The LRC-September 1st to 15th 2026

The LRC a Spotlight on Clubs

The Cooking and Sewing clubs have really taken off this Semester. 

Cooking students are learning to make a variety of dishes to share with family and friends in our LRC Cooking centre 

Sewing Club students have been working hard on their felt dolls which will be donated to children at the Bloom hospital for  Christmas time.

Independent Reading

We have begun our in-class support of independent reading through Spanish lessons. During these regular lessons the librarians work with students through a variety of fun activities all of which are  focused on engaging students in the joy of reading. 

Please do check out our short video clips on the LRC Youtube channel to learn more about these initiatives and more.

WRO National Olympiad El Salvador 2025

Celebrating Innovation and Teamwork at the WRO® National Olympiad El Salvador 2025

The World Robot Olympiad™- WRO® is more than just a competition—it is a celebration of diversity, teamwork, passion, innovation, and empowerment. These five core values inspire young minds to go beyond the classroom, embrace creativity, and work together to solve complex challenges through robotics and technology. This global event unites thousands of students worldwide, giving them the chance to apply their knowledge in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in an exciting and meaningful way.

On August 30th, Academia Británica Cuscatleca proudly hosted the WRO® National Olympiad El Salvador 2025, bringing together an extraordinary group of young innovators. The event welcomed 138 teams from both public and private schools across the country, with close to 400 students participating. Competitors engaged in four distinct categories: RoboMission, where teams design and program robots to tackle field challenges; RoboSports, a thrilling double tennis robotics competition; Future Innovators, which focuses on creating robotics projects to solve real-world problems; and Future Engineers, an advanced category inspired by current research trends: the autonomous vehicle.

Thanks to the impressive turnout, El Salvador secured eight qualification spots for the WRO® International Final in Singapore, to be held from November 26 to 28, 2025. These include three spots in RoboMission (elementary, junior, and senior), three in Future Innovators (elementary, junior, and senior), one in RoboSports, and one in Future Engineers. Each of these categories highlights the incredible talent and dedication of our youth, showcasing their potential to compete on a truly global stage.

This year’s competition demonstrated outstanding performances across all categories: 

RoboMission Elementary 

1st place: Alphabot from Game Changer.

2nd place: Los Iguanos from Game Changer.

3rd place: Geometrical Dominators from Game Changer.

RoboMission Junior

1st place: Skibidi Titans from Game Changer.

2nd place: MPC from Academia Británica Cuscatleca, Santa Tecla.

3rd place: Las Chicas Superpoderosas from Game Changer.

RoboMission Senior

1st place: Kaiser Bots from Game Changer.

2nd place: My Little Pony from Game Changer.

3rd place: CR7 from Game Changer.

RoboSports

1st place: Automovilístico from Highlands International School San Salvador.

2nd place: RS3 from Highlands International School San Salvador.

3rd place: JRobótica from Centro Escolar las Dispensas, San José Villanueva.

Future Innovators Elementary 

1st place: Galactic Voyager from Highlands International School, San Salvador.

2nd place: Beach Fighters from Academia Británica Cuscatleca, San Salvador.

3rd place: Heart Beat Team, from Steam Robotics Academy.

Future Innovators Junior

1st place: IE Team, from Academia Británica Cuscatleca, Santa Tecla.

2nd place: Cuscatlán Eco Builders, from Highlands International School, San Salvador.

3rd place: Cardio Vibes, from Steam Robotics Academy.

Future Innovators Senior

1st place: Maqui Agrocoffe, from Escuela Bilingüe Maquilishuat, San Salvador.

2nd place: Tensocracks, from Highlands International School, San Salvador.

3rd place: Ocean, from Steam Robotics Academy, San Salvador.

Future Engineers

1st place: Future TO, from Game Changer. 

2nd place: Technogirls, from ID Maker.

3rd place: The Pythoneers from Highlands International School, San Salvador.

The WRO® National Olympiad El Salvador 2025 was not only a showcase of skill and determination but also a reminder of how education and innovation can transform the future of our country. By fostering collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving, this event empowers students to dream big and lead with confidence. We wish the winning teams the best of luck as they prepare to represent El Salvador in the WRO® International Final and continue proving that effort leads to success.

Sweet Celebrations in the LRC: Cookie Fun for 4th & 5th Grade! 🍪

Over the past two weeks, the LRC  cooking area has turned into a joyful, flour-dusted hub of creativity and celebration as our 4th and 5th grade students visited on separate days for a very special treat — cookie baking! 

