Chadwick International was recently authorized as an IB World School for the Primary Years Program.

CI was recognized for its potential with thorough action plans that defined the majority of our work for the next few years. CI plans to continue to focus on more clear articulation of its assessment practices to include portfolios for all students and implementation of assessment policy along with strengthening written curriculum and development of more student-led action in class.

CI received 15 commendations as a symbol of superiority beyond the expectations of the IB. Some of those included the integration of CI’s technology program, use of facilities and scheduling for optimal student learning, focus on professional development and many others.

This authorization is a perfect representation of each day in the Chadwick International Village and is a celebration of the hard work by students, teachers and parents.

Here’s to CI!

From April 29th-May 3rd, the Village School participated in a Readathon. Students took up the challenge to ask sponsors to pay them for each minute or page that they read during the week.

Before the Readathon began, Grade 4A (Ms. Tonya Low’s class) and Ms. Jager (Village Librarian) introduced the Readathon to students through a video and posters.

The purpose of the Readathon was to encourage students to read but also to raise money for an organization called Room to Read. This NGO was started by John Wood in 1999. While on a trek in Nepal, he discovered a school that had a library with no books. He sent them enough donated books to fill their library and then quit his job as an executive at Microsoft because he wanted to provide all children with books. Today this organization has funded over 10,000 libraries in Asia and Africa as well as scholarships for girls and publication of books.

Our students, with great support from their parents and other sponsors, raised just over 11,000,000W in the Readathon. This money will be used to provide a library in Nepal and one in Vietnam. Teams will begin putting the libraries together this fall and they will be ready for students when the school year begins in September of 2014.

"Readathon" project video created by our 4th grade students

Appreciation message from John Wood, Founder and Board Co-Chair of Room to Read

Our talented 9th grade arts team will be working on painting a mural in Songdo Central Park from April 22nd to 26th with a renowned mural artist from the United States.

There will be a dedication ceremony on April 29th to unveil their week-long mural painting project,

Please come and join us at Central Park to enjoy the works of our talented Chadwick students!  

Date : April 29th, 2013 (Monday)

Time : 17:00~17:30

Venue: Songdo Central Park External Wall (located right in front of stairway of Prugio Apartment)

Mr. Tudor will appear in the CI Main Theater, between 2.30-3.30pm, reading from his new book about the success of modern Korea, called Korea: The Impossible Country.  Mr. Tudor will also take questions from the audience about his work as a journalist covering Korea for the world media.  The event will be hosted by CI’s Upper School Grade 9 students, and will be in both English and translated into Korean.  

The event on April 26 is free and open to parents, as well as all students, faculty and staff.  Copies of Mr. Tudor’s book will be available for sale and signing after the event, thanks to our partners, What the Book.  

Mr. Tudor is a graduate of Oxford University in the UK, and is a former financial analyst with an MBA from Manchester University.  He has lived in Korea for five years, and has been visiting Korea since 2002, when he first came here for the soccer world cup.  

Mr. Tudor’s appearance at Chadwick is co-sponsored by SUNY Korea.  Ms. Jean Oh, Dean of Student Affairs at SUNY Korea, has joined with Mr. Kieran Ridge, of CI Upper School English, to create a partnership that presents special guests and events in Songdo.    

Please join us on April 26 to celebrate Chadwick International’s new partnership with SUNY Korea by attending SEASON #1 with Mr. Daniel Tudor of The Economist.

Chadwick International was thrilled to host author and photographer, Nic Bishop, on Wednesday, March 13th. Nic Bishop has written and been the photographer for numerous non-fiction books for children. His specialty is getting detailed up-close photos of animals. As he says on his website, “What I love to see is fine textural details, like the micro hairs on a spider’s legs or the faint sheen on a frog’s skin, which only show up with really good light.” He travels the world spending hours out in the field waiting for the exact moment to capture his subjects. Mr. Bishop's presentation was filled with funny antidotes of waiting for a snake to swallow an egg, a tarantula to shed its skin or of little jungle creatures coming out at night and playing with his camera equipment. Sometimes it would take him months to capture just one moment on film. Because of his incredible patience he creates books with stunningly vivid photography and interesting observations. Mr. Bishop kept the students all mesmerized with his storytelling and we had a long line of students eager to ask Mr. Bishop questions about his life.

