UWC RCN Boad Meeting

2018-10-16T09:31:43+01:00November 27th, 2017|

Signing the Agreement

Signing the Agreement

The RCN Board met for a quarterly meeting at the SOS Children’s Villages office in Oslo on Friday 23 November. The board members were given a presentation by Bente Lier, Secretary General of SOS CV.

Since 1995, over 50 students from SOS Children’s Villages across the world have studied at RCN – and been supported by the college and Vibeke L’Orsa Mortensen.

On Friday, a Memorandum of Understanding between UWC RCN and SOS Children’s Villages Norway was signed by Bente Lier and the chair of the College Board, Kristin Vinje – signaling both institutions’ commitment to developing the partnership in the years ahead.

The ENOVA Competition 2017

2018-10-16T09:31:44+01:00November 23rd, 2017|

A team of five RCN students – Ilaria (Italy), Jennifer (Hong Kong), Mirandas (China), Sara (Italy), and Yash (UAE) – participated in the county round of the ENOVA competition. The competition, held annually, is for raising awareness about sustainable technologies and renewable energy use. Teams from local high schools compete to come up with an innovative and feasible solution for a certain task. The jury marks the teams on their knowledge in the topic, their level of innovation, their entrepreneurial approach and the quality of the presentation.

Our students had 3.5 hours for the task and came up with a solution for a green ferry system and created a website (available here) about their idea that covers all aspects of a new ferry system, from innovative redesign of boats, through using hydrogen fuels cells to the hydrogen production on docks that made the idea unique and feasible.

The RCN team came the second in the competition. Congratulations to the team for their amazing performance and for the wonderful solution for the task.

The team took the opportunity of being in Forde and visited the Protolab Vest, a small but well-equipped prototype lab built for youth to explore technology and their creativity.

SANMUN 2017 in Sandefjord

2017-11-21T10:48:19+01:00November 21st, 2017|

On the weekend of 4th to 5th of November, a delegation of UWC RCN students attended the SANMUN (Sandefjord and Nesbru Model United Nations) Conference in Sandefjord. In this simulation, the following RCN students represented France in various committees: Ayanda (Cayman Islands), Brodi (Sweden), Hrafnhildur (Norway) and Htet Htet (Myanmar). On behalf of the team, Htet Htet shares this video for an impression of the conference and Hrafnhildur offers her reflections:

At 0500 in the morning Friday the 3rd of November we were four very tired second year students that were ready to go. We were going to Sandefjord Model United Nations, a MUN conference hosted around two hours outside Oslo by a Norwegian IB school. Even though we really appreciated getting fast food during our stop in Oslo, it was very nice to arrive in Sandefjord after a long day of travelling. We were placed with host families with students from the local school, and they were very welcoming and took great care of us. A big thanks to them for making us feel so at home! The conference started with some interesting guest speakers after which we moved into our respective committees. We were representing France in DISEC, UNEP, SOCHUM and UNHRC discussing topics ranging from clearing the oceans of trash, to immigration policies and nuclear disarmament. Even though the format was unfamiliar to all of us, we learned a lot from debating and discussing outside the safety and familiarity of UWC RCN. It was a great chance to interact with local Norwegian youth and to see another part of Norway. We had a great time, and at the end we had a General Assembly with all participants. The resolution that Brodi submitted passed, and Ayanda was awarded best speaker of UNEP. A great conclusion to the conference!

After the team returned to campus, the SANMUN director contacted UWC RCN to say, “…your students were superb!!! They did a wonderful job and they were role models to ours. We have a few of ours that are so inspired by your students that they would be interested to find out about possibilities to attend your MUN conference”.

Many thanks to Ayanda, Brodi, Hrafnhildur and Htet Htet for their great contributions!

Nordic National Committees

2017-11-20T15:27:12+01:00November 20th, 2017|

It was a pleasure to host the Nordic National Committees (representatives from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Åland) on campus for their Annual General Meeting this weekend. Their itinerary included connecting with students, meeting for their AGM and with members of the Education Management Team and the Admissions Development Team, attending the Christmas lights event and the joint production of ‘The Paperbag Princess’ delivered by RCN and the Bergen National Opera.

We are looking forward to working together, following encouraging discussions, to launch a Nordic Short Course in 2018 – this would give us the opportunity to extend our UWC impact and to take advantage of our spectacular campus in the summer and facilities.

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