CAS hall of honors

A big thank you to our students for their meaningful CAS portfolios and social impact engagement both locally and globally! Selection refers to those CAS portfolios with a strong humanitarian and social impact footprint.

• Lucile Remy – For her incredible commitment to making the world a better place, leading the POW club, organizing events such as screenings and guest speaker lecture series for POW, raising awareness on environmental issues, helping organise Pink Day, playing cello in a professional orchestra, and planning an expedition to Alaska with Adventure Trek.

• Mathilde Thorens – For her creativity in musical and acting performances, playing instruments, attending many clubs, involvement in the Guinea and Cambodia trips and related fundraising events like the Guinea walk and the Henna stand for Cambodia, and commitment to the International Awards.

• Mathilde d’Afflitto - For her dedication to track and field, involvement in the LGB Express, commitment to the junior committee of the Red Cross, work with the Heart for India Foundation, and active participation in StuCo.

• Aliyah Noor - For her work with the Heart for India Foundation, involvement in the junior committee of the Red Cross, organising Pink Day at La Maison de Tara, running for the Escalade, and participating in StuCo.

• Rebecca Attias  – For tutoring Economics, involvement in the Junior Red Cross Committee’s bal, commitment to the LGB Express, leading the Pink Day club, work with Hope for Morocco, and her project with MyHopia.

• Sylvie Wainwright – For her creative writing (poetry), commitment to drama, leading the SAGA club, and involvement in creating a booklet on mental health for younger students.

• Elie Afflelou  - For his solid engagement and well-driven trip to India for the Heart for India Foundation, participation in clubs such as the Automobile Engineering Club and Business Club, and leading the Chess Club.

• Anna Boulet-Lips – For her photography exhibition "Helping Hands" (CAS project), participation in the Senegal humanitarian trip, tutoring French, and serving as LGB Express editor.

• Yujin Wang – For his passion for computer building, organizing the E-Sports League competition, math tutoring, and participation in the Art History Club and School Math Club.

• Xinyu Yang (April) – For her creativity in designing book covers for the library, progress in digital art, commitment to reading to children, and involvement in the International Awards.

• Sophie Casamonti – For her interest and commitment to fashion design and textiles, her fashion show project, involvement in the volleyball school team, and voluntary work with Year 2-4s ceramics and pottery class.

• Viola Annicchiarico – For her involvement in various creative and active experiences such as creative writing, First Aid course, skiing, playing tennis, service with Diwali, the Senegal trip and fundraising events, Lourdes pilgrimage, volunteering with Partage, organizing donations for Ukrainian refugees, and her Ecoart project.

A big thank you to our students for their meaningful CAS portfolios and social impact engagement both locally and globally! Selection refers to those CAS portfolios with a strong humanitarian and social impact footprint.

• Cecilia Zoe Dell'Osso  –  For her outstanding social and environmental impact in Geneva with the creation, development and promotion of GreenUp, a new social media app to encourage young people to protect the environment while having fun. She led a successful crowdfunding campaign and won the GRS price before starting collaborating with the university of Lausanne (EPFL) and supported by G'Innove (Geneva innovation department). GreenUp has also been selected as a finalist for the Geneva Canton Sustainability prize (Bourse Cantonal du Developpement Durable) www.greenup.website 

• Sabine Ebanks– For her outstanding social impact engagement in our community through her commitment with LGB Express as an Editor, her Global citizenship and ULP groups, Cultural Awareness week

• Chiara Turrettini – For her strong social impact involvement with an Indian school at Ektara through online tutoring lessons and in the community with her Econ tutoring as well as her engagement in various school club such as the LGB Express.

• Thomas Nobel -  For his engagement in his community using his incredible video editing skills and his attitude which reflects the school and the CAS programme values.

• Archibald de Fierlant Dormer – For his commitment with mountaineering and his attempt to climb Mont Blanc. His resilience and his fundraising and donation to the Fondation Saint-Luc made a strong social impact.

• Vanya Saksena – For her commitment and leading of the campus club WinSTEAM and for the social impact she made this year to help a school in Sierra Leone to sponsor the university education of a young girl interested in Computer Science. 

• Perla Lepage – For her commitment with various campus club Save the Children Club and for her outstanding social impact engagement in our community: LGB Express Editor and co-leading of Club Law 101.

• Alexia Franco Hibner – For her outstanding social impact engagement in our school community and her involvement in increasing awareness for various causes through events such as Pink Day team and Cystic Fibrosis Talent Show.

