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Knowledge Masters Open Competition (KMO) - Spring Contest
tudents from the US and several cou ntries around the world competed on March 20th in the 37t h Fifth Grade Knowledge Master Open academic competition . The Fifth Grade SAS team, consisting of some students from the January contest as well as fifth graders new to the competition , spent three weeks preparing for the contest which consisted of 100 challenging questions from all curriculum areas. The March competi tion team scored 97/100 correct with a score of 668 which placed the school 58th out of 330 schools. Contest results and example questio ns are available on the website www.greatauk.com. Comments from two members of the team follow:
The SPRING KMO team: David Park, Timothy Swingle, Alex Gentry, Annie Tsay, Winston Yoo, Oliver Jung, Sarah Anderson, Dominic Jay Villamin, Jack Lin, Bianca Insigne, Isabel Perucho, Susan You, Aditya Cavale, Isabelle Chan, Natalya Varkey, Sylvia Levy, Michael Dong, Susan Shaw, coach, Jennifer Koltutsky, coach (not pictured).
Sylvia Levy – 5Yungclas Knowledge Masters is a contest of kno wledge. With our two coaches, Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Koltutsky, we hav e learned how to act in a group, cooperate with each other and be con fident to argue or add our thoughts to the discussion. In KMO we get a series of questions and each question has five multiple cho ice answers. In one minute we have to question and decide on an answer. If discuss the we get it right we get bonus points dep ending on how long it takes us. We captains, timers and keyboards from also choose the members of the team. Susan You – 5Morrisroe Wow! 3 weeks of hard work accomp lished a great thing – KMO is now fini shed! I feel very lucky to have been a great, hard-working K.M.O. team. Bein part of this g part of this team is important because you always need to cooperate with oth without this “key word” we probab ers, ly wouldn’t have scored as many poin ts as we did. Solving problems one is hard work, but no matter what our after another K.M.O team never lost hope. It was a great experience to face this hard task always fun to try out on new things. but it is The first time I saw the sign up shee t, I thought it would be dull but afte r trying it out it turned out to be grea become a part of the KMO team you t. If you do represent our school, S.A.S. Also rem ember to have significant team work before you enter the world of Knowle experience dge Masters!
International Middle School Honor Choir at SAS By Pat Brown, MS Choir Director
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s from Thursday, April 26 through Saturday or the first time ever, SAS will be hosting this prestigious event here on campu at each school to select the best voices for this evening’s concert at 6:30 p.m. in the Drama Theater. Auditions are held desh, IS Beijing, IS Manila, Jakarta IS, SAS choir. Schools attending include ACS Egham, England, AIS Dhaka, Bangla ore American School. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, SAS District, Saudi Arabia, and of course Singap of the The guest conductor is Jo Anne Van der Vaat from the American School and everybody in the community is invited to drop in Hague. Rehearsals will run throughout each day in the Drama Theater tations from the Ring of Fire” featuring songs from and watch this exciting process. The hour-long final concert themed “Incan 6:30 p.m. in the Drama Theater. Admission is free, but the region plus standard choral repertoire will be on Saturday evening at are gratefully accepted. donations to AMIS, The Association for Music in International Schools, SAS NewsFlash – April 2007
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