in Trondheim on March 4th  with 25 other contestants.
Our congratulations go to Ricardo Montalvo Guzman who was placed 4th, to Yaojie Hu who was placed 5th, and Gong Pei who was 10th overall.
This year, Prime Minister Erna Solberg was present at the Prize Ceremony.

 

Gender Week

2018-10-16T09:33:48+01:00March 8th, 2014|

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 the leading figures of the Norwegian transgender movement. We were delighted to host her on this, her fourth visit to the College.

Among the many other activities and events held during the week – films, discussions and presentations – the Gender Week team, collaborating with The Publishing Cabin,  have produced ‘A Brief Illustrated Herstory of Womankind’. Read it here.

UKM 2014

2018-10-16T09:33:48+01:00March 6th, 2014|

Eduardo Campbell from Panama during the competition

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, Martin (Norway) was doing stand-up and Eduardo (Panama) was singing. The show was spectacular with performances that ranged from singing, dancing, bands and art pieces to comedy acts. The participants from the school all gave fantastic performances and Eduardo sang a Spanish song that captured the hearts of the audience and won him a ticket to the next stage of the competition.

Congratulations to all who took part and to Astrid Ardagh and Thea Sæterdal for helping to organise our involvement.

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