Throughout the unit, one of the main goals was to push the students to become more alert and literate about the media and to be cautious of what they read and see every day on the internet. Towards the end of the presentation, Mr. Kim was inundated with well thought questions from our enthusiastic and excited students.

- Chadwick International team won the Grand Prize
- CI team qualified for the VEX World Championship scheduled to be held on April 17th at Disneyland, U.S. 

 
Photo 1: Participants of VEX Robotics Korea Championship are maneuvering 'Sack' to the goal post located in the center.

Co-hosted by Chosun Education and JH Science Academy to discover students talented in science through robot education, 2012-2013 VEX Robotics Championship (VEX) Korea Tournament was held on 9th at the auditorium of Hansung Science High School.
Began in 2007, VEX has been solidified as the largest robot competition for teenagers in the world and had 7,100 teams from 23 countries participating last year. 18 middle and high school teams took part in the first Korea Tournament, including 'MinJokers' from Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, ‘6724 #1•2’ from Chadwick International, and 'Hansung' from Hansung Science High School. Teams went through preliminary round, main round, and final round, competing with each other for five hours for the ticket to World Championship to be held in Disneyland Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, California) on April 17th.

 
Photo 2: Participants of 2012-2013 VEX Robotics Korea Championship

The theme of this year's competition is ‘Sack Attack’. Each team has sacks at their side and the team that puts its sack in the goalpost placed at the center of the square-shaped field wins the game. All teams played three games at the preliminary round held in the morning and four teams that have won the most and gained the most points advanced to the main round. At the main round held in the afternoon the 4 advanced teams chose one of the lost teams as collaboration team, advancing 2 teams. These teams chose its partner team among those who did not advance to the next round. Members of both teams played as the same team, and these united teams went though the main round to be the winner.

 
Photo 3: Team '6724#1' and '6724#2' from Chadwick International earned the Grand Prize and the Best Teamwork Award, respectively.

The winner of the honorable Grand Prize and a ticket to the World Championship was team ‘6724 #1’. Composed of three 9th grade students from Chadwick International (Jinseong Kim, Seung Jin Yang, and Cole Hickenbottom), this team has distinguished itself from the first game in the preliminary round. ‘Iron Ore’(Jihyuk Ko, Minki Kwak, Honggyu Shin, and Soohyun Cho), a team of 7th grade students from Daedeok Middle School in Daejeon, earned Gold Award. Yoonsik Kim from Chungbuk Mechatronics High School (10th grade) and Cheongju Seowon Middle School students Seongwoo Hwang (9th grade), Woochul Lee, and Injun Lee (8th grade) formed a team 'Black Bear' and earned Silver Award. Team 'MinJokers,' seniors from Korean Minjok Leadership Academy (Seongwoo Bae, Seungin Ryu, Seongjae Hwang, Inchan Hwang), has won Bronze Award. Chadwick International's another 9th graders’ team ‘6724 #2’ (Kyungryul Park, Suwon Chai, Seunghui Hur) that entered as a collaborating team and ‘Robot of Legend 2’ (Senior Joonho Kim and Taeho Kim, Junior Jinho Kim and Sunghun Chang) from Chungnam Mechanical Technical High School has respectively received Best Teamwork Award and Good Teamwork Award. Moreover, team ‘Robot of Legend 2’ and 'Robot Style' (alliance of 10th graders from Gaepo High School, Youngdong High School, and Whimoon High School students) won Design Award regardless of their ranking in the tournament. Director of JH Science Academy Jongchun Woo said, "Although it was the first tournament held in Korea, I saw some outstanding ideas in building robots and enjoyed observing well-played games throughout the event." He added, "It was somewhat unfortunate for a few teams being disadvantaged due to the lack of understanding on VEX global rule. The event, however, presented awesome works from relatively young students, showing the chance for domestic tournaments to be more active and the possibility for good records in the world championship."

