News & Events

Aleksandra Szczęsny (Ola) UWCD’18, who is currently a student  at Connecticut College, USA, reflects on her experience at UWCD and how it “brought the whole world closer”. Ola also shares how becoming a young mother changed her priorities making her life richer and more fulfilled. (In the picture: Ola with her daughter Amelia.)

Congratulations to Takhona Hlatshwako UWCD’18, who was named Rhodes Scholar to pursue global health and tropical medicine at Oxford University!

Ibsa, our second-year student from Ethiopia, has finished working on a coding boot camp for high school students that was organised under his Tech01 Society. Read his story about this exciting initiative that opened up the world of coding for more than 30 students!

Ani is our first-generation alumna from Armenia. After UWCD, Ani completed her studies at King’s College London and was determined to return to Armenia to use her skills and experience to benefit her country. She currently works at the National Democratic Institute as the Program Officer of the women’s empowerment team.
 

Last week we hosted Tina Zournatzi, the Head of Strategic Communication at the European Commission.
Tina oversees corporate communication campaigns at pan-European level, while also spearheading the Commission’s strategic communications response to disinformation. Tina held an interactive workshop with our students on “ How to spot and counter disinformation”.

David is our DP1 student from Italy. David is one of the organisers of Fridays for Future - a youth-led global climate strike movement that started in August 2018. Together with other activists David organised six global strikes, bringing millions of people onto the streets of even the remotest places of Earth. In September a climate strike took place at UWC Dilijan. 

Our alumnus Emilio Rosas Gutierrez (Mexico, UWCD'21) was awarded the Woodruff Scholarship from Emory University in Atlanta, USA, where he plans to major in art history or linguistics. During his two years in Dilijan, Emilio founded the mindfulness club at school, served on the Student and Community Councils and Sustainability Committee and was a facilitator for Dilijan Community Center’s art workshops with children.