Graduate Profile
educational conferences that take place around the
sports equipment such as soccer balls and frisbees
world. In October 2018, a delegation of Keystone were given out to help keep the students active and
students travelled to Ottawa, Canada to attend a engaged through physical activities. Books were
conference set up by the Round Square Organization, also donated to a local school classroom, courtesy
a federation of nearly 200 like-minded and of parents who had purchased used books from
socially-conscious schools of which Keystone is a the Roundabout Charity Organization in Shunyi,
member. “By attending this conference, I learned Beijing.
about so many different global perspectives. I have
experienced diversity through other programs that
“Jasmin has a strong link to who she is and she
I have attended. However, students in the Round possesses deep understanding, broad knowledge,
Square Organization are special. They are more and tangible respect for what it is to be Chinese,
willing to speak with other people regardless of with its thousands of years of literature, philos-
race, background or nationality. By speaking with ophy, culture,” Patricia Power, Jasmin’s Theory
them throughout this conference, I gained so much of Knowledge Teacher and IB Extended Essay
knowledge from different parts of the world,” Coordinator, said. “At Keystone, she has been given
Jasmine said. a very strong platform from which to see the world.
One of Jasmin’s longest service initiatives during and their culture in this way, and it gives her the
her tenure at the Academy has been her active certainty from which to view the world.”
Few young people know this about themselves
involvement in the annual service trip to Nepal.
Each year, students are selected by a council com- “She is curious and she doesn’t show this in a loud or
prised of teachers and students to attend a service ‘pick me’ kind of way but in an steady, assured way,”
trip whose goal is to help a community in need. Mrs. Power continued. “She has this ability to bring
Attending this global service trip has been one of other people on this journey with her. I don’t know
the highlights of her time on campus. why or how but she does. And this is what makes
her a great learner.”
During the 2019 Nepal Spring Talent Concert at
Keystone, students sung, danced, and acted to
raise funds to purchase materials for the Nepalese
The Journey Continues
community during their service trip. The delega-
tion painted classrooms in bright colors, animating Jasmin
the environment to stimulate and improve the University in Scotland, famous for producing grad-
has
been
accepted
by
St.
Andrew’s
Nepalese students’ learning experience. Students uates such as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
organized and taught mathematics, Chinese, and The flexibility of the curriculum at St. Andrew’s,
even personal hygiene classes to students in a local where she intends to study Anthropology and East
school in the hilltop municipality of Bandipur. Asian Languages, will allow Jasmine to continue to
explore her passions and other academic interests
In another service initiative project that Jasmin
while also completing more service work in her
spearheaded, the group even provided each new community. “I’m looking forward to studying
student a hygiene pack filled with toiletries as a in a new country,” Jasmin said. “I feel like this will
supplement to their hygiene course. In addition, be another chapter in the book of my life.”
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