International Institute

You are all invited to our "Viva Voce Night" this is a thesis defense for the IB Diploma extended essay.

Our students will be defending 7 Thesis, including:

*Perceptions of Women in Charlotte Bronte´s Jane Eyre,
*The Construction of the Self in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand,
*Racial Prejudice and Violence in Disadvantaged Communities, etc.

This will take place January 31st, 2018 at 6:00 pm at the Cultural House Gonzalez Gallo (The old train station in Chapala).

Champagne Toast & Tapas - Business Casual Dress
10th grade Art Exhibition with Prof. Remys Carvajal.

Thank you so much for supporting our Institute with the  Maceration of Skull Tissue by Mealworms project. We have raised almost all the money we needed, we are only missing 13.00 dollars! Please help us raise this last bit so the students can begin their project.

I will share the link again so you know how far we have gone  https://experiment.com/projects/maceration-of-skull-tissue-by-mealworms.
Once again, thank you for your help, and congratulations to our Green Council students and Teacher!

We will be having a Casino Night!
This will be on Thursday, November 30th at the International Institute, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

The students of the math olympiad club are organizing this event to raise funds for their club. This will be a great Casino Night, please come and join us to support our dear students!

The Internacional Institute´s Green Council is raising money for a new project: Maceration of Skull Tissue by Mealworms.
I will leave the link so you can read all about it. This is a great project for our Green Council students and their teacher Matt Pettus.
Please help us with this amazing project!

https://experiment.com/projects/maceration-of-skull-tissue-by-mealworms

These past days our students have been visiting some Universities in Guadalajara and will be visiting a few more.  They had a vocational test in ITESO so they can know what they are good for, and they are also going to UVM.

We hope they find their passion and seize it!

The International Institute, wishes everyone a Happy New Year and great things to come!

We had a great day today! Went to give out presents to the Tepehua Community Center for the children!

Merry Christmas!

Last Thursday, students had a wonderful time getting to know some of the great historic places in Guadalajara: Hospicio Cabañas, the philharmonic orchestra and down town Guadalajara.

Great experience for the studnts to get to know this beautiful city!

We had a great time at our Haunted House October the 31st and also our Altares of the Day of the Dead on November the 1st.

Students and staff made all this posible!

We had a great United Nations day last Monday 24th!
We turned the world blue symbolizing world peace.

Last Friday October the 14th Students from the International, Tecnologico de Chapala and CONALEP, Adopted a kilometer of the Libramiento, to clean it up.
Nice team work!

President of Inter's Student Council speaks at Open Circle about her life goals at the Lake Chapala Society. 

We had a great time in our Fiesta Mexicana! this past Friday September 23rd.
We celebrated our independence day with students performing "El grito" and we had all kinds of goodies!

Congratulations Instituto Internacional sports and chess for your success in Wednesday´s tournament!

Thank you Campus Universitario Octavio Paz for organizing and inviting us. 

eSun is fixing Sierra Farms´ solar panels today, free of charge!
They have been great with us and are always helping. Their work is always great!

Thank you eSun!

CANICA Mi amigo sin pelo (my friend with no hair)!

Sunday June the 19th There was a CANICA (support center for children with cancer) event in the Malecon de Ajijic from 10am to 2pm.

This was an incredible event full of emotions, kids and adults donating their hair and also helping with money.
With every donation CANICA collected 12,335 pesos for the foundation and also a lot of hair for wigs. 

We are so happy that this could take place and that we were able to help and support this great cause. 

Soccer Game!

Last Wednesday June the 22nd, boys and girls from our soccer team had a match against Terranova.
This was a very nice event where every student played a fun and friendly game.

In the Girls match Terranova won, but in the Boys match Instituto Internacional won!

Congratulations to all the kids!

Children´s day!!

Today the students of the International Institute went from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm to the Tepehua Community Center with their CAS (Creativity, Accion and Service) teacher, to have a fun time with the children and to take gifts that the students made for the kids at the Tepehua Center.

We are so proud of them for this creative and selfless deed! 

Last Friday our 11th and 12th graders went to visit an orphanage in Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos called "Esperanza en el corazón", to get to know the kids and play with them and also to prepare for April the 30th (Childrens day) to donate games and have a fun time with the little kids! 

Here at the International Institute the Doctor Rigoberto Rios came to visit and talk about his professional and educational experience, as well as talking to the students about what would they like to study after high school. Great information for the students!

He is an Ophthalmologist who studied in UDG (Guadalajara University) and his clinic is in Ajijic. 

On Thursday the 25th of February we had the "Day of the Art" project. This was an event orginized by a student from the International Institute,Daniel Rentería Cárdenas from 12 grade, that took place at the International Institute from 1:15 pm to 2:45 pm. Some of the local artists where invited to this event to expose their art work and to talk to the students about art.     

The main objective of this project was to demonstrate to other students that you can find art in everthing and everywhere, and that you can find an artist in everyon of us.