Masfjorden Chess Tournament
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 [...]
Friluftsveka in Vangen
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 [...]
A Visitor from UWC Maastricht
It was a great pleasure to host Peter Howe (Principal of UWC Maastricht) here on campus over the past couple of days. Peter attended UWC Norge’s annual meeting in Oslo on Thursday at the invitation of Elizabeth Sellevold – and he gave a presentation on exciting new developments at our sister college. This was Peter’s first visit to our campus and, whilst here, he connected with students [...]
Physics and Maths in 2016
Two of our students, Nikita Klimenko (Belarus) and Angela Xiong (China) have reached the final round in the Norwegian Physics Olympiad. They will go to the University of Oslo for the finals together with 16 other students from the 4th - 8th April. 992 students from 105 schools have taken part in the event. (See here for more information) The results of the second round of the Abel Maths [...]
MUN Conference 2016
MUN 2016 - in the General Assembly The three-day conference began on Saturday 30th January and ended on Monday 1st of February, taking place immediately after the Red Cross First Aid PBL. Model United Nations is a simulation that adopts the way that the UN itself functions and aims to make students aware of the world’s most important trending global issues and problems. In this years [...]
On the Death of Giulio Regeni
United World College International would like to extend their condolences to Giulio Regeni’s family, friends and all those that were touched by him in the UWC community and beyond. In 2005 Giulio Regeni obtained a scholarship from the Friuli Venezia Giulia Italian regional government which enabled him to attend the UWC-USA in New Mexico. This experience inspired him to pursue his university education in England, where he [...]