This animated movie features a snowman named Olaf who loves warm hugs.
Frozen
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies independent from Great Britain.
Declaration of Independence
Awty students can choose to graduate with either this internationally recognized diploma or the French Baccalauréat.
International Baccalaureate
This IB programme is designed for students aged 11 to 16 and emphasizes concepts, global contexts, and the personal project.
Middle Years Programme
This binary number system uses only two digits, 0 and 1, and is the foundation of all computer processing.
Binary system
Which animated KIDS' movie is set for release in Theatres in February 2026?
The GOAT
This war, fought between the North and the South from 1861 to 1865, determined whether the United States would remain united.
Civil War
This is the name for this year's musical.
Grease
This DP core component requires students to reflect on how knowledge is constructed across different areas of knowledge.
Theory of Knowledge (TOK)
This fundamental data structure follows a “Last In, First Out” (LIFO) principle.
Stack
In this Pixar movie, a young clownfish named Nemo is captured, and his father travels across the ocean to find him.
Finding Nemo
This 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
Founded in 1956 by Kathleen “Kay” Awty, this was the original level of education the school offered when it first opened.
Pre-School
In the MYP, students are assessed using this type of system, where performance is measured against specific descriptors rather than against other students.
Criterion-based assessment
In object-oriented programming, this principle allows a subclass to acquire properties and methods from a parent class.
Inheritance
In this movie, a young girl named Riley experiences five personified emotions inside her mind: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust.
Inside Out
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This programme gives teachers an opportunity to share knowledge with other teachers during the inservice day.
Teachers Teach Teachers
This 4,000-word independent research paper is a required part of the Diploma Programme core.
Extended Essay
This algorithmic concept describes how the running time of an algorithm grows relative to input size and is often expressed using O-notation.
Big O notation
This 2017 animated movie set in Mexico follows a boy named Miguel who travels to the Land of the Dead to learn about his family’s musical past.
Coco
This 1930s program of economic reforms and public works projects was launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression.
New Deal
The Awty International School is fully accredited by this foreign government ministry, making it unique in Houston.
French Ministry of Education
In the MYP, this culminating project completed in Year 5 allows students to explore a personal interest and demonstrate ATL skills.
Personal Project
In databases, this normal form eliminates repeating groups and ensures that each field contains only atomic values.
First Normal Form (1NF)