Matthew Groves | HS Principal
Andrew Wiese | HS Associate Principal
 

🎓 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE AAS CLASS OF 2022! 🎓

Thank you to all the families who have supported our graduates, and all of our students. This past weekend was a wonderful celebration of learning and the culmination of all of our joint efforts. 

Visit the AAS Moscow Graduation 2022 page, where you can see either a full replay of graduation, or a brief overview of the festivities.

Visit the page now

In addition to our own academic awards, we’d like to highlight two seniors who received awards of distinction from beyond AAS.

Hahn
National Merit Scholarship Finalist and winner of a $2500 scholarship to a US university.
He is one of 7,500 finalists from approximately 1.5 million US students who take the PSATs

Elke
US Presidential Scholar.
With only 161 students overall, and only 3 from international schools, this prestigious award celebrates students achievement based on academic success, essays, community service and leadership.
 

⭐️  Learning this Week

It has been fantastic to speak with grade 11 students as they participate in this year’s Theory of Knowledge Exhibition.

Their insight, questions and topics were fascinating and provided us with wonderful and wide-ranging conversations.
 

🗂  End-of-Year Records

At the end of the day on June 17 you will be able to access transcripts and end-of-year report cards in PowerSchool.

Official transcripts and leaving packs will be available beginning the following week. To request official records and leaving packs, please let us know here.

Request the records here
 

From: Sean Sonderman
 

📝  Grade 12 IB Exams

Congratulations to Sunoh and Anna B. on the completion of their May 2022 Exams!

Now we can all look forward to Results day on July 6.
 

☝️  CAS completion

The IB’s Community, Activity, and Service program is a requirement for AAS graduation and for receipt of the IB Diploma.

We had an April 1 deadline for all CAS material to be completed. If you have not completed your CAS you need to contact Ms. Natasha right away. AAS will not graduate students who have not completed this important program satisfactorily. Mr. Sonderman contacted families and students before the break to remind everyone of this important requirement.
 

🏛  Grade 12s – Protocol for releasing IB Results Transcripts to Universities

We're getting close to the end of the year. Ms. Natasha and I are getting the logistics set and plans in place while our teachers work with your kids to finish the year.

I will soon ask all students to supply Ms. Natasha with a form detailing the university they plan to attend, or those they are planning to choose from, so that we can send Results Transcripts to universities, regardless of the exam route they are on. For those applying to the US/Canada you can only name 1 or 2 universities respectively. This is not due until July 1 (although I want it before they leave AAS). However, for those applying anywhere else, the due date is May 1 in the IB system. I am letting you know this now a I believe everything will take a while longer to complete from a distance. So, these will be pressing soon.

After July 1, we cannot send IB Results transcripts for any student.

Therefore, I am adding the website access link here:

http://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/assessment-and-exams/requesting-transcripts/

Hopefully, you will never need this site. But, invariably some students have a need to release their transcripts for a variety of reasons. If you have any questions about exams please let me know.
 

⭐️  Grade 11s- TOK Exhibition

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, May 23-24, all Grade 11 TOK students took part in their TOK Exhibition.

The Exhibition is the culminating experience of the TOK class and represents the sole assessment in the course. Students met in a virtual environment to present their Knowledge Question-based commentaries to an audience of their peers, faculty, and administrators. It was a great experience. Congratulations to the Grade 11s.
 

With just a few weeks left of this school year, we are hoping that each of you is finding a path forward for next year and a bit more ease with your upcoming transitions.

We are here to help you as you take these steps moving forward and to this light we are offering a PK-12 Parent Transition Session, this Thursday, May 26, at 13:00 MSK.

Join here

This will be a time to discuss the transition process from a social-emotional perspective, appreciate the uniqueness of our upcoming transitions and share important steps that you can take as a parent and for yourself as you transition to a new school, location and/or home.

We would love to have you join us!

This session will be recorded and emailed to all AAS Families, in case you are unable to make it.
 

⭐️ Summer Opportunities

If you and your child happen to be looking for opportunities, online or in-person, for summer programs or interested in engaging in university visits, in-person or online, this summer the AAS University Counseling page is a good resource.

Visit AAS University Counseling Page

This page is updated daily with new resources as we hear about them. If you do not see what you are looking for and need a hand, please reach out to your child's counselor. We are happy to meet with you and talk through some possibilities and resources. For summer programs, click on "pre-university experiences" and for university visits, click on "open days".