This hands-on activity was a well-earned reward from our wonderful primary librarians, recognizing the students’ efforts, enthusiasm and great behaviour throughout the year.

The kids, led by Miss Gaby and members of the LRC, scrubbed their hands and took their places at our rolling maker trollies, which were temporarily repositioned in the cooking area. Rolling Trollies are such useful additions to any makerspace.  The kids got a tad messy as they dove hands-first into cooking dough prep, and they loved every moment of it. 

 From mixing the dough to adding their favourite toppings, every step was filled with laughter and teamwork. 

Of course, the best part was enjoying the warm, delicious cookies they made with their own hands!It was a fantastic way to wrap up a year of learning, reading, and growing together. 

A huge thanks goes out to the LRC and Jubilee teams for organizing such a memorable event.

📸 Want to see more smiles and sprinkles? 

Click here to view our Flickr gallery of the cookie-baking fun!

Celebrating Student Creativity: Highlights from the 15th Annual ABC DVA 2025!

The screens lit up and the creativity flowed on Thursday, 29th, 2025, as ABC School proudly hosted our 15th annual Digital Video Awards (DVA)! This milestone event is a cornerstone of our school calendar, dedicated to celebrating and spotlighting the incredible excellence in student digital video work from across our primary and secondary schools.

For fifteen years, the DVA has provided a platform for our talented students to showcase their skills in filmmaking, animation, storytelling, and technical production. This year was no exception, with students from both primary and secondary levels submitting an impressive array of projects.

The competition was fierce as students vied for recognition in a wide range of categories, including:

• Best Animation

• Best English/Design IDU

• Best Advertisement

• Best Short Film

• Best Documentary

• Best Minecraft Walkthrough

• Best Director

• Movie of the Year

The DVA committee would like to extend our sincerest congratulations to all of the students who were nominated for an award this year. The standard of entries was incredibly high, and simply making it onto the nomination list is a testament to your hard work, creativity, and skill. Everyone who was nominated is truly a winner!

The top prizes for many categories were decided by enthusiastic voting from the ABC community, highlighting the videos that resonated most with our audience.

Two special awards, however, were the final picks of the ABC Committee: the VHS Best Director Award—named in honour of Victor Hugo Salazar, an outstanding ex-student and director—celebrating exceptional directorial vision, and the award for Best Minecraft Walkthrough, recognizing creative and engaging gameplay footage.

Congratulations again to all the nominated students and to the talented winners who took home the top honours! Your dedication to crafting compelling digital stories is inspiring

The 15th Annual ABC DVA was a fantastic celebration of student talent and creativity. We are immensely proud of all the participants and look forward to seeing the amazing digital video projects our students will create next year for the 16th DVA!

A big thank you goes out to Profe Alvin Silva for being such a wonderful MC and Profe Rodrigo Alfaro for producing the show.

Please take a moment to view the images from the event.

 

Back Post-STEAM Fest 2025

 Now that our blog has been reinstated, we would like to take a moment to travel back to February when we celebrated STEAM Fest 2025.

This celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths was a huge success once again.  

We were honoured to share the celebration with many other internal as well as external members of the community, some of who joined us from Highlands, Maquilishuat, and AmunShea schools in addition to special guests from Game Changer and Creativo 3d. We also had quite a few judges join us on the day; some were ABC teachers, and others were external professionals working in the area of STEAM.

67 school teams of up to 6 students each took part on the day but also spent several months in advance researching and developing their projects. Of those teams, 112 ABC secondary school students took part.

Mateo Guzman, from 10th grade, designed a fantastic. official logo for this year's STEAM Fest and was honoured during the event for his work as a graphic artist. 

1st place for the best STEAM Fest project overall was awarded to Julián Betancourt Rivas and Juan Ángel Valiente Castillo for their Landslide Susceptibility project, in which they developed an AI system to analyze different sets of data which could be visualized as a map presenting the susceptibility of land in El Salvador to landslides.

During STEAM Fest 2025, we had the opportunity to run another exciting hackathon in which the Maquilisuat, Highlands and ABC took place. 

The Hackathon was won by ABC Students: Arthur Falkenstein, Howard Tianji, Fabioloa Echeverria and Javier Huezo. They were followed closely by the Maquilisuat in 2nd place and Highlands in 3rd place.  A big well done to all the teams that worked so arduously to solve the problem that was presented in the given time. 

While all the thank yous went out in February when the event took place, the STEAM Team would again like to thank all involved, including the LRC, Design, Science and Maintenance teams for all the hard work they put in, in making this event a huge success once again.

