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3 Days Until the Award Ceremony: Reflection of the Day
"Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of activity of learners." ~ John Holt Today we would like to share...
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4 Days Until the Award Ceremony: Reflection of the Day
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together" ~ Woodrow Wilson Here is the reflection from one of the top teams:...
5 Days Until the Award Ceremony: Reflection of the Day
We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience ~ John Dewey So... what did we learn? Here is the reflection...
Public Voting is Now Open for the People’s Choice Award
The Human Migration: In the Pursuit of Happiness Online Forum has wrapped up. The students had gone through an internal peer review...
It Is What We Do With What We Know That Matters. Today's Team Spotlight: Team Keen Kiwis
The final piece of the puzzle before the students submit their final proposals for the competition is a heart-felt, down-to-earth...
How to See Our Blind Spots? Today's Team Spotlight: Team Viazi Elites
After each team agrees on the problem they want to solve, it is time for the Brainstorming Breakout Sessions. These are super helpful...
What is the Problem We Are Trying to Solve? Today's Team Spotlight: Team Zest Manifest
Albert Einstein said that if he had an hour to solve a problem, he would spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes...
The Beginning of Wisdom. Today's Team Spotlight: Team Triumphant Tribe
Each Forum starts with a Landscape SWOT analysis. Students introduce their own country's situation and learn about the situation in...
How Do We Know What We Know? Today's Team Spotlight: Team Alhayaa
Like it or not, we all live in bubbles. The newsfeeds on our devices, the text books we are tested on, the traditions passed on by our...
The Language of Global Cooperation is Not (Just) ELL. Today's Team Spotlight: Glück Squad
When a team needs to function well across the globe, it needs to establish a common language. English is the operational language that...
The Starting Point of All Understanding... Today's Team Spotlight: Cactus Voyager
After we put students from different corners of the world on the same team, we then assign them with yet another country to represent. ...
Embracing Diverse Views! Today's Team Spotlight: the Axo-lots
When a team is assembled, we take into consider each person's time zone, age, English proficiency and, most importantly, cultural...
Count Down to the Award Ceremony! Today's Team Spotlight: Pacific Spartans
It has been an amazing month of research, reflections and brainstorming sessions across the globe on Human Migration issues! Each team...
Think Big
It is hard not to feel stressed out lately. From wars to the pandemic to natural disasters, how can we hope for a better tomorrow? At a...
International Internship Teams Announced
Please join us in congratulating these schools and students who are about to kick start their life-changing careers! In the coming school...
A Warm Welcome to Our Latest Panelist - Professor Schlittler from USP in Brazil
We are honored to be able to work with thought leaders from around the world. They challenge our Forum participants to create solutions...
From Challenges to Ideas; From Ideas to Reality
One of the most satisfying aspect of our work is that we are learning from real life changemakers who are ACTUALLY working on solutions...
What Remote Learning and Working Really Means
As I continue the learning journey with teens around the world to investigate the pros and cons of human migration which is the topic of...
What Does Happiness Mean to You?
We finished with our warm-up exercise, and have kicked off the Human Migration Forum successfully! Here is the reflection from Arjun...
18 Under 18 (part 1)
It is not a surprise that all Buddies Without Borders students are thoughtful scholars and action-oriented doers. But stepping out of...
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