• Aimilia-Meropi Konialidis – For her social impact engagement with Emergenza Sorrisi which is a non-profit organisation that provides medical care to children suffering from facial malformations such as cleft palate and other diseases such as malnutrition.

• Amelia Melo - For her social impact engagement both on campus with her involvement in clubs such as the LGB express, the Debate Club and her role as co-leader of the Savethe Children Cub, and in the outside community with the Samedi du Partage.

• Maria Nonay Jordi - For her social impact engagement both in the Ecolint community with her involvement in Pink Day and the Sports Leadership Programme, and outside the campus with her Services: Junior red cross committee ball and Lecturas de relatos.

A big thank you to our students for their meaningful CAS portfolios and social impact engagement both locally and globally! Selection refers to those CAS portfolios with a strong humanitarian and social impact footprint.

• Martina Ravano - For her participation in numerous school clubs such as the Politics & History Club, founder of the Law 101 club, and her strong social impact involvement with B8 of Hope, a Brighter Tomorrow as well as the changemarker’s challenge and the together run.

• Thessabel Chang - For her involvement in various campus clubs such as SLN and the LGB Express, for founding the ESP Social Skill Society and the Medical Society Club and her social impact engagement with her CAS Project in collaboration with the Jerash Camp Jordan. 

• Montague Jacobs - For his participation in various campus clubs such as the Philosophy Club and the We for S/He Club, for his outstanding social impact engagement in our community and his involvement in StuCo and the Eco Committee, and his CAS project SolarShot, fundraising initiative to build solar farms on the roofs of our schools.

• Juliette Van Der Burg - For her commitment with the campus club Economics & Management Society and for her outstanding social impact engagement in our community: raising awareness and advocating for the India Project, her involvement and organisation of Pink Day, volunteering as a leader of the Geneva Red Cross Junior Committee and tutoring students in Year 10 and 11.

• Isabelle Lövblad - For her commitment with the campus clubs: the Medical Society Club and the Eco-Committee, her involvement with the LGB Express, for her social impact engagement with A Space Between, translating and recording short stories for blind people and volunteering at ASK (All Special Kids) Summer Camp and her CAS project and the impact on the environment: creating a waste-less classroom.

• Louise Falkengren - For her social impact engagement in school clubs such as the Economics & Management Society, SLN, and the LGB Express, in tutoring Year 11 students and with her involvement in promoting the India project.

• Kedina Aimée Hoeft - For her social impact engagement both on campus with her involvement in clubs such as the LGB express, the Medical Society Club, and the Eco-Committee, her engagement with the Mentor well-being project and tutoring Year 10 students in Maths and German, and in the outside community with a focus on the environment with her projects: Solar Panel project and selling ubuntu beads for a fundraising initiative for the Rainforest Trust Fund.

• Lili Faye Tamari - For her social impact engagement both in the Ecolint community with her involvement in the Economics & Management Society and the Ecoart curatorial team, and outside the campus with her Services: LF Gallery Beirut’s Eye Fundraising for Lebanon, Yes! Young Economic Summit, the Changemaker’s challenge and B8 of Hope.

• Margaux Francioli – For her outstanding social impact engagement in our community through her commitment with SLN, Expatria Lebanon Junior Committee, the Red Cross junior Committee as well as Civitas Maxima, her involvement with the Medical Society Club on campus, her participation in the Changemaker’s challenge, and tutoring of an ESP student.

• India Tamari - For her outstanding social impact engagement in our community through her participation in the campus clubs Economics & Management Society and SLN, founder of the Law 101 club, her involvement with Civitas Maxima, the Ecoart curatorial team, the Xpatria committee (fundraising for Lebanon), and her engagement with Red Cross junior Committee and the changemaker’s challenge.

• Thomas Hogge - For his commitment with the campus clubs such as the Engineering club and the Chess & Backgammon Club, for his participation in SLN and the LGB Express, and his social impact engagement in the Eco Committee and the Lac Léman beach clean ups.

• Max Lashmar – For his commitment with campus clubs such as the Solarshot Project Committee and the Sports Society Club, his engagement in Gold IA, and for tutoring Math to a Year 9 student.

A big thank you to our students for their meaningful CAS portfolios and social impact engagement both locally and globally!  Selection refers to those CAS portfolios with a strong humanitarian and social impact footprint.

