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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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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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