📝 High School Ambassador (HSA) Applications now OPEN! Join our Team!🚀
Monday, November 30th, 2020
Happy Monday!
We hope everyone had a great weekend, especially if you celebrated Thanksgiving. We’re so thankful for this global, supportive community committed to learning and helping one other.🌎
Our new IBlieve Community Slack has shown how uniting the IB can be–whether it’s through students sharing their hobbies or setting up virtual study sessions to motivate each other! IBuddies, our new HSA-led peer support program is inspired by this spirit, bringing together Y2 and Y1 students to share their knowledge as early as now.🙌
Lastly, after much anticipation, IBlieve is excited to announce our High School Ambassador (HSA) program is now open for 2021! We are looking for 20 students to join IBlieve’s team in our next cohort. All prospective and current IB students are welcome to apply. See details below to apply.
Cheers,
Imogen and Katie❤️
💬 Join IBlieve’s Team as an HSA!
As a High School Ambassador (HSA), you will help IBlieve create a positive, tight-knit IB community that supports IB students worldwide to be the best they can be.
You will gain experience in leadership, team management, and organization, as you work together in a high-energy and creative environment. You can expect to grow as a leader, learner, and individual. But most importantly, you will find a family. Read our full vision here: https://bit.ly/IBlieveHSAVision
The deadline for applications is December 25, 2020 at 11:59PM GMT. We recommend 2 hours to complete our application. Once you submit, you should hear back from us by the first week of January! We can’t wait to read your responses!
📚 NEW Blog Posts!
Whenever you have a question about IB, check out our blog! With over 100 posts, you’re sure to find super helpful advice from our top-scoring IB graduates. We post new articles every week. Today, we’re featuring our collection of resources!
🌟New Blog Posts!
4 Tips on How to Select Your IB Subjects - Micaela
📖 IB Textbooks & Past Papers
💯 Best FREE Resources
🎙Community Spotlights
This week, we’re super excited to be spotlighting some of our very own HSAs and Community members creating incredible initiatives!
1. so she CAN - Celine and Alysa, IB in USA and Canada🇺🇸🇨🇦
Celine and Alysa founded so she CAN, an organization helping ALL make change through education and empowerment! They hope to shed light on stories often put aside, as well as popular current issues, on their website and YouTube channel! so she CAN also has a podcast called so she CAN speak (which the first episode is now available on YouTube!)
2. Project Hygeia - Caitlin, IB in the Philippines🇵🇭
Project Hygeia, in collaboration with Step Up PH, is a small community project started by Caitlin and two other passionate high school students from the Philippines Through this project they aim to raise awareness about the significance of cleanliness and hygiene through distribution of various toiletries and hygiene products.
3. DP Nkombe - Ato, IB in Ghana🇬🇭
Ato, our IBlieve Community member, made a YouTube channel for his CAS project, to show everyone tips and tricks, as well as the stages of CAS, EE’s, IA’s, and more! Go support him on this wonderful project!
🌍World News
Our new section, helping you stay informed and engaged about issues close to your home and afar. We don’t just want to raise awareness; we want to equip you with actionable ways to help communities who are struggling. Note: These issues are brought to us by members of our community who are experiencing these realities.
SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) Disease in Turkey🇹🇷
The rare neuromuscular disease causes muscle weakness and atrophy, impacting simple actions like swallowing and standing up. The gene therapy (named Zolgensma) is considered the world’s most expensive drug, with a price tag of US$2.125 million! Due to the expensive cost, thousands of children with the SMA disease are unable to afford the medicine.
📋 How You Can Help
Sign petitions:
Life-saving treatment for infants with Spinal Muscular Atrophy now!
All Canadians with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) have a right to life saving treatment!
Learn More:
'It will be too late for her': Parents race to afford 'world's most expensive drug' - CTV
Why a life-saving drug for babies with a rare muscular disease costs 2.8M for families - CTV
Spinal muscular atrophy - Wikipedia
📲Stay updated with IBlieve!
Find beautiful illustrations of our best advice on our Instagram and Facebook. Here’s Sue, our High School Ambassador, and her 5 tips to destress!
👋 Catch you next week!
Thanks so much for reading this week! We believe in you.
Sending virtual hugs,
Celine
High School Ambassador (HSA) from Canada🇨🇦
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