Student Council Transition Weekend

2018-10-16T09:32:42+01:00April 14th, 2016|

The old team - gazing off into their responsibility-free futures...

The outgoing Student Council members – gazing off into their responsibility-free futures…

Last weekend, the outgoing RCN Student invited the incoming Student Council to a handover / training weekend on the island of Værlandet. This has become an excellent tradition in recent years at RCN – at this time last year, a highly successful ‘retreat’ was held at Heggnes (on the side of the Dalsfjord). Both Councils will be actively involved later this week in hosting our UWC RCN Council members and attending and participating in various workshops on careers beyond RCN and on the College’s strategic action plan. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our outgoing Student Council for their invaluable contribution over the course of the last academic year and to welcome the incoming team.

(Photos by Balder Morsund … he should have been in the pictures too!)

The week of Ridderrennet 2016

2018-10-16T09:32:42+01:00April 14th, 2016|

Sina Tenold, a member of the ‘Knights’ Extra-academic commitment which enables participating students to have amazing experiences in the local nature, as well as going further afield, has written the following thoughts having returned from Ridderrennet – the world’s largest winter sports event for visually impaired and differently-abled athletes.

The scene at Ridderrennet

The Knights are  back on campus after a great a great experience at Ridderuka. The week ended with Ridderrennet itself where all our competitors had excellent results. Mohammed (Iraq) and Mean (Cambodia) both won events in their class. Belén (Spain) did her first ever 10 km on skis and managed to win her class at the same time! Melvin (El Salvador) improved his previous time for the 20 km race by over 2 hours and by doing that won the silver medal in his class.

The volunteers, who did a great job as hosts in the restaurant, finished their week with an amazing day in the sun, getting a tan to match their bright, orange hoodies. The group want to thank all the staff, especially Hilde, our EAC-leader, and Ben for helping with organization and making this week possible.

Goalball Tournament at the College

2018-10-16T09:32:43+01:00April 14th, 2016|

The Goalball PlayersGoalball is a Paralympic sport in which the blind can play with the sighted – as the sighted participants are blindfolded. We learned about Goalball from our long-term partners and friends at the Laski Institute – a school for the blind and visually impaired in Poland. We have had many exchanges with this partner school, and Goalball has been part of all of them! We continue playing at the College, as one of our goals is to promote this inclusive, exciting sport in Norway. We have regular practice sessions every Sunday night and, as an end of term celebration, we decided to organize an Inter-House competition. Each House has some experienced players, so the level was high with the final match between Iceland and Norway House.

Even though Iceland House won, the Norway House Team displayed very high competence and won an award for the most sporting behaviour.

A Winner at the Physics Olympiad

2016-04-11T05:33:11+01:00April 11th, 2016|

Congratulations to Nikita Klimenko (UWC RCN first year – Belarus) for winning the Physics Olympiad 2016 in Norway. Nikita and Angela Xiong (UWC RCN first year – China) and fourteen other finalists were invited to participate in the final round of the Norwegian Physics Olympiad at the University of Oslo in early April.  992 students from 105 schools across Norway took part in this year’s competition – this was the first time that RCN students have taken part in the competition. We were delighted to learn that Nikita was the overall winner of the competition – and he will now represent Norway at the next stage of the Olympiad.

For more information, please click on this news article.

 

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