Recently, students from BCS participated in BALMUN, the Baltic Model United Nations in Rostock. 170 delegates and 17 chairs from 24 nationalities participated. This year, 3 BCS students, Jillian, Sofia and Zoe also had special roles at the conference as student officers in the Environmental Committee, the Special Conference, and the Disarmament Committee respectively.
The Caribou Mathematics Competition is a world wide online Maths contest that is held throughout the school year. The aim is to improve student’s problem solving techniques by providing a wide variety of challenging problems. This year BCS students competed online against schools in Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Iran, Sudan, Sweden and the US. Five students during competitions in October, November and January came within the world top 10%. Four students are pictured here. These students were from grade 6, Ziad (top 8%) and Yannick (top 8%). From grade 7, Quinn (top 1%), and from grade 8, Michael (top 3%), and from grade 10, Oliver (top 9%).
Our Basketball girls & boys team (Grade 3-5) won 5 out of 5 matches at the ALBA Berlin- Grundschulliga WK II (2007 and younger) on Sunday, June 3! Coach and BCS sports teacher, Mr Wehrmeyer praised the great team effort. Congratulations to our fantastic Basketball team! We are so proud of you all!
Bands from BCS and the Schiller-Gymnasium in Berlin rocked the house last Thursday for one hour after lunch. All Secondary students were invited to the great rock show in the BCS concert hall featuring the bands “Confusion” and “Sep10ber” from the Berlin Cosmopolitan School and “The Chillerz” from the Schiller Gymnasium.