Photo Gallery
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Becoming Myself: Passion, Creativity, Resilience, Belonging – The Personal Project Exhibition 2024-2025
This year’s Personal Project Exhibition took an outward perspective to orient the tenth-grade presenters and their views of “becoming myself”. On the exhibition’s opening night on Sunday (January 19), Grade 10 students showcased the outputs and results of their year-long project preparation and production. The projects centered in students’ passions and highlighted their creativity, resilience, and sense of belongingness despite the challenges in the past years. The exhibition opened to the public on Monday, much to the awe of the visitors from the Keystone community and other IB MYP schools in the city.
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Keystonians Scale Up Fun in Year of the Snake Festivities
The fun on the Keystone campus has been scaled up this week with several Year of the Snake festivities organized by students, faculty, and staff members. Earlier today (January 24), the campus community was treated to a hisss-terical extravaganza in the Keystone Temple Fair at the Secondary School (SS) Gym. And over in the Performing Arts Center, Primary School (PS) students have just finished cultural performances to usher in the new year. Yesterday (January 23), Keystone’s Dining team prepared a ssssumptuous Spring Festival-themed lunch for all students and employees. In the afternoon, the student-led publication The Voice gave treats and gifts to their avid supporters.
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Keystone Thought Lab | Explores Science and Paths to Truth with Tsinghua Lecturer Geng Deng
A graduate of Tsinghua’s Department of Chemistry and a postdoctoral fellow in the institution’s Department of History of the School of Humanities and the Institute of Education, Mr. Deng tapped into his diverse educational background to bring moments that broke away from the traditional framework of lecture and academic sharing. He also used humor and insightful narration to lead everyone on a journey around the keyword “science”.
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At Keystone Community Dinners, Boarding Students and Faculty Channel Respective Houses
Staying with fun activities before the end of 2024—the five Keystone Houses commemorated their sense of belongingness during separate House Community Dinners on different evenings in the last two weeks. At these special banquets, boarding students channeled their respective Keystone Houses for their attires. Each dinner also featured a sumptuous and themed menu.
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Keystone Thought Lab | Reshaping the World: Imagining the Future with Silicon Valley Visionary Steven Hoffman
In the second session of the Keystone Thought Lab series, Keystone Academy students, staff, and parents imagined a future full of technology that may sound too good to be true. The session guest, Silicon Valley visionary Steven Hoffman, provided ideas and prompts to help Thought Lab participants think of the rewards and perils of using such future inventions.
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Keystone Education Salon: Living with Uncertainty – How to Endure When Stability Slips Away
Aside from the Parent-Teacher conferences, another important event happened this week on campus with the newest edition of Keystone Education Salon, featuring Columbia University Professor John P Allegrante, PhD. In his keynote speech yesterday (November 21), “Living with Uncertainty: How to Endure When Stability Slips Away”, Dr. Allegrante discussed the main thesis of his book, Anxiety Culture, and the prevailing socio-cultural phenomenon of anxiety caused by developments worldwide. The succeeding panel discussion with Dr. Allegrante and representatives from the Keystone student and staff community situated the topic of cultural anxiety to its impact on the youth and their mental well-being. Stay tuned to In the Loop for our upcoming website article about Dr. Allegrante’s Education Salon.
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Wushu Team Win Big
Keystone Wushu Team achieved the highest overall score at the 16th Beijing Sports Conference Wushu Championship. Our 37-strong Wushu artists collectively bagged 15 gold medals, 13 silver medals, seven bronze medals, two first-place finishes, a second-place group award, and the “Sports Ethics” Award. Organized by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports and the Beijing Sports Federation, the Beijing Sports Conference Wushu Championship saw over a thousand student martial artists from over 90 participating teams during the event on November 9.
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Word Counts: For Keystone Thought Lab guest journalist-professor Leonard Cassuto, write as if readers matter a lot
Secondary School students learned a lot about academic writing, thanks to the visiting professor Leonard Cassuto. He was the inaugural speaker of the brand-new Keystone Thought Lab series.