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Monday, August 9, 2021

Aug 09, 2021

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone’s having a great summer. IBlieve hit a milestone with our 10th Global Virtual Summit this weekend, in which current IB students talked with pre-IB students about their subjects! Everyone left with their questions answered and a confident idea of the programme ahead of them. Starting IB is nerve-wracking, so we appreciate how reassuring honest, positive interactions with upperclassmen can be. 🤩

We love getting to know everyone in this community, and hearing about all your incredible projects. Scroll to Community Spotlights for your chance to be shared with our 2200+ newsletter subscribers around the world!

Here’s what you’ll find in today’s newsletter:

August’s Global Virtual Summit Recap
NEW Blog Posts!
Welcome to our Team: New HSAs!
Community Spotlights: REVIR and Project KEYtaab
IG Sneak Peek: How to be Productive!
Student Spotlight: Lisa

Cheers,

Imogen and Katie❤️

Share IBlieve Weekly 🌏

🌏 August’s Global Virtual Summit! 💫

In August of 2021, we hosted our tenth Global Virtual Summit (GVS), with 80 participants! This was our first Pre-IB subject fair, with current students being able to share their experiences with the various IB subjects. Thank you to the lovely students who joined us. We really appreciate your awesome feedback and support! 🤩

This is what the students loved about this month’s GVS:

📚 Blog Posts!

Whenever you have a question about IB, check out our Blog! With over 180 posts, you’re sure to find super helpful advice from our amazing IB graduates and High School Ambassadors. Here are all our most recent articles!

✏️ Literature

Overview: Spanish A Literature SL - Doménica
Overview: English A Literature SL - Vaishnavi
Overview: Turkish A Literature - Zeynep
Tips for Vietnamese A Literature - Vy

🎨The Arts

Explore our blog for more!

Welcome to our Team!🤩

We’re so excited to welcome our newest High School Ambassadors to IBlieve’s team! They will all be contributing to our work supporting IB students across the world. Here, we’re introducing the new additions to our Social Media and Video Team, who will be supporting students on Community Slack. Keep an eye out in future weeks for more new HSA announcements!

Amelia - IB1, Norway 🇳🇴
Crystal - IB1, Malaysia 🇲🇾
Lucas - IB1, Uruguay 🇺🇾
Neha - Pre-IB, Japan 🇯🇵
Tristan - IB1, Philippines 🇵🇭
Isha - Pre-IB, India 🇮🇳
Francine - IB1, Philippines 🇵🇭
Hadi - IB2, Malaysia 🇲🇾
Mridula - Pre-IB, India 🇮🇳
Nicole - Pre-IB, Philippines 🇵🇭
Rujula - Pre-IB, India 🇮🇳
Shazra - IB1, Singapore 🇸🇬

🎙Community Spotlights

We’re super excited to also be spotlighting IBlieve community members and friends! This week we’re highlighting REVIR and Project KEYtaab.

If you know inspiring people or projects in the IB community, or are pioneering something yourself, let us know! We want to support and promote student-led initiatives which strive for social impact, and highlight students who are doing great things.

Share your project on Community Slack for your chance to be featured, or email us at iblieve.contact@gmail.com.

REVIR - IBlieve Community Members Gayeon Kassy Koh, Mili and Sayda.

REVIR were inspired by Covid-19 to work to solve the world’s problems.

“REVIR is a perfect opportunity for passionate and spirited persons of integrity to join hands with diverse students globally. Our mission is to leverage comparative analysis of public health statistics, economic indicators, and accessibility to unbiased information to impact welfare, equality, and fairness across the globe.
REVIR is a project built by youth for youth and a borderless movement that benefits from cross borders discussions and actions. Collecting both quantitative and qualitative data as a means of research enables us to examine and expound the consequences of the novel coronavirus. All participants will receive a certificate of participation and will proudly be able to feature their experience on their university applications and CV by contributing to a global initiative.”

Apply here!

Project KEYtaab - IBlieve Community Member Yasheeta

Project KEYtaab, an initiative by Muskurahat Foundation, aims at providing the underprivileged children from Shelter Homes and orphanages with the holistic development that they lack.

“Through a specially crafted curriculum we are trying to give them a right Upbringing, which they do not get 21st century life skills like critical thinking and problem solving among many others, and improve their emotional well-being through Therapy.
They are working with 450 children currently, in 11 shelter homes/orphanages, across 3 cities. Donate and help us launch the project in 15 more cities, transforming the lives of 1000+ children. (Referral Code: yas4833)”

Learn more!

📲IG Sneak Peak

Find beautiful illustrations of our best advice on our Instagram and Facebook. Here are Phoebe’s tips on how to best be productive!

Check out our IG for more!

🌟 Student Spotlight

We’re inviting new High School Ambassadors or IB graduates to write messages every week, so we can hear more student voices and IB experiences around the world. Today, we’ll hear from Lisa, a M22 IB student from Switzerland!

Hey everyone,
It’s that time of the year (almost back to school time)! We hope you enjoyed a safe and fun summer while balancing the IB workload. You probably had a lot to do from IAs and Yes, so it’s important to get some quality rest time before going back into it. You may feel excitement or stress, but remember that we’re all in this together. IBlieve is always here to support you and you can take a look at our online blog posts for tips and guidance.
Feel free to join Community Slack to chat with other IB students about your summer and make friends with passionate individuals who share the same interests as you!
Lots of love,
Lisa 🙂

👋 See you next week!

Thanks so much for reading this week! We believe in you!

Sending virtual hugs,

Anoushka

M21 Grad from Hong Kong 🇭🇰