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In 2019, Keystone students helped paint a school clasroom in Bandipur, Nepal
members. Not only that, she also taught herself place each academic year for Grade 11 and 12
how to structure lesson plans like a real teacher and students. This is a yearlong project where stu-
learned to edit videos. She even established a part- dents present a range of topics to the members of
nership between Keystone and a migrant school in the community. Students are guided by Patricia
Yunnan and several migrant schools in Beijing.
Power, Keystone’s Theory of Knowledge Teacher
and Extended Essay Coordinator, and they tackle
Fast forward to 2019, Cindy used her experience to together local and global problems through CAS
expand her personal project to her IB CAS. During projects, in-depth analyses through a 4,000-word
her final year at Keystone, Cindy comfortably extended essay, or depictions of social problems
explained her CAS project during her IB Diploma through the visual and performing arts.
Core CAS presentations, pleased that her passion
has taken her on a journey beyond the gates of
“I’ve passed on this legacy now to a team of Grade
Keystone. 11 students and Keystone’s Service Council,” Cindy
The Diploma Programme Core Exhibition takes of 2020) and her peers have expanded my project to
said confidently. “Team leader Frankie Fan (Class
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