• Alexandra PEREZ – For her engagement with the campus Anti-discrimination Initiative, LGB Fights CF club, volunteering with the Human Rights Watch and STUCO, founder of History & Politics Club in school, volunteering at "Youth Underground" preventing human trafficking through youth education, awareness-raising, and advocacy (Alexandra has posed for a billboard which has been featured on TPG vehicles across the canton).

• James BURGAT - His CAS portfolio is a model of experiential education outside the classroom throughout his active engagement in causes dear to him throughout our community such as Inclusivity Toolkit, Pride Day, SAGA club, the Independent Yearbook, Working - the school musical, Replicating the Belin wall.

• Nina DUSANIC – For her social impact engagement: Crocheting for Pro Natura, CF Marcheton, fundraising for the Red Pencil at the winter market (300 CHF through crocheting)

• Aliki FLOROU – Social impact engagement: WWF, volunteering for Middle Schoolers at the Designathon, Fake Fur for Sure, Madagascar trip, Takis animal shelter in Greece

• Qingyang ZHANG - For her outstanding social impact engagement in our community: prolific writer to the science and environmental sections of the LGB express, fundraising for Team Trees & CF marCHeton, leader of the Maxwell’s Deamon’s Physics Club and her successfully-led project on ink wastage on photocopier machines in school.

• Juliane DELISLE PYE – marCHeton, Eco Committee, LGB Express Editor, fundraising for the Red Pencil at the Winter Market & creation of a booklet, and her CAS project Energy Aid website for IB students

• Arwen LE BARS – Social impact engagement both outside the campus with her Services: Brevet National de Sauvetage et Secourisme, Premier Secours en equipe, volunteering with protection civile and within our community: Mentoring the India team, Teaching middle schoolers about pool safety & lifeguard job

• Cameron PAPPAS – For his social impact engagement both in the outside community: participation in the Young Female Activist Summit at the UN, but also within our community: Head Judge for Odyssey of the Mind Regional Tournament, Band Playing at talent show to raise funds & awareness for Rare Diseases. Outstanding CAS project fundraising 14’000 £ for the British Red Cross in support of the Beirut explosion 2019: Beirut Emergency Appeal

• Ela SIGIN – For her outstanding social impact engagement in our community, founder of the WinSTEAM (Women in STEM club) that, among different focus areas, wrote a research paper on “The Digital Inclusion of Women,” a focus area for the W20 summit commissioned by W20 Founding Chair, Gulden Turktan. Other examples of social impact engagement: Voyage au Madagascar, Croix Rouge Jeunesse, bringing groceries to people in quarantine during pandemics

• Samia Allegra JONSON - For her outstanding social impact engagement in our community, spokesperson for ULP and tutoring but also outside the Ecolint community: B8 of Hope and very dedicated to fundraising for Lebanon in both Unite for Lebanon organized by Tamari Foundation amounting to 99’000 CHF funds raised and in the project Dafa Campaign.

• Elina PENTINMAKI - For her collaboration on Extended Essay Guide serving the next IB generation as well as for their engagement with the Eco Committee and Pink Club.

• Reza MURFI - For his collaboration Extended Essay Guide as well as for his engagement in school life as LGB Express Sports Editor, tutoring secondary and middle schoolers.

A heartfelt thank you to our students for their meaningful CAS portfolio and continuous engagement towards creating social impact locally and globally!  Selection refers to those CAS portfolios with a strong humanitarian and social impact footprint.

• Carlota de Inza - for her Project co-lead with Victoria Dodd & Simoine Maylor – Fundraising for Education for All (fundraising 6K for education in Sierra Leone) 

• Ana Sofia REYNA – Pink Club & Pink Day and for implementing Post Pals Club in our school.

• Victoria Dodd – Education for All self-initiated CAS project co-lead with Carlota & Simoine and active participation in other social impact initiatives in our school like the Paddle for Cancer, Pink Club, MarCHeton.

• Anna-Sofia Takala – outstanding student and exemplary involvement in Service activities in our community (CF Night of Talent, CF Halloween event, Medical Society, Odyssey of the Mind coaching & judge, Tutoring etc) & outside (Echange linguistique EMS with Croix Rouge Jeunesse/ Eldery Home visits with Croix Rouge Jeunesse). Testimonial at different assemblies: On the importance of CAS & the service strand

• Annabelle Veith – good level of engagement in our community (Assisting Y1 Class, Eco-Committee communication on social media, CF Marcheton, We for She, WCA Club) & CAS trips (voyage en Guinée).