조선일보, 2013년 3월 11일
VEX 로보틱스 세계대회 한국 대표선발전 열려

-채드윅국제학교팀 영예의 대상 수상
-4월 17일 미국 디즈니랜드서 열리는 국제대회 출전권 획득

로봇 교육을 통한 과학영재 발굴을 목표로 조선일보 교육법인 조선에듀케이션과 정혜과학아카데미가 공동 주최하는 ‘2012-2013 VEX 로보틱스 세계대회’(이하 VEX) 대한민국 대표선발전이 9일 한성과학고등학교(서울 서대문구) 대강당에서 개최됐다.

2007년 시작된 VEX는 지난해 23개국에서 7100여개 팀이 참가할 정도로 명실상부한 세계 최대 청소년 로봇 경진대회로 자리 잡았다. 올해 처음 치러지는 한국 대표 선발전에는 민족사관고등학교 ‘MinJokers’ 채드윅국제학교 ‘6724 #1·2’ 한성과학고 ‘Hansung’를 비롯해 중·고교 18개 팀이 참가해 열띤 경쟁을 펼쳤다. 오는 4월 17일부터 나흘간 미국 디즈니랜드 애너하임컨벤션센터(캘리포니아주 애너하임시)에서 개최되는 세계대회 출전권을 두고 펼쳐진 이번 대회는 예선전, 본선전, 결승전으로 약 5시간에 걸쳐 진행됐다.

올해 대회 주제는 ‘색어택(Sack Attack)’. 정사각형 모양 필드에서 자기 진영에 놓인 자루(sack)를 필드 중앙 골대에 넣으면 이기는 방식이다. 오전에 치러진 예선전은 팀별로 각각 3차례 경기를 치른 뒤 다승 및 다득점으로 4팀을 선발하는 방식으로 진행됐다. 오후에 열린 본선에서는 상위 4개 팀이 예선전에서 탈락한 팀 가운데 한 팀을 협력팀으로 선택해 함께 경기를 치러 2개 팀을 선발하고 결선에서 최종 한 팀을 선발했다.

영예의 대상과 세계 대회 출전권은 예선 1라운드에서부터 두각을 나타낸 채드윅국제학교 1학년 김진성, 양승진, 콜 히켄바텀군으로 구성된 ‘6724 #1’에게 돌아갔다. 금상은 대전 대덕중학교 1학년으로 구성된 ‘Iron Ore’(고지혁, 곽민기, 신홍규, 조수현)가 은상은 충북전산기계고 1학년 김윤식군과 청주 서원중 황성우(3년), 이우철, 이인준(이상 2년)으로 구성된 연합팀 ‘Black Bear’, 동상은 민족사관고등학교 3학년으로 구성된 ‘MinJokers’(배성우, 유승인, 황성재, 황인찬)가 차지했다. 협력팀으로 결승에 진출한 채드윅국제학교 ‘6724 #2’(박경률, 채수원, 허승휘·이상 1년)과 충남기계공업고 ‘Robot of Legend 2’(김준호·김태호 이상 3년, 김진호·장성훈 이상 2년)에게는 각각 최우수 협력상과 우수 협력상이 수여됐다. 또 뛰어난 디자인으로 주목받은 ‘Robot of Legend 2’와 개포고, 영동고, 휘문고 1학년으로 구성된 연합팀 ‘Robot Style’에게는 순위와 별도로 디자인상이 주어졌다. 우종천 정혜과학아카데미 이사장은 "국내에서 치러진 첫 대회인데도 로봇 제작 아이디어는 물론 경기 운영 면에서도 수준 높은 경기가 펼쳐졌다"며 "VEX 국제 규정에 대한 이해가 부족해 불이익을 당한 팀이 있어 아쉬움이 남지만, 상대적으로 어린 학생들의 선전이 두드러져 향후 국내 대회 활성화는 물론 세계 대회에서의 성과도 기대된다"고 말했다.

조찬호 기자

Korea Herald, February 1, 2013

Chadwick nurtures global talent

For Chadwick International to be considered, the school needed to meet the league's criteria which could not have been done without the support of the Chadwick community including faculty, administration, students and parents. This is an important milestone for CI, and we are very excited to be affiliated with this group of schools.