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INSA DAY BY DAYApril 15, 2013 Volume Number 2
INSA STUDENTS AT TENNIS
TOURNAMENT IN THE CLUB
CAMPESTRE
In February, twenty-nine INSA students from grade
11 went to see the Bionaire Tennis Tournament in
Calis Club Campestre. The Bionaire is a tournament
that attracts some of the best young women playersfrom all over the world. It was a first time
educational experience for these INSA students both
in going to a professional tennis tournament and in
setting foot in Calis exclusive Club Campestre. At the
tournament they watched the matches and met one
of Colombias top women players, Marianna Duque,
and two other players from other countries. With this
outing, they also saw where their future successes in
universities and beyond could place them. It was a
great educational experience that they will never
forget.
Seniors learn about Higher
Education Opportunities
INSA tries to insure that its students are informed
about their opportunities for higher education. In
February, 25 seniors attended the University Fair in
Cali where they talked to representatives from
universities in Cali and other parts of the country. In
May they will make visits to ICESI university and to
the Autonoma university. They also have been
informed of a new scholarship that is offered by the
Autonoma, Ingenios, that covers all expenses.
These activities are especially important for INSA
students because in their families, more than in the
families of most other students headed for higher
education, they lack both the information and the
funds needed for attending universities.
INSA TEACHERS LEARN NEW WAYS TO
USE SCRATCH AND TIC IN THE
CLASSROOM
INSA teachers are exploring new ways to use Scratch
and TIC in the classroom by attending the educational
encounters sponsored by ICESI University and the
Gabriel Piedrahita Foundation. Scratch is, according
to Wikipedia, a programming language learning
environment enabling beginners to get results without
having to learn syntactically correct writing first and
TIC means Technologies of Information and
Communications. This year for two days, on May 31
and June 1, INSA teachers will accompany teachers
from other schools that use Scratch and TIC to learn
new applications and exchange their classroom
experiences. The themes of Edukatic, this years
encounter, are learning through projects and the uses
of Scratch 2.0.
Last year teachers from Cali, Bogota, Medellin,
Ibague, Moniquira, Rovira and Coello attended the
Scratch encounters. Some of the subjects treated
were: reading comprehension, simulation of Boyles
law, the procariot cell, biology and the history of the
computer. Last year INSA won second prize for its
presentation on using scratch to learn about the
history of computers. First prize went to the Marco
Fidel Suarez School in Coello, Tolima for the
presentation Goodbye to being scared of math.
INSA teachers are looking forward to attending
Edukatic and maybe theyll get the first prize this
time. Whether they get it or not its sure to be an
enriching experience that will benefit INSA students.
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Science Center Project
INSA students do
less well on
science subjects inthe national exams
and fewer of them
pursue careers in
science when they
go on to higher
education. Aware
of this need and
thanks to help
from INSAs friends
construction began
three months agoon the new science
center. When completed it will triple the space
dedicated to science teaching and provide INSA
students with the equipment and supplies they need
to do experiments. By doing experiments their
learning is made easier, they are motivated, and they
learn basic experimental techniques that are
employed in chemistry, biology and physics. Our
hope is that with the new science center more INSA
students will develop their talents in the sciences and
be motivated to pursue careers in those fields.
INSA student selected as
Ambassador
to the USA
Lina Maria Atillo, a
15 year old Native
Indigenous
Colombian, is an
INSA student. She
was born in Caloto,
Cauca, lived in the
TOEZ Indian
reservation and in
Caloto before
moving with her
mother and sister (who also is an INSA student) to
Calis Andres Sanin neighborhood and entering INSA
five years ago.
The American Embassy sponsors an all expenses
paid, three week visit for 12 Colombian students,
ages 15 to 18, to the States as junior ambassadors of
Colombia. Lina Maria was selected as one of these.
The theme of the visit is the natural environment.
This trip will open the world to Lina. Because, outside
of Cali, the only places she has been to are Popayan
and Santander de Quilichao. Her first taste of the
outside world will be when she boards an airliner to
fly to Bogota to go to the Embassy for her visa. She
will then get a taste of Colombias capital city, Bogota,
and it will also be her first airplane ride. Then, in
October, she will be off on the big trip to New York
City, the capital of the world. Understandably, shes
very excited about the trip.
The governor of the TOEZ Indian reservation, to
which she belongs, wrote a letter supporting her
candidacy. She will report to him and the other
Native Americans in her tribe when she returns. It
will be a great experience for her and a lesson for her
classmates that when opportunities appear you have
to go after them because nothing is impossible!
New Vacation Time Activities
32 INSA students, five to twelve years old,
participated in recreational, educational and cultural
activities for two weeks from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. during
their year end vacation in December.
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The leader of the team of INSA teachers who led the
activities was Liliana Homez, one of the schools most
experienced teachers who comes from INSAs
neighborhood, Andrs Sann. The vacation time
activities included the traditional Christmas Novena, a
show by Colgate on dental care, a ride on a fire
engine, a visit to the planetarium at the Air Force
base, and numerous excursions to parks and
swimming pools. The price for the two weeks of
activities that included a mid morning snack was
80,000 pesos, about $USA 45. Parents were very
happy with the program so no doubt there will be
increased enrollment when it returns this year.
THREE NEW TEACHERS
INSA has three new teachers
Melissa Weizman teaches French and English and
will also be teaching Portuguese next year. Her love
of Salsa music brought her to Cali and to Univalle
where, on exchange from Concordia University in
Montreal, she studied social work. After completing
her degree and a few months in Rio de Janiero where
she studied Portuguese she came back to Cali and is
now happily teaching at INSA.
Gustavo Aguirre rides his motorbike to INSA every
day from Calis La Sultana neighborhood on the
mountainside where he lives. He teaches one of the
Christian Life courses to INSAs primary and
secondary students. Before coming to INSA, he
studied philosophy for four years in Calis Major
Seminary. The texts he uses are the three books by
the Byzantine Brothers and the 11 books of the
Projects of Life series. Gustavo likes working with
INSA students.
Pin Fei, a native of Taiwan, teaches Mandarin in
INSA. Her family owns the Chinese restaurant, Zen,
on Calis sixth avenue. Before coming to INSA Pin Fei
taught private classes in Cali and Mexico. She and
her family moved to Cali six years ago. She likes
teaching in INSA very much, especially its
personalized education approach, that is, considering
the student as a whole person, not just as someone
who should learn the material. She says her
students, grades 7 to 10 are very motivated to learn
Mandarin.
INSAs Friends
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addresses. If you know of an INSA friend who does not receive our newsletter, you might
forward it to him or her. Also, let us know what you think about the newsletter. You can
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HELP US TO FINISH THE BUILDING OF THE SCIENCE CENTER!
Donations to INSA are always most welcome. We survive with the help of
our friends! You will receive a tax deductible document. Contributions can
be sent to:Basilian Fathers Missions
St Joseph Center In Colombia: Banco AV Villas
P.O. Box 708 Cuenta de ahorros: 121 113 781
Sugar Land, Texas 77487 Titular: Congregacin Padres Basilianos
Gracias, Thank you, Merci, Grazie for your help to our kids!
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