CAS stands for creativity, activity, service. CAS is a collection of pesonally meaningful yet challenging experiences reasonably balanced between creativity, (physical) activity, and service. All IB students must successfully complete the CAS program to recieve their IB Diploma which includes documented evidence of participating in and achieving the 7 CAS Learning Outcomes in a variety of experiences and at least one long-term CAS project starting as early as the first day of junior year and continues throughout senior year (minimum of 18 months of frequent and active engagement)

The component's three strands, often interwoven with particular activities, are characterized as follows:

• Creativity - exploring and extending ideas leading to an original or interpretive product or performance

• Activity - physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle

• Service - collaborative and reciprocal engagement with the community in response to an authentic need



CAS should involve:

• Real, purposeful activities, which meet one or more of the learning outcomes.

• Personal challenge --- tasks must extend the student and be achievable in scope.

• Students using the CAS stages (investigation, preparation, action, reflection, and demonstration) to guide CAS experiences and projects.

• Thoughtful consideration, such as planning, reviewing progress, reporting (done on ManageBac).

• Evidence and reflection on outcomes and personal learning.

CAS encourages students to be involved in activities as individuals and as part of a team that take place in local, national and international contexts. Creativity, activity, service enables students to enhance their personal and interpersonal development as well as their social and civic development, through experiential learning, lending an important counterbalance to the academic pressures of the rest of the IB Diploma Programme. It should be both challenging and enjoyable - a personal journey of self-discovery that recognizes each student's individual starting point.

By the end of their CAS experience as a whole, students must show evidence that they have participated in activities which have met each of the following outcomes:

1. Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth

2. Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process

3. Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience

4. Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences

5. Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively

6. Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance

7. Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions

All outcomes must be well documented with reflection and/or artifact evidence for a student to complete the CAS requirement. Some may be demonstrated many times, in a variety of activities, but completion requires only that there is some evidence for every outcome.