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Speaker Series The Speaker Series Program brings fascinating people with captivating stories into our school to inspire, enlighten and transform learning for our students. Speakers are invited to AISG from all over the world, and through sharing their experiences, they will touch the minds and hearts of the members of the AISG Community. With the help of the PTA, AISG was able to arrange a few speakers before the campus closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their interaction with the students is guaranteed to have a lasting impact.
Henry Evans - Climate Change Scientist September 2019 Henry is a British scientist who set up a science education organization in 2012 called Magnificent Ocean. During his visit at AISG, Henry gave an engaging presentation about environmental issues and his expedition to Antarctica, providing details, photos, and other visuals that had the kids sitting on the edge of their seats. As climate change continues to threaten our planet, Henry’s work in schools becomes more and more relevant, not to mention, more necessary. He inspired AISG students to further their study about our planet’s crisis and what we can do to change it.
Luka Lesson – Slam Poet January 2020 In January 2020, Greek-Australian slam poet Luka Lesson spent a week with students on the AISG Science Park campus to help them find their unique voices through poetry. A spoken word expert and rapper, Lesson’s creative work is often inspired by heritage, social consciousness, and advocating for marginalized groups. With Lesson, our Middle School students identified a current world problem and developed an individual “social justice poem” that they shared with passion in workshop groups. In High School, students focused in different sessions on diaspora, cultural identity, and the role of myth in telling their own stories. As Lesson says in his poem of the same name, “May your pen grace the page/at the same pace as your brain/may your grey matter from now on no longer be grey.”
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Annual Report 2019-2020
