Co-Curricular in High School

Overview: By using the machines built by Construction by Design, our club takes plastic waste and shreds it, so that usable products can be made. We focus on designing products that are innovative and marketable to our community. We are also collaborators, sharing the manufacturing processes we develop with other communities around Kenya, providing a means for them to collect plastic waste and turn it into something usable. Through the sales of our products, we hope to find the manufacture of more machines, so that other communities around Kenya can join us in removing plastic from the environment.

Overview: It is said that Kenyan coffee is one of the world’s five best coffees. Learn more about coffee in this course. You will learn how to use coffee machines, how coffee is graded in cupping events, and how coffee is grown and processed in Kenya. You will have a chance to visit coffee farms and roasting factories. International barrister certification will be organized at the end of the course which will enable you to work in any coffee shop across the world as a summer job or during college.

Overview: Tupike Global Dishes is cooking, baking, and nutrition club where you learn how to cook different dishes from around the world. You learn how to cook a full meal from starters to desserts and everything in between. Taught by ISK’s chef, Fred, we cover foods from all around the world from countries like France and India to those closer to home like South Africa to Kenya. Our club gives a select number of high school students (max 14) who are passionate about the art of food, cooking, and baking the opportunity to learn about and how to cook/bake foods all around the world and gives an opportunity to learn and improve their cooking skills and abilities. The club plants and maintains a kitchen garden as well.

Overview: Design Studio is a student-led design company that offers prototyping services to our community and local businesses. Our team of designers, artists, and makers learn how to design and develop products using our state-of-the-art equipment like Laser cutters, 3D printers, and milling machines.

Overview: We are glad to bring back a Dungeons and Dragons/Roleplaying club to ISK this year. Dungeons and Dragons is an innovative tabletop roleplaying game set in a fun fantasy world. The experience of D&D encourages student’s imagination, creativity, and critical thinking skills as well as helping each other make new friends and building deeper connections with old ones. There is an immense opportunity for problem-solving, strategy, enjoyability, and building of an individual’s character, all included in the experience of playing D&D. Throughout the semesters we want to familiarize everyone a part of the club with the game and start enjoying the roleplaying, storytelling, and overall experience of Dungeons and Dragons in addition to creating strong bonds or friendships with students we might not have met otherwise.

Overview: Students meet to exchange prompts and ideas, as well as to share writing and give each other feedback. Visual Arts Studio time and materials are also available to work on either individual or collaborative projects. Depending on individual interests and ideas visual media is open, whilst there are also opportunities for some Graphic Design and illustration project work. We also enter a range of international competitions and publish "Elements", ISK's first-ever quarterly Digital Arts magazine.

Overview: Global Issues Network (GIN) empowers ISK students to solve and create sustainable solutions for real-world problems they are passionate about. We aim to allow students to not only debate global crises but have a genuine impact, by creating positive change. Some of our current focuses include working with refugees in Nairobi and tackling the issue of sustainable energy by endeavoring to provide solar power to those in need. GIN inspires students to find and implement their own global solutions, become global citizens, and be true leaders of our community.

Overview: The Greenhouse Club runs the ISK Greenhouse, tree nursery, aquaponics, and biogas system with a mission to teach and promote sustainable food production and healthy eating within the wider school community. In the past, we have helped set up a vegetable garden at a local school using the skills and experience they gained running the ISK greenhouse. The goal is to get ISK students off their computers and engage with nature/outdoors, hopefully learning some lifelong skills.

Overview: Interact is an international Rotary-sponsored service organization for students between the ages 14 and 18 years. Interact stands for ‘International Action’ and gives students an opportunity to participate in fun, meaningful service projects while developing leadership skills and personal integrity, demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others, understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work, and advancing international understanding and goodwill. For more information, see attached Interact Brochure