Our eleventh Solidarity Half Marathon was held at the College on February 28th. From the start 21.1 km away on the road to Rysjedalsvika, twenty-five participants made their way from snowy roads in the higher ground down into bright sunshine and firmer footing in the latter stages. Nik Schelling of Italy ran the fastest time ever recorded by a student from the College, crossing the finish line [...]

It is very exciting that UWC Red Cross Nordic is this week hosting its own Board for a quarterly meeting as well as the UWC International Board and other guests (including representatives of other schools and colleges who are seeking approval for UWC membership – and the respective Task Forces charged with the role of evaluating these applications). Part of the challenge was to come and visit [...]

In most science classes students work alone or in pairs; the purpose of the Group 4 project is to introduce students to the idea that science is a group activity performed by teams and that do not always comprise of just physicists, biologists or chemists but a mixture of scientists from different disciplines plus mathematicians, economists even musicians and artists. In IB speak the aim is to: “encourage [...]

It is with great pleasure that today we announce a partnership between the Norwegian Red Cross and UWC Red Cross Nordic. RCN has been invited to be an integral part of the local Red Cross Førstehjelpsgruppa / First Response Team. This means that our trained Red Cross second year first aiders and the Coordinator / other staff will be part of the local emergency services available in term [...]

Eventual winner Philip Sumner deep in thought ... a strategy emerging? A party of fourteen from RCNUWC - students and a member of staff - played in the Masfjorden Grand Prix Chess Tournament over three days February 19-21. Six rounds were played in a Swiss system with a Buchholtz tie breaker. Six of us finished in the top eleven places and received prizes. They were [...]

Friluftsveke - one of the ski groups Relaxation, freedom, time, friends, sports, fun, nature, challenges, reading, adventure, snow, sunshine, fresh air – those are some of the impressions from students trying to summarize the Friluftsveka we have just had, in one word. For five days we had the opportunity to discover the nature surrounding us in a very special way. While half of the first-years went [...]