For the second consecutive year, I have enhanced a project based on service-learning that addresses the inclusion and acceptance of people with diverse abilities (disabilities). This inspired me to share my experience with new ways to change society. On May 30th, I had the opportunity to introduce a new concept…
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JFK National Honor Society students shared a donation to the Food Bank of Querétaro
Last week, our National Honor Society (NHS) students shared a donation of $ $30,564 to the Food Bank of Querétaro IAP. This money is the result of all the projects organized by our students, such as the Bikeathon, Ping Pong Tournament, Bake-sales in the Kermesse and the Christmas Market. Thank…
Achieving the Extraordinary Award 2023-2024
Since 2015 the JFK School has celebrated Achieving Extraordinary, a program to value only those students who have achieved something exceptional in different areas like academics, sports or extracurricular activities. This year we’re going to reward two great students: Clarisa Temelo (12°) has made a name for herself as Golfer, just…
Congratulations Begoña!
Congratulations to Begoña (9th), for winning the national and international figure skating championship of FEMEPASHIDI (Federation of Ice Skating and Winter Sports, A.C.) in the Juvenile D category. It is a great achievement, earned through her effort and dedication. ———————————– Muchas felicidades a Begoña (9°), por obtener el campeonato nacional…
“The Creation of Contemporary Short Stories as a Means of Evaluating Literary Learning”, Ilse Priego
Ilse Priego, High School teacher, presented the virtual lecture “The Creation of Contemporary Short Stories as a Means of Evaluating Literary Learning” as part of the 14th Language Symposium organized by the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In this presentation, she discussed the work done…
CAS Project at the Montenegro Community Center / Proyecto CAS en el centro comunitario Montenegro
What is it about? Our Service project at the Montenegro community center is mainly about supporting primary and secondary school children in their homework club and teaching courses. In our case, we did a workshop on personal hygiene habits. What was a memorable moment? Something that really impressed us was…
My experience with community service: Rebe & Isa
Our HS atudents, Rebeca and Isabella, share their experience at CAS project How did the idea for a creative writing workshop come about? “While interacting with the children at Escuela de Jurica during our community service, we noticed a great interest and creativity in many of them, but also a…
Congratulations Luis!!
It is a pleasure to share that our youngest high school students are motivated to participate in pre-university activities, as is the case of Luis Armando from 9th, who participated in 4 session “Pre-Engineering Camp” organized by Universidad Anáhuac and he had the opportunity to interact with students from MIT…
First Design Expo of the 9th grade of 2024!
For 3 months, our 9th grade students worked on the “The Storage Project”. This project tackled a real issue: the lack of space to store materials. They started by researching, developing ideas, and finally building full-scale cardboard prototypes. The students faced the challenge of turning ideas into drawings and then…
Springtime in Prague: “Creativity, Activity and Service” / Primavera en Praga: “Creatividad, Actividad y Servicio”
CAS, is one of the core components of the International Baccalaureate program that allows for acquiring meaningful learning from experience. The program inspires students to confront real-life situations to broaden their perspective of the world around them and to become citizens willing to take action by showing social commitment to…