03 April 2012
Students went to their assigned rooms from yesterday to continue working in their sustainability teams. An icebreaker game called “Bwap” started the day’s meeting. For this ice breaker game, students stood in a circle and pointed at someone with their hands together saying “Bwap”. Then a person from both the right side and the left [...]
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03 April 2012
Daniel Jardim – Our Lunch Chef Daniel Jardim is from a family of cooks, and began experimenting in the kitchen at a young age. Having lived in the UK for 11 years, where he had his own practise in Nutritional and Massage Therapy, he returned to South Africa and ran the kitchen at the Buddhist [...]
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25 March 2012
Buhle Dlamini definitely delivered the most exciting keynote speech. His easy going nature and funny stories kept the students well entertained as he told us about how we could change the world. Mr Dlamini is the founder of Young and Able, a training and development corporation which provides leadership training and mentorship for young people. [...]
25 March 2012
After registration all the students went to their assigned sustainability teams to be part of their first program taking place in GISS 2012.In this year’s GISS, we have assigned students to eight sustainability teams, which are Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Pedi, Ndebele, Swati and Venda. The team names come from the different languages spoken in [...]
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25 March 2012
The second keynote speech for the day was given by Ms Ella Bella. Ella Bella is the Youth Ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program as well as having co-founded Generation Earth, an organization that focuses on empowering the youth of South Africa to make a change to help the environment. She spoke about how each [...]
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24 March 2012
The keynote speeches always carry a lot of power at GISS conferences and today, Marc Kielburger definitely did not disappoint. He spoke to the students about how it is possible to change the world, and how he started his organization, Free The Children. One of the things we learned was that this generation is [...]
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24 March 2012
GISS 2012 is a milestone for the American International School of Johannesburg, for the first time our school is hosting over 200 students from schools all around the world as we come together to discuss current global issues . Maxime Seguin (Gr 11) the Master of Ceremonies kicked off the conference by welcoming everyone to [...]
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22 March 2012
The International School of Kigali arrived in South Africa on Wednesday for 2 days of touring before the conference begins. Enjoy your time in beautiful South Africa!
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22 March 2012
GISS 2012 begins tomorrow! Please check the links for the latest schedule changes and updates.
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