How Are We Connected to Nature?
On the third floor of the UNIS Manhattan campus, just to the right of the central administrative offices, hangs a mixed media art exhibit which asks on of the pivotal questions of today's world: How...
View ArticleA Day of Service for United Nations Day
On most days, visitors to the United Nations International School would see our high school students busy at work on their latest composition or script, debating hotly contested issues at a Model UN...
View ArticleA Google Expedition for UNIS Students
Anyone passing by a UNIS elementary school classroom in mid-October would have been caught off guard by the morning's lesson plan: Students excitedly exclaiming as they peered into what appeared to be...
View ArticleUNIS Students Host 18th Annual Human Rights Conference
A quiet murmuring filled the UNIS theater on December 3, as roughly 50 high school students, all smartly dressed, sat poised and at attention. "Women's rights are human rights," quoted Janette Amer,...
View ArticleQueens Celebrates Winter with Music, Fun, and Crafts
Amidst family, friends, teachers and staff this morning, the UNIS Queens campus hosted their annual Winter Concert, celebrating the school's many accomplishments and hard work from the fall semester,...
View ArticleFor Juniors and Seniors, College Gets Personal at UNIS
It's a time most high school graduates across the world are viscerally familiar with: College application time. UNIS students, however, have one leg up on their peers: access to the College Office.
View ArticleUNIS Takes on Model UN
On a winter afternoon in February, 2000 delegates representing countries from around the world gathered at the Hilton Inner Harbor in Baltimore Maryland, to tackle some of the toughest issues facing...
View ArticleSlideshow: UNIS Students Examine the Media in 40th annual UN Conference
"We all have a story to tell, and the journey is only 1% finished." Facebook's Trevor Johnson hit the note in pitch-perfect form last Friday, when he addressed nearly 700 high school students from...
View ArticleUNIS-UN, 40 Years and Counting
It's not every day one has the opportunity to experience sitting in the mighty General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. Most never catch a glimpse inside the renowned chamber. UNIS students,...
View ArticleUNIS Students Take Center Stage at Paris Agreement Signing
Friday morning and the lobby of UNIS was already bustling—business as usual—except that it wasn't quite typical. Just 6:30 a.m., nearly 200 fifth and sixth graders squealed in excitement as they pulled...
View ArticleHow Are We Connected to Nature?
On the third floor of the UNIS Manhattan campus, just to the right of the central administrative offices, hangs a mixed media art exhibit which asks on of the pivotal questions of today's world: How...
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