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By: Vera Lin (Grade 8) On Monday, the 19th of January, the community came together to celebrate all the 8th-grade students' hard work these past months as they prepared for the annual Community Project Expo. As part of the MYP curriculum, this project allows students to extend the knowledge they have gained across all 8 classes and to identify the community's needs/issues they truly care about. Over the past few months, when students were introduced to this project, they st

By Noah Lindsay (Grade 12) & Jay Cheung (Grade 11) Opening Ceremony: “If we do not want to die together in war, we have to live together in peace,” quotes head of Kaohsiung American School, Jim Laney, during his speech in the opening ceremony of the first ever Kaohsiung Model United Nations conference. The room fills with tension and excitement as hundreds of debaters from Taipei, Hsinchu, Tainan, and Kaohsiung await to engage in debate that is not only riveting, but also un

by Oscar Lin (Grade 12) Amidst the scramble to study for exams, balancing school with life, while building a functioning and intricate machine, the members of the KAS robotics team, Laputa (Team ID: 19908), devoted countless hours every week for several months in preparation for the annual FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), which happened last week. This year, the theme was DECODE, where the robots are to not only score balls in their respective goals, but also sort the colors in t