• Shirin Ferdows – exceptional engagement in our community (CF Marcheton, Tutoring, CF Halloween event, LGB express, Refugee Tutoring) and her highlight event Pink Club & Pink Day

• Lilitha Mafu – outstanding level of engagement in the community: leader of clubs We for She Club & WCA, CF Night of Talent, CF marCHeton, assistant primary school. His most representative project: video 21st of March 2020- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as part of We for She & WCA clubs under leadership of Jaspreet Oberai. Published on Womens March Geneva Facebook page as well in the newsletter.

• Finnur Ricart Andrason – outstanding CAS portfolio with 30 experiences well documented in terms of evidence & reflections ! Founder of Eco Committee (together with Domingo Mujica & George Hogge).

• Tina Travnik – very engaged with Service projects such as Art projects with Asylum Seeker Children, CF marCHeton and her most important projects: Environmental Awareness Day & CF Halloween Event leader.

• Laura Antunes Maciel Salem – Global Student Director of History Heard, volunteering with Parçeiros da Educação Rio de Janeiro, Refugee tutoring & volunteering, her self-initiated project: Interacting with Gaza schools.

• Lisa de Bruyn – Terre des Hommes – Assisting a workshop on children’s rights, Medical Society, Tutoring ESP students and her most important project: ESP learning resources website.

• Zina Samawi – editing videos for the Red Cross, Medical society club leader, Red Cross Junior Committee leader

• Sarah-Odelé-Gruau – outstanding engagement in the community with her project Partage foodbank collection on campus, Student Tutor, Assistant Coach, and 2 articles written for Ready for Red Cross Magazine: Ensemble pour le développement durable (publication: mars 2020) & Genève à travers la Croix Rouge (publication: octobre 2019)

• Ester Blum – president of the LGB fights CF club, India team mentor, Sola Stars club fighting for right to education for Afghan girls.

• Sera Gurzumar – Environmental Awareness Day, Eco Committee, CF marCHeton, CF Night of Talent, Medical Society, participated in Plastic Writing Contest National Geographic with The Cry of the Waves - Wattpad.  

• Maftei Mara Ioana – Art Workshop for Immigrant Children, CF Marcheton, Eco Committee, Weekly EMS visits with the Red Cross, Post Pals, and the most representative Medical Society Club leader

• Shiraz Rhimer – Gaza Skype calls club leader, Refugee tutoring, Bal de la Croix Rouge, Soirée caritive CPCI pour améliorer l’education refugiés au Liban, and her most representative project Humans of the Holy Land,

• Atieno Rose – strong social impact footprint, nominated by teachers. Activities include African Village Praise Project, We for She Club, Eco Committee, Netball Coaching, Student Mentoring, World Cultural Awareness Club leader.

IB Sports Science study revision website - Martin Dujn & Loïs Konan - Class of 2020

Project descriptor:  Website to help students with their sport science revision for quizzes, tests and exams. The website will include summaries of classwork, revision sheets for examinations and past papers for students. The goal is to help students that struggle and to help them achieve their potential. 

Extended Essay Tips - Reza Mufi & Elina Pentinmaki - Class of 2021

Project descriptor: Creating an extended essay help- booklet by interviewing year 13 students about their experiences in order to help students who are looking for help. Goal is to help anyone who needs it by creating this booklet and have it easily accessible for anyone. 

Pink Club & Pink Day  - Shirin Ferdows & Ana Sofia Reyna - Class of 2020. 

Project descriptor:  Help raise awareness for breast cancer and money, by hosting events such as yearly Pink days, 'Sponge the teacher', tombolas and more fun fundraisers. Also, to get breast cancer survivors to come to school and share their stories. The club has raised 2K and donated to ETH Zurich towards breast cancer research. Here the thank you call with ETH Zurich explaining how their donation has been used in medical ultrasound imaging to improve breast cancer diagnosis. Shirin's name is featured in the ETH Annual Report 2019 under Private Donors. Way to go Shirin!

Independent Music Progression - Yasmine Amouzegar 

Free to be music video - Eva Liza Ciss

Global Citizenship enrichment project - Co-authors from LGB, Sarah-Odelé-Gruau Molero, Finnur Ricart, Nastasia Verdes - Class of 2020

Project descriptor: As part of the enrichment programme that was put in place for Year 13 students after their IB exams were cancelled, a group of students worked with Professor Karen Taylor, our Director of Education, to carry out a research project on the Ecolint student experience and global citizenship. The results are really impressive!  

