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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]