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Wonderful moment of Artists-in-Residence 2011

Artists-in-Residence 2011-2013 is a multi-disciplinary arts education programme which aims at enhancing the appreciation of performing arts among secondary school students in Hong Kong. In 2011, more than 60 students joined a fun-filled casting and 38 of them participated in workshops hosted by Birmingham Royal Ballet and two local artists. [...]

Providing guidance and business know-how to students

Volunteer employees at BNP Paribas will be working as mentors or ‘business coaches’ through “Rise Up”, a pilot programme designed to help students at risk of dropping out of the education system. [...]

Libraries for Moroccan schools

Building on its success at the Abderrahmane Addakhil school, the BMCI Foundation has committed to support 3 new schools in 2011. This time, it will adopt a new form of sponsorship: establishing class libraries… [...]

Romainville middle school students study water management in Vietnam

Last April, students from the Gustave Courbet (Romainville) middle school explored Vietnam as part of an Odyssée Jeunes (Youth Odyssey) programme. Interview with Laurent Bertat, their history and geography teacher. [...]

An outing to Universal Studios for the students of CARE Singapore

120 students and teachers from CARE Singapore had the opportunity to spend the day at Universal Studios, courtesy of BNP Paribas Singapore. It was a day of thrills in this larger-than-life movie-themed amusement park! [...]

The Final Stage: Artists-in-Residence Project

The 38 students involved in the Artists-in-Residence project held their final public show on 20 February at the foyer of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. [...]

Prep for Prep, an organization for equal opportunities

Prep for Prep, a non-profit organization based in New York, is a new partner of BNP Paribas in the United States. It works to diversify the nation’s leadership pool by offering New York’s most promising students of multi-ethnic backgrounds access to a private school education, and to an array of leadership development and professional opportunities.
Prep [...]

In Support of Promising Bulgarian Students

In Bulgaria, The St. Cyril and St. Methodius International Foundation exists “To build upon an intellectual capacity, securing access to the best academic centres on an international level for young and capable Bulgarians, who are needed to meet the challenges of transition, as well as for the integration of Bulgaria into Europe and the world.”

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Volunteers Turn Out to Help “Mathletes”

On Saturday, May 22, BNP Paribas North America once again sponsored the 5th annual AMS Pi5NY Math Tournament; the largest in-person math tournament in the U.S. With a turnout of over 750 students from all five of New York’s boroughs, the event was a roaring success!
The tournament, held at the Armory, one of the premier [...]