High School Play, MUN Impact, ASIAC Music/Badminton/Table Tennis, WSC, & Operation Smile Mission

Friday and Saturday you can catch the high school play. The Visit runs Friday, 30 November at 6:30pm and Saturday, 1 December at 2:00pm. Tickets are on sale in the main reception office for Rs. 100.

MUN Impact is a new club this year.  Unlike Model United Nations, whose focus is developing student leadership, debate, analysis, negotiation and public speaking skills, MUN Impact's focus is outward -- on making changes locally that reflect the goals of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs.  While the Chennai chapter of the club is new, they already have been highlighted on the MUN Impact's website.

ASIAC Badminton and Table Tennis head to the tournament next week.  I'll share the links for the live feeds for those events here as soon as I have them.

ASIAC Music is here at AISC.  Students from ASB and AES will arrive on Thursday and depart on Sunday.  Everyone is welcome to attend the performance on Saturday.

World Scholar’s Cup Tournament of Champions
Four of our students took part in the World Scholar’s Cup Tournament of Champions at Yale University in the USA November 16-21. The students started their involvement in the World Scholar’s Cup last year and earned places to compete at the Tournament of Champions. Congratulations to the following students:
Lokeshwar, Sajiv Reddy, Emi: Team Writing, Silver Team; Debate, Silver; Bowl
AV Quiz, Silver.
Loki: Challenge, 2 Silvers; Writing, Silver
Sajiv: Writing, Silver
Emi: Individual Debate, Gold; Writing, Silver

Finally, next week six high school students will travel to northern India to participate in supporting cleft lip and cleft palette surgeries through the Operation Smile club.  We're proud of their work to spread hope to those less fortunate.

Marveling at what goes on

On Wednesday morning at 7 AM I was simply amazed at how alive the campus was.  there were over 70 middle school students practicing for ASIAC Badminton and Table Tennis.  There were another 16 students in the pool -- from both high school and middle school -- working outside their season on stroke improvement.  And a high school student-lead running club had 15 students from grade 5 to 12 out for a long run followed by an exhausting game of capture the flag.  Meanwhile there were 5 parents walking and jogging on the track, and another handful of staff, students and parents in the fitness room. 

Of course, after school on any other day of the week things are abuzz too.  Practices for tennis, soccer badminton and basketball.  ASAs ranging form the arts to academics, athletics to yoga.  Clubs planning service to the local community or digging into student interests.  Band rehearsals...  Open art studio... lots of pursuit of passions. 

This week we kicked off the second season of ASAs.  We have continued to revise how we do registrations in an effort to simplify things for parents while not over-complicating things for staff.  We have a few more things to adjust and after we do I will host a parent coffee to share information about our thinking and process.

Tomorrow there are friendly matches for ASIAC table tennis, badminton and SAISA boys soccer. 

CHEMUN, ASA Season 2, and SAISA Season 2

This Friday, Saturday and Sunday over 300 visiting students will join over 100 AISC HS and MS students for CHEMUN, the Chennai Model United Nations event hosted by AISC annually. The theme is Stagnation and Innovation. This is the 12th MUN conference we've hosted and participating schools come from Chennai, elsewhere in India, and internationally!

One very special characteristic of our MUN conference is that it is largely organized and run by student leaders.

More information about CHEMUN is available on the CHEMUN website.

ASA Season 2 begins on Monday, November 12th.  Emails were sent last week to those registered.  If you want to join an ASA or need to make a change to a registration please email vsripriya@aischennai.org.

SAISA Season 2 sports have begun.  The practice schedule for each is below.
Boys Soccer - M, Tu, Th, F 3:45-5:45 PM
Tennis - M, Tu 3:45-5:45 PM, Th, F 6:30-8 AM
Girls Basketball - M 3:45-5:45 PM, Tu, Th 6:30-8 AM, F 3:45-5:45 PM
Badminton - Tu, W, Th 3:45-5:45 PM