The MIS Athletics community rose to the occasion for the biggest sporting weekend of the 2023-24 school year.
News/Media
Welcome to the News section. You may want to check out our recently launched Blog tab below in which you will find inspiring content written mainly by members of our Senior Leadership Team. We hope you enjoy!
Latest News
These MIS 10th-graders established a student-to-doctor matchmaking organization called Salus Vitae.
MIS achieves full re-accreditation with Council of International Schools (CIS) and New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC)
Wish our Ski Team luck at the Heinrich Harrer Cup, a 3-Day race traditionally hosted by MIS in honor of Heinrich Harrer.
Malaika is currently a finalist in the very popular German casting show Dein Song. On March 15, she will perform her latest song, "You Don't Know Me" live on TV channel KiKA, together with German pop star Kamrad.
MIS student Mathletes traveled to The Hague and Vienna to compete with hundreds of other students in ISMTF tournaments.
“Having your home language in your brain makes you, you. Speaking my home language allows me to bring myself back home”.
Press & Media
MIS in the Headlines
2023
22 April 2023: Munich International School: KZ Überlebender schildert sein Schicksal (Merkur)
2022
20 November 2022: Harry Hammer und Nicki Nagel (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
2021
24 October 2021: Munich International School in Starnberg: Rohbau der Turnhalle fertig – auch dank Spenden in Millionenhöhe (Merkur) 18 October 2021: Hoch hinaus (Süddeutsche Zeitung)18 August 2021: Luftfilter ohne Filter: Privatschule in Starnberg setzt auf besondere Technologie (Merkur)
2020
27 November 2020: Halle für Sport und Schulgemeinschaft: Platz für bis zu 1800 Menschen (Merkur)27 November 2020: Munich International School baut die größte Sporthalle im Landkreis (Süddeutsche Zeitung) 30 September 2020: Raten für die Umwelt – Indra Deshmukh (Süddeutsche Zeitung)29 September 2020: Ich habe Sorge, dass unser großer Moment vorbei ist – Felix Finkbeiner über den Klimaschutz (Süddeutsche Zeitung) 28 August 2020: Freud und Leid unter der Maske – Schulstart an der MIS… (Merkur) 27 August 2020: Maske rauf, Maske runter (Süddeutsche Zeitung)26 August 2020: Umweltwissen jenseits der Schulbücher – Indra Deshmukh erhält Student Innovator Award (Merkur)
2019
21 November 2019: Unternehmen gegen Klimawandel – Vorreiter der Nachhaltigkeit 20 November 2019: Starnberg: Munich International School baut mit FAGSI eine Interims-Bibliothek 19 November 2019: Munich International School Vorbild in Sachen KlimaschutzNovember/December 2019: Schüler aus 65 Nationen, Lehrer aus 27 Ländern31 May 2019: Schule will 7,5 Millionen Euro Spenden sammeln11 April 2019: MIS Switches to Renewable Energy
2018
11 December 2018: MIS Student Anna Pertl Receives Order of Merit 23 April 2018: Ein Masterplan für die Munich International School (Merkur)20 July 2017: Jugend-Klimagipfel in Starnberg (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
2013-2017
23 November 2015: Bildung hat ihren Preis (Süddeutsche Zeitung)25 September 2015: Timothy Thomas ist neuer Direktor der Munich International School auf Gut Buchhof (Süddeutsche Zeitung)14 June 2015: MIS weiht Neubau ein (Merkur)25 June 2013: Spatenstich für 29 neue Schulräume (Merkur)
Press Releases
12 December 2017: MIS Named Apple Distinguished School5 December 2017: MIS Student Tanvi Padhye Establishes Interact Club17 November 2017: MIS Receives Environmental Award20 September 2017: Perfect Scores for two Munich International Students20 July 2017: Youth Climate Summit wird von Schüler der Munich International School veranstaltet26 February 2016: MIS 50th Anniversary Association Meeting4 August 2015: Perfect scores for two Munich International School students17 June 2015: Opening of new teaching and learning building at Munich International School21 May 2014: Opening of new Athletics Track at annual Frühlingsfest
Press Contact
Please direct all press and media enquiries to:
Helena Stephan
Advancement Office
+49 (0) 8151 366 156
marketing@mis-munich.de
Podcast
At Munich International School (MIS), we created a media studio to enable students to create podcasts, video presentations, and other forms of audio and video media communication. Our students had indicated that this was an area of interest for them, and we were thrilled to be able to create a space with the right tools and with some experienced media producers who were already working on our staff. But to get the students started, we wanted to model for them how a podcast works. So we picked a current development on our campus (a new physical and health education facility that students helped to design) and built an initial podcast around it. In the short podcast episodes, we speak with educators, students, and other community members… (Read more)
Blog
The Heinrich Harrer Cup is an annual International School ski race, dedicated to the memory of Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer and explorer…
Meet Lisa, who plans on becoming an actress and director. Her hope is to inspire joy in her community and help people explore complex emotions through the stories she conveys…
There’s a vision behind our new campaign…
How about a school that prepares its students and also its campus for the future?
At MIS, we seek to offer teaching and learning that is more individual and personalised, that includes powerfully diverse and fit-for-purpose forms of collaboration, that enables greater teacher flexibility and that engages students in prototyping, creating and making.
Good news! So far, our construction project “Fitness & Athletics Building” (FAB) at MIS has been running smoothly. Winter has passed without major delays and some critical phases have been successfully completed. The project is also blessed by the formal approval of the City of Starnberg. The excavation work is now almost completed and we have poured the first concrete for the robust foundation of the new quadruple sports hall…