By: Yuki Shibata (11)

with Worthing Bailey (Grade 12)

By: Vera Lin (Grade 8) On Monday, the 19th of January, the community came together to celebrate all the 8th-grade students' hard work these past months as they prepared for the annual Community Project Expo. As part of the MYP curriculum, this project allows students to extend the knowledge they have gained across all 8 classes and to identify the community's needs/issues they truly care about. Over the past few months, when students were introduced to this project, they st

By Noah Lindsay (Grade 12) & Jay Cheung (Grade 11) Opening Ceremony: “If we do not want to die together in war, we have to live together in peace,” quotes head of Kaohsiung American School, Jim Laney, during his speech in the opening ceremony of the first ever Kaohsiung Model United Nations conference. The room fills with tension and excitement as hundreds of debaters from Taipei, Hsinchu, Tainan, and Kaohsiung await to engage in debate that is not only riveting, but also un

by Oscar Lin (Grade 12) Amidst the scramble to study for exams, balancing school with life, while building a functioning and intricate machine, the members of the KAS robotics team, Laputa (Team ID: 19908), devoted countless hours every week for several months in preparation for the annual FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), which happened last week. This year, the theme was DECODE, where the robots are to not only score balls in their respective goals, but also sort the colors in t

Q. Where do you live now? Why? What are you doing?  A: I currently live in Tegucigalpa, the capital of my home country Honduras . Being back home has honestly been really special, it's a  beautiful tropical country with so much nature and warmth. I’m studying at UNITEC ( Universidad Tecnologica Centroamericana ), a private university, where I am majoring in Business Administration and Business Analytics.  One of my favorite parts of this stage of my life has been making so ma

by Haru Shih (Grade 9) & Geoffrey Wen (Grade 12) Editors Note: This was the 58th Annual THIMUN The Hague in the Netherlands Conference . It is a four-day simulation of the UN and was from January 26 - 30th this year. Our school sent four students (Haru, Ben and Raysen from Grade 9 and Geoffrey from Grade 12) and two teachers ( Ms. Fidalgo and Mr. Q) . Haru: I attended THIMUN The Hague with Ben, Raysen, and Geoffrey. Ben, Raysen, and I participated as delegates representing an

Soleil left our school at the end of last year, when she finished 10th grade, to move to the UK. Q. Where do you live now? Why? What are you doing? A: I am currently in the UK, studying the IB in Sevenoaks School, Kent.  Q. What are the biggest differences between there and Kaohsiung? What’s the biggest similarities?  A: Adjusting to life here has been a whirlwind, with boarding being the most significant change. There’s something special about living alongside your peers th

By: Yuki Shibata (11) The Kaohsiung American School varsity football team ended the 2025-26 season with a second-place finish in the TISSA campaign. For the AISA season, only one senior, Jack Hu (12), is joining the team as the first-choice goalkeeper. As the AISA football season begins, the varsity football team is training and working hard towards the main tournament in April.  Today, I had the amazing opportunity to sit down and talk with the three seniors who played in th