Thank You!

The Blog is Back-ABC Book Week Edition!

The LRC blog is back after a short hiatus, and we want to start off by sharing all the exciting activities that took place during our Whole School Book Week!

by Jennifer Garcia LRC Coordinator

Preparations for Book Week 2025 began in November of 2024. These were led by the whole school Book Week Committee, composed of teachers and librarians from both primary and secondary schools. This committee set out to build on the successes of Book Week 2024 and, in doing so, found ways to increase its reach across the school through a multitude of activities and events. 

Some of the many highlights of this event were the visits by Silvia Pira, the author of Crush, who spoke to the 6th-grade students, and Alberto Pocasangre, the author of Nahual Blanco, who spoke to the 7th-grade students. 

The 11th grade had the opportunity to meet with  Alex Hernandez, a Royal Academia author and Manlio Argueta, author of UN DÍA EN LA VIDA, which the 11s are currently reading in Spanish lessons. This powerful event was followed up by a cocktail for all involved.

The 9th grade students had the opportunity to meet with Roger Lindo, who is the author of  EL PERRO EN LA NIEBLA, and grade 8th got to learn more about theatre in El Salvador through a presentation by Roberto Salomon (Teatro Poma)- "TEATRO EN EL SALVADOR: UNA MIRADA HISTÓRICA".

The ABC Arts Department hosted the PLAY "LA PERRERA" by the Rosa Mosqueta theatre group for the 6th grade students, with a few grade 7 and 8 Arts faculty students mixed in.

This year's Book Fair was a great success, with a record number of vendors, students and parents in attendance in the PAC. 

A great variety of high-quality books were offered by the many different vendors. Even the ABC had a book stand, which focused on selling the anthologies of short stories written by our wonderful ABC Students.  

• Tales on the Road: Stories that Surprise for 7-10 Year Olds. 
• Paper Chrysalides: Stories that Soar for 11-14 Year Olds.

Do please contact Mario Villalobos in the primary library or Judith Mendez in the LRC if you are interested in purchasing a copy.

A special thanks goes out to the wonderful book vendors who spent most of the week at the ABC: The LRC and Jubilee Libraries, Steps, Grelisal and AEIOU, Frikiland, Lovaimex, Clasicos Roxsil, Liliana Marti, Expresso Bibliografiico, Editorial El Salvador, Chicos y Imagen, Distribuidora Educativa Yanira Sounds, Tia Li, Internacional Libros y Regalos, La Ceiba.

The LRC ran two competitions during the week: the LRC Digital Book Competition and the Guess What the Teachers Are Reading Competition.

A special shout-out goes to Isabel Urias for winning the Book Week 2025 Logo competition for her creative vision in producing a logo that really encapsulated this year's Motto, From Reader to Character, Read your Way.

On Friday, we saw the return of the Dress Up as Your Favourite Character day, with a special spin on Heroes! 

We would like to take this opportunity to say a special thanks to everyone involved in making this year's Book Week a great success.  This would not have been possible without the hard work in preparing and running the event by the school libraries, maintenance teams and teaching staff.  

While everyone's efforts are greatly appreciated, a special thanks goes out to Mrs. Judith de Mendez (LRC Head Librarian), Mr, Mario Villalobos (Jubilee Librarian), Mrs, Monica Urbina (Sec. Head of Spanish) and Mrs. Edda Padilla (Primary Language Coordinator) for the many extra hours put in on planning for success and achieving with magnificence. 

WRO El Salvador 2024!

Last Saturday the  2024 Salvadoran National Robotics Olympiad, part of the World Robot Olympiad (WRO), took place at the Academia Británica Cuscatleca. The theme for this year was Earth Allies.

Video Source: World Robotic Olympiad

This event was the largest WRO competition El Salvador has seen, featuring over 100 teams of students from various schools nationwide. Events like WRO empower students to showcase their creativity, innovation, teamwork, and technical skills.  Students who took part showcased their solutions to local and global issues through robot construction, programming design, and scientific proposals, demonstrating the potential of Salvadoran youth in STEM fields.

The competition was divided into three main categories: Robo Mission, Future Innovators, and Future Engineers and further subcategories based on age. 

Seven teams emerge victorious, earning the right to represent El Salvador in the WRO international finals in Turkey. Of these two are ABC Robotics teams. Please refer to the images below. 

Image Source:https://www.facebook.com/wroelsalvador/?locale=es_LA

Please go to our Flickr Album to view more images of the day.