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Campus News
Fun Day
Graduating students – and teachers – took part in
Fun Day (in April) creating some last wonderful
memories for graduating seniors.
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Joy Jamal Eddine
, secondary student,
was selected to be the Global Youth Summit
Facilitator for Special Olympics in the next
Winter Games taking places in Idaho, USA,
in February 2009.
♠
Carmen Saadeh
, in 5ème, won the first
prize at the AUB Science and Math Fair
held in May! Five out of seven IC projects
won prizes at the Fair. One as the first prize
for the category Technology and Invention
and the rest distributed between second and
third prizes!
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Four secondary students,
Nour Awad,
Hana Zoghbi, Hind Kraytem
and
Rayane
Zahreddine
, who participated in a world
wide French Language on line competition
ranked first in the Middle East and 21st in
the world!
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Tracy Bou Zakhem
, 4ème in AA, ranked
first in “Le Plumier d’Or” competition
(French language competition among
schools in France and French speaking in-
stitutions abroad). The other finalist for the
competition was also an IC student from
AA: Marguerita Nasrallah in 4ème. IC is the
only Lebanese school where students came
out among the 10 first finalists.
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Sara Nassar
, 3ème at AA, won the first
prize (trip to Paris) in the French Poetry
Contest.
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The drawings of two students,
Rabih Ara-
soghli
(middle school) and
Grace Cheaib
(elementary) were selected for the UNESCO
calendar commemorating their 60 years.
♠
Haitham Haidar
, secondary student, was
selected after a rigorous audition and per-
formed with AMIS (Association of Music in
International Schools) International Honor
Band and Choir Festival held in London.
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Three IC art secondary students,
Adrian
Muller, Jenna Balute,
and
Maria Doughan
are the winners of the Qatar International
Contest 1st. The contestants were asked to
draw their own understanding of success.
The winners were invited to Hotel Gefinor
Rotana for the distribution of cash prizes
and to launch the second round of the com-
petition where the winner will be entitled to
a 4- full year scholarship in Virginia Com-
monwealth University Qatar.
♠
Lydia Sabra
, music teacher and conduc-
tor of the IC Boys Choir has been selected
to conduct the AMIS Middle School Honor
Boys Choir festival (85 to 90 boys from in-
ternational schools) in October of 2009 in
Prague. This the first time a conductor from
the Middle East has been chosen.
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Rayane Zbib
, in the secondary school,
won the most valuable player trophy in the
Basketball Tournaments (among six inter-
national schools) held in Amman.
♠
Mahmud Shihab
, the Head of IT, received
an award for IC in the 4th Pan Arab Web
Awards ceremony that took place at Burj al
Arab Hotel, Dubai, UAE. The Pan Arab Web
Award Academy honors individuals and
teams who have developed distinguished
websites in the Arab world. Over 500 sites
websites participated in the Awards compe-
tition and IC was the only school to receive
an award.
Mabrouk!