I’ve always thought that CAS should remind students that there is a world outside of the exams and grades. He was just doing what he liked to do: play video games.īecause, shouldn’t that be the point of CAS? Shouldn’t CAS remind us that we have lives outside of the IB program, and all its coursework, tests, essays, IAs, and everything else we do just to get a diploma.

But, he wasn’t doing anything revelational. He had become a mentor of sorts, training new recruits to play the game and to work as a team. He had been a part of this clan before he joined the IB, but when it came time for DP my brother had taken a leadership role.

My brother was in a video gaming clan, a community of people who regularly play one or more video games together. (Although he has done that, but it happened after his graduation, which sadly doesn’t count for CAS.) He just played them, because he enjoyed it. He didn’t play videogames to raise awareness or money for a cause. In 2015, one of his main CAS activities was playing video games. But of course, everyone is joking.īut my brother wasn’t. They’re even uttered at absurd moments, like when a friend needs to borrow a pen. Every time a teacher announces the need for volunteers, for anything, those words somehow make their way into the atmosphere. “Does it count for CAS?” Oh yes, we’ve all heard those words before. In this weeks blog post, Arina, a IBDP student from Helsinki, gives her opinion on CAS and how it can be one of the best parts of the DP program.

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