News & Highlights

For some new international students, Bright Lights, Big City was their first BCS social event. The semi-formal dance was held in the Diamond Room of the Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team.

For the past two years Fu Lei has translated enrollment documents and phone interviews to China.

We often ask her to phone applicants and their parents in China to answer questions about the school, academics, student life and teachers.

As a thank you, Mr. Ulstein, the International Coordinator took Fu Lei and some friends to Facing East Taiwanese restaurant for lunch.

Students at Three Points Elementary Campus were recognized for fruits of the spirit. Jasmine, who entered Ms Schultz's second grade class in January, is known for her patience as she learns English as her third language. She is fluent in Japanese and Korean and is also learning a fourth language, Spanish. 

The BCS Math Team recently won first place in the state at the Math is Cool competition and 7th place overall. They are the only Division 2 team to be invited to the Master Round competition in Moses Lake on December 13.

Although BCS is a small school, the team will be advanced to Division 1 next year because of their outstanding performance.

They beat all but one private school in the State of Washington. We are very proud of their achievements.

The Team is organized by Mr. Ken Olfert, the

To prepare for Halloween we went to a pumpkin patch and corn maze. Afterwards, we carved jack'o lanterns and shared a meal.

Once a month we get together to watch movies from our students' home countries and eat great food.  This time we also celebrated the October birthdays.

After a year of studying and taking tests we like to chill out (or warm up) sailing and catching crabs.

Tien-Yi Hsieh, Taiwan 

     California college of the Arts

Yong min Jo, Korea

     University of Washington

Qizhang Li, China

     Ohio State University

Ji Hyeuk Park, Korea

     University of Washington

Tseihan Wu, Taiwan

     University of Washington

Xinyi Ye, China  

     Purdue University

Nita Aiwanakul

Math Department Award. BCS High Honor Roll

Seong Ho (Steven) Cho

Washington State math Competition, 1^st Place Topical Team Problem. Math Department Award. US Physics Team Competition Semi-Finalist. BCS Honor Roll.

Yeo (David) Choi

BCS High Honor Roll.

Grace Chung

Spanish Award.  National Honor Society. BCS High Honor Roll.

Hye-In (Tiffany) Choi

BCS Honor Roll.

Na-Rae (Sarah) Choi

National Honor Society. BCS Honor Roll.

Lei (Rosalie) Fu

National Honor Society. BCS

In October of 2009, Danny Hsieh's Photography was on display at the Bellevue Starbuck's (next door to See's on NE8th).  This is the work he completed while studying at California College of the Arts last summer.  He calls it "Inspirit" and shows the inspiration he has gained from working in the photography program at BCS  and in the creative atmosphere of CCA and San Francisco.

Artist Statement - Danny Hsieh
For years, I have been searching for things about which I am passionate.  During my

Seong Ho (Steven) Cho from BCS was one of the semi-finalists on the first US Physics Team Exam.  He made the list of the top 315 students out of about 3,200 who took the test nationally, and is the only student selected from Washington State.

This is a tryout to choose The US Physics team which will participate in an international physics competition between high-school physics teams from 80 countries all over the world.  The competition is called the Physics Olympiad.  This

Every Wednesday we get together to cook rice and...Spam. On the first Wednesday of the month the menu gets better when Mrs. Jaungsun Back and Mrs. Jungshin Nickleson bring bulgogi, terriyaki and other treats.

This is not the BCS library! Twice a year the 11th grade class goes to the University of Washington Library to conduct research. Their research papers are submitted to both the history and English classes. The UW library system is one of the largest and best in the country. The visit helps them with their BCS work and prepares them to use the university library after they graduate. Included in the photo are students are from Taiwan, Beijing and Korea.

Ann meets Korean actress Moon So-ri