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Travel begets travel; it's like a gambling habit with both immediately apparent and dormant benefits for the mind and spirit. As I've explained to many friends and family members, these experiences do not satiate some hungry beast that can eventually become full. Travel doesn't get out of your system. Each experience can inspire a realization of the possibility of infinitely more experiences. We clutch our wallets and apologize, pinch our...

On December 6th, 2012, Buenos Aires' name became ironic. While the morning routine of making coffee and walking to work was uneventful (aside from the rain and rolling thunder), those of us sitting in the staff room started to receive emails, phone calls and tweets about a toxic cloud that was covering the "City of Good Air." Social media kept us in the loop, instructing us to close all of our...

PRESENTED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY to jump the river to a new country, TGS students were asked to find something that interested them in Uruguay over our 26-hour stay. These self-directed projects were to live digitally and able to be shared to the masses (also known as new media). The pre-IB students found support through their World Literature and Global Studies courses, with additional technical support in the newMedia Lab. Not...

AN EXCURSION AT TGS could be a gaucho fair visit, an opera at the Teatro Colón, a rock climbing gym session, or even a boat ride over the Río de la Plata to Uruguay. Recently, students and staff took the hour-long ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay for two days of experiences. Whether we were visiting an archeological site or the President's country property, everyone got an...

For TGS students, education doesn't stop at the close of the school day. The ResLIFE team explains the essential elements of their living and learning program that occurs outside the academic setting.

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT NICHOLAS KULISH lives in Berlin, Germany and reports for The New York Times on all aspects of life for the surrounding European countries. Kulish visited the TGS students while conducting school in Berlin to answer their questions about the Euro Crisis and his intriguing career. Does anyone here want to be a writer when they grow up? (many hands raise) ...I discourage you...but I'm also proud of you....

ON A RECENT SATURDAY AFTERNOON, Global Studies teacher Nick Martino took the student body to Plaza San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the base of the monument for José de San Martín, Nick gave a quick lesson on this founding father's guidelines for good citizenship. This discussion was interwoven with a continued dialogue regarding the TGS Core Values and the IBO Learner Profile. Students deliberated on the similarities and...

  I've always linked traveling to family rather than friends or people my age. Or if it were traveling with people my age, it would be just friends from home. The Amazing Race put me with three other people whom I would have never thought I'd have the chance to travel with, and it was just plain amazing! It honestly did not feel like real life. Those four days were...

On June 30th, 2012, students and staff moseyed into the shadows of the Vienna State Opera, iPhones in hand. A cue from three student DJs set the entire TGS community into dance mode simultaneously. The mix was an audio project for the three students in newMedia Lab, a weekly time block for grades 9 and 10 that supports the development of new media skills. The experience was a memorable one...

While conducting classes in Berlin, Germany, THINK Global School received many visits from Dr. Joseph Pearson, a Cambridge historian, writer, and resident of Germany's capital. In one of these enlightening lectures, Dr. Pearson had the students analyze whether they believe an individual or the collective can change history. Following this discussion, Dr. Pearson equipped the students to look at the Nazi Regime through various historical perspectives, including: political, social, cultural,...