Club Information
GIN holds its weekly regular meetings on this day of the week.
What is Friday?
This once-every-four-years international soccer tournament features 48 competing nations co-hosted across North America in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is the FIFA World Cup?
To travel legally to another country, you need to show this official government booklet at airport border control.
What is a passport?
Adopted by world leaders at the United Nations in 2015, there are this exact total number of Sustainable Development Goals on the official UN grid.
What is 17?
The three letters in our club's name, GIN, stand for this three-word organization.
What is the Global Issues Network?
To stay an active member and keep up with all project planning, members are expected to maintain this habit for every Friday meeting.
What is regular attendance (or attending every meeting)?
To slow down climate change and cut carbon emissions, the European Union passed landmark legislation banning imports of products linked to this process—the clearing or burning of major rainforests.
What is deforestation?
When two countries agree to trade goods with each other without charging extra taxes or tariffs on imports, it is called "Free ________."
SDG #1 aims to eradicate this global issue in all its forms everywhere, ensuring everyone has access to basic necessities like food, shelter, and water.
What is Poverty (or No Poverty)?
On our club trip to Nepal, we visited this capital city, known for its rich culture, historic temples, and bustling streets in the Kathmandu Valley.
What is Kathmandu?
Instead of after school, our weekly GIN meetings take place during this designated block of the school schedule.
What is Activity Period?
When a government places extra import taxes on goods entering from another nation, it often leads to this two-word economic conflict between trading partners.
What is a trade war (or tariffs)?
Located inside another country, this official building serves as the headquarters for a nation's foreign ambassadors and diplomats.
What is an embassy?
Supporting girls' education, like our club's trip to the Moonlight School in Nepal, directly connects to SDG #4, which calls for Inclusive and Equitable "Quality ________."
What is Education?
When SIS GIN plans a project, we don't just do a one-time donation; we aim for this key value so that our impact keeps going even after seniors graduate.
What is sustainability?
This is our official classroom room number where GIN meets every Friday.
Over the past few years, world leaders and tech companies have been debating safety rules and copyright laws surrounding this booming technology used to generate text, art, and video.
What is Artificial Intelligence (or AI/ChatGPT)?
When countries want to help each other during wartime or defend each other from threats, they form a formal agreement known as a military ________.
This is the target year set by the United Nations for all countries to achieve all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
What is 2030?
During our service trip to Nepal, our GIN club visited and supported this specific school, which provides free, quality education to underprivileged children.
What is the Moonlight School?
If members are able, they are strongly encouraged to join these major out-of-country travel experiences (like our past service trip to Nepal!).
What are international trips?
This famous American YouTuber went viral globally after launching massive campaigns like #TeamTrees and #TeamSeas to plant 20 million trees and remove 30 million pounds of ocean trash.
Who is Mr. Beast?
When two or more nations sign a formal, legally binding peace agreement or pact, that written contract is officially known as a ________.
What is a treaty?
Represented by a dark blue icon showing a fish, SDG #14 focuses on protecting marine ecosystems and is officially titled "Life ________ Water."
What is Below (Life Below Water)?
Aside from local projects, SIS GIN members get the chance to participate in this annual event in collaboration with GIN chapters in other international schools.
What are conferences?