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Last night the BBIS Drama Club performed "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder and Rem Johannsen was directing the show. It was absolutely wonderful in all respects: directing, lighting and mature performances. Thanks to all contributors!

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Congratulations to our wonderful students! We are extremely proud of our primary school team in this year's ECIS International Maths Quest in Geneva. With their solid performance and true team spirit our representatives fantastically presented BBIS and secured the 5th best ranking team and the 12th best individual score (out of 112 participants) on this highly competitive, international competition! This has been our best record - so far!

For the last 8 years, BIMP has been bringing together students from international schools in- and outside Berlin to make music together. This year BBIS played host to 12 schools and over 250 young musicians, including participants from England, Hungary and Slovakia

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'Slankets', a student charity group at BBIS, have something they would like to share.

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Students creating the "Living Art Musem" as part of our Language Week

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Ready for the BBIS Spring Formal brought to you by your StuCo

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Outdoor education at BBIS - good luck to our our bronze and silver Duke of E teams for their expeditions this weekend!

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Earth Day last saturday: Happy Green Day today!

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Great Latin Jazz and Salsa concert for grade 6 and 9 as part of Language Week today

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Language week is in full swing with French, Spanish and Chinese food prepared by students and Salsa workshops

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We are always pleased to hear back from former BBIS students. Recently, we met up with Alexander Koenig, who now lives and works in the Boston Area. Interestingly, he is working in the field of Ed-Tech. Alex what have you been up to after leaving BBIS? After leaving BBIS we went to Italy where I finished 12th grade. By the time I was already interested in data. I am a huge sports fan and my dream was to get into data analysis for sports clubs and performances. I enrolled in Social Studies at Harvard and during my course work I found it very interesting to see how people act and think, and why. By the way, it could have easily been a subject taught in the Middle Years Programme. It reminded me a lot of BBIS. What happened after university? My thesis was about the Columbine School shooting. I spent the summer in Colorado interviewing officials about the aftermath, which, kind off, set a precedent for other schools and how we handle school shootings. I was intrigued to learn how schools are interacting with communities and the environment around them. I grew up in international schools where kids don’t necessarily live in the same neighbourhood. Here it is different, and to find out what the system in US community schools is like, I signed up for ‘Scholarship America’. I taught in Boston, shadowed teachers and helped out where it was needed. I started to think how life could be made easier for teachers using data and analytical tools. You are now working in the field of Ed-Tech; can you tell us how you got into it? After the Scholarship America, I joined the start-up ‘Gradeable’ which provides apps that correct students’ tests automatically. The aim was to use technology to make life easier for teachers. After that experience, I decided to work directly with schools and am now an in-house data manager and analyst at Brooke Charter Schools in the Boston area. Trusting in numbers can be very beneficial. There is a lot that goes on in schools that is worth analyzing; students’ performances, reports, grading, address management and so on. Numbers and data can be used to formulate best practice policies. Ed Tech is a pretty new field for education - that’s what’s makes it so exciting.

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