Toril's weekly email blast - Toril Palaniappan - Class of 2020

Project descriptor: Writing and send out an weekly e-mail blast detailing the happenings of the week in science, mathematics and other related topics. I do this for enjoyment, improvement of my writing, and to keep up (and keep other people up to date) on current events and developments in fields in which I am interested. 

Historical Website of Communist China & IB Philosophy study website - Xiang Yi(Ian) Wang - Class of 2020

Urban Art Graffiti in Geneva - Austin Schaeffer - Class of 2020.

Project descriptor: Photo book and ebook depicting urban art located in Geneva, Switzerland. The goal was to exhibit the colourful and unique urban art and to preserve it in a photo book, before it is cleaned by the municipal of Geneva.

Pink Club & Pink Day. Launched in 2019 this breast cancer awareness club is taken over by a new group of students every 2 years. Ask your peers or your CAS coordinator who is the current group leader this year to if you want to join.

Eco Committee. The Eco Committee in the Secondary School is a group of motivated students and staff who are working together to make LGB a more sustainable and environmentally friendly community. The committee has achieved a lot this school year on the theme of litter and waste. In June 2020 the Secondary school has received recognition from the largest international accreditation and education for sustainable development programme in the world, Eco Schools, and been awarded their label. 

LGB Express, the school's student run newspaper, is run by an Editor in Chief, who manages a team of 9 editors. They each correspond to a section of the newspaper, namely: LGB Interviews, School News, Inside LGB, The Arts, Science and its sub-section Environmental, Sports, Editorials, Expressed and World News. 

Concours de Musique. Reflecting the ethos and values of the International School of Geneva in striving for one's personal best, we are proud to announce the second annual Concours de Musique in the autumn of 2021, focusing on piano and violin soloists. Committed to providing artistic opportunities at the highest level, the Concours de Musique is open to all Ecolint students.  Winning students will have the opportunity to perform with the Community Orchestra - La Châtaigneraie and l'Orchestre de La Grande Boissière, under the direction of Juan David Molano and will also receive 2021 season tickets to the Orchestre Suisse Romande and be featured in Ecolint's Echo magazine. More information here. Furthermore students who wish to include music as creativity in their CAS portfolio can sign up for extra curricular individual music lessons, for different ensembles or for the Orchestre de la Grande Boissière on the LGB Music School website.

Duke of Edimburgh's International Award. Through developing transferable skills, increasing their fitness levels, cultivating a sense of adventure and volunteering in their community, the Award helps young people to find their purpose, passion and place in the world. The International Award and the International Baccalaureate CAS components have much in common and can be operated in conjunction with each other. If you are interested to join please contact the IA Coordinator for LGB, Mr Nicholas Vinatier, nicolas.vinatier@ecolint.ch. 

Bringing the Odyssey of the Mind thinking to our local EMS. Our wish was to challenge elders to think creatively in an effort to play a part in addressing the societal challenge of mental health issues found in those confined in an EMS (retirement home). We wanted to demonstrate positive citizenship through positive interactions with those in retirement homes, using teamwork and collaboration. We hoped to offer a model for school leaders and classmates on how we can begin locally, addressing citizenship. We wanted to apply what we have learned by being a part of the Odyssey of the Mind team, by taking it one step further and trying to communicate problem-solving skills with those challenged with mental health issues, such as dementia. Jack Mullen, Zaccary Jefford, Jiei Yamasato, Yujin Wang, Xiaroui Yang, Alexandre, Frandsen, Lubin Heurteux, Y9 -10 La Grande Boissière. Coordinator for OotM Angels, Marcia Banks, marcia.banks@ecolint.ch. 

La Grande Boissière Against Discrimination, group led by Dr. Conrad Hughes

Tutoring programme. Are you a HL student and would like to share your expertise in one to one tutoring lessons geared at secondary level students? Join the tutoring programme by writing to cristina.mocanu@ecolint.ch and alexandra.couet@ecolint.ch ! 

Thank-a-Thon. Join the Development team in an endeavor to thank Alumni and benefactors for their gifts to the Foundation. Please write to supporting-ecolint@ecolint.ch if you interested in joining this initiative.