American High School 8th grade student Nitsa Skvitaridze has reviewed four books of great American novelist Robert Beatty. She was awarded Gold Level Certificate from US Ambassy, supported by American Corner and most fascinatingly Robert Beatty appreciated her reviews and cheered up Nitsa by congratulating her 13th birthday on his official FB page.

On November 5, 2021, in the framework of the First Friday Forum, AHS hosted an American speaker Tina Maglakelidze, co-founder of The Female Ambassador Project. Visiting speaker delivered an online presentation on the topic "Women in Diplomacy". The presentation provided a broad survey of women’s role and impact in the career field of international diplomacy. It outlined some general challenges faced as well as achievements reached throughout the 20th and 21st century. The meeting ended with a Q & A session.

Student Parliament Chairman Elections took place at the European School today, November 5th. This event enabled the ES community to bring democracy alive in the school. The election empowered students to experience the voting process firsthand and cast ballots for the official candidates running in the election. Students from grades 6-12 of all three programs (Georgian, IB, and AHS) participated in the voting process. Voting procedures that started at 9:30 a.m. and continued up until 2:00 p.m., went smoothly and no complications were recorded. In a transparent vote-counting process, the members of the administrative team of the school and chair candidates’ trustees were involved. The final results were declared at the Main Conference Hall. The student body joined the event online on the Zoom platform. The former chairman Anamaria Iakobidze addressed the candidates and wished for successful participation in the Parliament. Sophio Bazadze, the School Director announced the results and congratulated the winner. The Chairperson-elect is Giorgi Geladze.

On Wednesday, November 3rd, the European School hosted debates for the Student Parliament Chairman Elections. The debates began with presenting campaign videos. Later, the candidates introduced themselves and addressed their campaign platforms to the student body. The debate was held over Zoom, and each candidate had 10 minutes to answer questions submitted by those attending the event. The candidates debated topics including student concerns, how best to address student needs, which clubs and activities to offer to make student life more interesting. 

In the framework of the U.S. President’s Education Awards Program, the AHS students Anna Davitashvili, Anna Danelia and Nikoloz Khaduri got the U.S. President’s Award. On October 22, 2021, these students received certificates and pins for their outstanding academic excellence in middle school.

Promoting academic integrity in the learning environment is one of the main priorities of the European School. Contract cheating, best described as the “outsourcing of student work to third parties”, undermines learning, damages learning relationships, and increases the tendency among students to engage in dishonest behavior in their professional careers. To mark the International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating, created by the International Center for Academic Integrity and celebrated on October 20, the American High School hosted the White Board Declaration Campaign on October 21, 2021. The AHS students demonstrated negative attitudes toward academic dishonesty. They are against plagiarism, express their ideas creatively and freely, enjoy learning and believe honesty is the key to success.

On October 20th, 2021, within the Global Ethics Day created by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, the American High School held a hybrid poster presentation conference – Education Empowers Future Leaders: Thinking Ethically, Acting Globally. The AHS students presented themes addressing global ethical issues. The conference marked the American High School on a world map of organizations celebrating Global Ethics Day.

In the framework of the AHS First Friday Forum, on October 1, 2021, a head of the Department of Classical Philology at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, a famous researcher and translator, laureate of the State Award Nana Tonia delivered an online lecture “Euripides and Politics”. The visiting guest talked about the history of the ancient Greek theatre, theatrical culture and its impact on society. Professor Tonia also discussed the tragedies of Euripides, his ideas and Athenian democracy. The lecture ended with a Q & A session. 

We are pleased to announce that on August 4th, the American High School received accreditation from the National Centre for Educational Quality Enhancement for four years. The AHS is accredited by the International Accreditation Organization Cognia. As a school that seeks continuous improvement, the AHS started the preparation for national accreditation several months ago. Undertaking the accreditation process required a big commitment not only from the AHS team but active collaboration from the ES community and structures of the European School. National accreditation is an important stage in the development of the AHS.