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Passport to Learning: A Global Celebration

Several hundred students and their familes enjoyed a celebration of global proportions after school on Thursday, May 5 on the Rosenberg Campus Green. Passport to Learning: A Global Celebration represented dozens of nations and showcased the heritage of the McDonogh community. The event featured games such as Majong (China) and Sapo (Peru), interactive drumming (West Africa), and Biker Shuffle line dancing (US). Participants sampled foods including samosas (India) and falafel (Middle East) as well as fruits (Haiti, Korea, Bangladesh, Mexico, Myanmar, Caribbean, Sir Lanka, Philippines), and enjoyed learning at awareness stations that focused on Asian American Pacific Islander heritage and the recent travels of a group of eight-grade students to New Orleans. 

Other activities included a scavenger hunt created in part by the sixth-grade Global Perspectives students. There was learning about the prefirst penpal exchange with students in Haryana, India, and Upper School Environmental Science student dialogues with students in Lodève, France. Additionally, students listened to a reading of a Les Aventures De Pierre Autour du Monde Francophone (The Adventures of Pierre Around the Francophone World) written and illustrated by students Ryan Bolduc ‘22, Taylor Moorehead ‘22, and Callum Bullers ‘26. 

In advance of the Global Celebration, more than a dozen Upper School students attended a virtual Global Connections Conference on Wednesday, May 4 featuring a panel of McDonogh alumni with global careers from teaching in Eleuthera, Bahamas to technology in Kigali, Rwanda.