NEW! FOBISIA Events 2021-22

Sustainability: SDG's Pop-Up Book Challenge

1 September - 12 November 2021 Hosted by Prince of Wales International Island School, Penang

This new conline ompetition, launching in September, will invite students from years 5 to 9 to design and make a short pop up book to promote awareness of one or more of the UN sustainability goals or SDGs. The book will need some short narrative and should aim to encourage others to care for and protect the planet and take sustainable actions in everyday life, such as recycling. Students will be able to make their prototype book from cardboard, paper or any other sensible materials. They will be able to use origami, simple mechanisms or utilize printing processes. The hosts will be hoping to see student’s artistic talents, but with an option to include computer aided design or computer graphic skills as well as storytelling.

Race4Good Journalism Competition

30 September - 25 November 2021 Jointly hosted by International Teacher Magazine & Race4Good

The FOBISIA 2020 Race4Good was one of the most recent competitions held in the Race4Good format. A variety of races have been held in the last ten years, all of which have made a difference to competitors and to village communities around the world. The competition has generated so many stories of success, bravery, resourcefulness and sheer stubborn determination. These stories have been talked about, but not necessarily written down. We would now like to change that, and capture some of the stories to be told while developing the journalistic skills of young people.

This competition, launching in September 2021, will help budding secondary aged writers at FOBISIA schools to learn more about investigative journalism; sources; research; writing and producing stories that stand up to scrutiny. The winners' articles will be published in International Teacher Magazine and in THE FOBISIAN.

FOBISIA Virtual Orchestra

September 2021 - June 2022 Hosted by The FOBISIA Music Committee

After the success of FOBISIA Voices, we are keen to make sure that our young instrumentalists are not left out. The committee is busy finding a suitable piece for orchestra that can be arranged and sent out to schools who are interested in taking part. The aim is to create a virtual rendition of the piece involving as many students as we can. This is an exciting challenge for all and will again cement the wishes of FOBISIA that Music is for all, no matter where you might be or what is happening around you.

Battle of the Bands

4 October - 26 November 2021 Hosted by The FOBISIA Music Committee

Using a dedicated website as our platform, the FOBISIA Music Committee intends to offer a chance for schools from across our FOBISIA Community to take part in an online version of Battle of the Bands. Although exact details are still being thrashed out, we will look to offer feedback to all entrants with a couple of categories to help schools/countries who are facing different regulations. An overall winner will then be crowned FOBISIA Band of the Year!

Virtual Computer Game Creation Festival

10 January - 9 March 2022 Hosted by The British International School Ho Chi Minh City

In January 2022, BISHM will be taking the regular coding competition and launching it to new heights! This multidisciplinary challenge will give students in years 6-8 an insight into what makes a great video game: you need code to tell the story and allow the player to complete a task or control a character; the visual aspects of the game are part of what makes a player want to keep on playing; the sound effects and music also add to the feel of the game; it takes clever marketing, packaging and advertising to promote a game. A fun masterclass series covering all the necessary game components will culminate in an exciting one day challenge where teams will be given a theme and will work against the clock to apply all their new skills to create and present all the different elements of their game!

Foundation Race4Good

9 May - 27 May 2022 Hosted by Race4Good

Following on from the success of the Senior Race4Good, we are excited to introduce the opportunity of learning basic sustainable service concepts through leadership to a younger school audience. Designed to help create global citizens who are the leaders of tomorrow, this Foundation Race4Good will be aimed at students in KS3. The whole event takes place virtually and could be worked into a school curriculum with a whole year group participating to work as a team to uplift a family in a remote / challenging environment. Students are given challenges and a budget and they will need to immerse themselves into the community they are trying to help before presenting solutions to the problem. The strength of Race4Good is that chosen solutions are implemented within a short time period and the students will have the opportunity to view evidence of this taking place. Every participating team will leave a legacy on the community they are working to uplift.