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The Inside Hoop on the 2022 Basketball Season

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Since the switch to online school, the girls and boys basketball teams have faced an extreme disruption to their season. Before school went online, the team only had a total of four-pre-season practices. On the day of the team’s first practice, the Guangdong E... More »

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Dynasties in High School: How Do the Students Feel?

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With the start of an exciting new school year, our school community is being reinvented for its 40th anniversary. One major change for the high school is that the dynasty system – a system previously only used in middle school – is including them as well! For ... More »

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AISG’s 40th Birthday; How Have We Grown as a School?

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On September 29, AISG celebrated its 40th year anniversary at both of its campuses’ locations. The celebration took place in the secondary campus’ plaza, where both the upper and lower secondary students gathered and sang a happy birthday song, led by the scho... More »

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Learning To Lead: 2021 Community Service Workshop

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The annual Community Service Student Coordinator Workshop took place on Saturday, August 7 at the Science Park campus. Led by Mr. Cheung, the workshop was attended by the new coordinators of this year’s community service (CS) clubs. In order to teach CS coordi... More »

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Thoughts On Season 2 Sports: Disappointed But Determined

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It has been nearly two weeks since the start of season two sports in AISG. Students had an opportunity to accumulate their experiences and improve on their skills either as dancers, swimmers, table tennis players, or basketball players. However, in the midst o... More »

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Travelling During Covid19 Is More Chaotic Than You Think

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Most people like traveling to new places because it allows them to be exposed to new places, cultures, and lets you have a more diverse perspective on the world. However, in the era of quarantine and hand sanitizers, instead of being exposed to new cultures, y... More »

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Meet the New Teachers Beyond Blurry Teams Photos

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For those of us on campus, it seems strange that it has been weeks into the school year and the hallways are still so empty. For those of us online, it must be even stranger that school is just a computer. New students and teachers, props to you for making it ... More »

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Pass or Fail Option: Advantage or Disadvantage?

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Due to the exacerbating conditions of Coronavirus worldwide, AISG students have been undergoing online learning for the past 3 months. With less face-to-face lessons and lectures, students are having a hard time keeping up with all the content they are require... More »

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An Open Letter from the Beacon Leadership Team

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Recently, The Beacon received a comment from a reader that heavily criticizes the publication, the work it produces, and the effectiveness of the leadership team. Rather than publish that comment on a specific article, we would like to address it publicly in t... More »

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Why I Think Gatsby is Great

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Last week during Spring Break, I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1924 masterpiece The Great Gatsby, a novel that I read long ago in middle school and yearned to re-read later, as a more mature thinker and reader. Yet, I could not find the time to do so until now, a... More »