The Coronavirus has negatively impacted many industries. Private corporations are struggling to maintain their business due to the effects of COVID-19. The global pandemic has caused many businesses, such as restaurants, grocery stores, shopping malls to close... More »
Next year, sophomores will be starting their first year of IB and juniors are completing their final year of IB. Here are a few words of advice from the current AISG seniors and the graduating class of 2020! Gabriel K. shares his biggest advice when entering I... More »
On Monday, May 25, police officers arrested a man named George Floyd. The police officers handcuffed him and then proceeded to kneel on his neck. George cried out to them and said that he could not breathe multiple times. The officer that was on top of Floyd d... More »
As an extremely multi-cultured school, AISG has a lot of students from everywhere around the globe. However, there are still a majority of students that transferred from local schools around China. There are a lot of significant differences between local schoo... More »
With the exacerbating situation of COVID-19, many rising university freshmen are now facing a new dilemma: whether to defer their first year of university to avoid the risk of getting the coronavirus or take online classes. This article features thoughts of st... More »
During the final week of April, students and teachers were sent an email introducing us to the candidates who were running for the Executive Council. There were a total of nine candidates, so there was no doubt that this year’s Executive Council elections were... More »
The International Baccalaureate Curriculum that we are familiar with is yet changing again to be applied in the year 2020 and to be first tested in 2022. The changes to the curriculum are not as significant as the changes that took place in 2019. It is surpris... More »
Since the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak has dominated the year of 2020, businesses have slowed and people have been unwillingly stuck in their homes or in foreign countries. In the midst of this pandemic, students can tend to be unmotivated to finish their a... More »
It is no doubt that the global pandemic of the Coronavirus has been negatively impacting students’ academic and social lives. It is especially unfortunate for the seniors as their last semester of high school was spent separate from one another. Seniors had to... More »
As the school year draws to a close, we would like to wish The Beacon’s two editors-in-chief, Abby P. and Gabriel K. good luck in the future and bid them a farewell from The Beacon after two years of them at the helm. They are graduating this year as a part of... More »
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 »
As of today, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc among many countries’ healthcare systems, pushing hospitals all around the world to their limit. Many schools, such as our own, have moved to online learning as well, due to the pandemic. Zoom, an app created by Zoom Vid... More »