Colegio
Gran Bretaña
March, 2021
At a glance
News from our Alumni
Alumni Entrepreneurship
From the Alumni Board
CGB Talent Show
From one of our teachers: Richard Coronado
Job openings
Follow us on Social Media
Working at CGB
We welcome CGB’s second generation
CGB Alumni Newsletter - March 2021
The CGB Alumni Association seeks to reinforce a sense of belonging among former students, teachers and parents, by working as a channel of communication between them and the CGB community. We want to embrace the strength of being an authentic international community, and take advantage of the opportunities this entails.
We are very happy to be a part of this great mission of uniting us all, no matter where we are in the world. As a part of this great team, we seek to learn about what you’re doing, what you’ve accomplished and what you plan to do. Please reach out to us via email alumni@cgb.edu.co and don’t forget to follow @cgbalumni on Instagram and join our Facebook Group “CGB Alumni” (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1399723890256032)
We hope to hear more of your stories and to share them with the rest of the community,
Best,
Carolina Echeverri ‘18, Maria Cecilia Cely ‘12, Andrea Cardozo ‘08 and Fiorella Rocha
(If you are interested in getting more involved with this newsletter and becoming an active representative of the alumni association please email us or Fiorella Rocha at admissions@cgb.edu.co, We also encourage you to send us feedback and ideas to help improve the CGB alumni association development.)
The CGB Alumni Association seeks to reinforce a sense of belonging among former students, teachers and parents, by working as a channel of communication between them and the CGB community. We want to embrace the strength of being an authentic international community, and take advantage of the opportunities this entails.
From the Alumni Board
Hi, my name is Angélica Maria Alvarez. I graduated CGB in 2019 and I’m studying economics at Universidad de los Andes where I’m currently in my 4th semester.
News from our Alumni
Alumni Stories
Angélica Maria Alvarez ‘19
This year, I’m an undergraduate TA for Introductory Macroeconomics and it’s been a great experience to help other students in the course and learn about how classes, activities and assessments are planned. I’ve also participated in a regional essay contest where I discussed the gender pay gap and was able to interact with students from different regions in Colombia.
Now that the vaccination has started, I’m looking forward to going back to campus soon and living the full university experience!
Nathalie Heller ‘18
Hello CGB community!
My name is Nathalie Heller and I’m an alumnus who graduated back in 2018. After high school, I moved to Montréal, Canada to complete a Bachelor of Commerce at Concordia University. I am in my final year and I am majoring in Supply Chain Operations Management. Because I wanted to get as involved as possible and leave my footprint, I work part-time in the campaigns department at my university’s student union, and I am also a member of the international business association.
At my job, I get to organize campaigns centred around a variety of paramount issues such as the Black Lives Matter movement, sustainability, migrant justice, sexual harassment, tuition hikes, amongst others. At my association, I arrange the logistical details of a handful of events, such as networking sessions, panels, workshops, social events, and case competitions, in order to help international business students get a better grasp of what their field of study is all about.
The stuff I do is extremely interesting and challenging, but in all honesty I truly miss the closeness and familiar feeling you would get while studying at CGB!
Warm regards to everyone in these tough times,
Nathalie
News from our Alumni
Alumni Stories
Luis Miguel Calle ‘14
I’ll be starting as a First Officer for a subsidiary of American Airlines while pursuing my second masters degree in finance from Harvard University! Glad to be a part of the CGB family!
Nicolas Leiva ‘12
Those who shared my time at CGB with me know that I was always (and still continue to be) passionate about RUGBY 🏉 . For those of you who didn’t know that about me, I am sure you have heard of the Alex Bjoroy 7s Rugby Tournament.
News from our Alumni
Alumni Stories
A tournament that gathered the best U-18 school rugby teams in the region for a day of healthy competition. It was during the 2011 tournament that I realized how in love with sports I was. It was an *edition full of brotherhood, rivalry and other moments that gave me the happiest memories of my teenage years. It made me understand that I would always want to be involved with sports. On the other hand, the 2012 tournament brought sadness and frustration along with it. That year I was forced to live most of the tournament from the sidelines, ruled out by a shoulder injury. The unhappiness and disappointment felt during that tournament marked me. I knew that no athlete deserved to feel that and that I would do my best to prevent it from ever happening again.
Nowadays I am enrolled at Purdue University in USA, pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. My research focuses on Sports Biomechanics and the development of Sports related Products. I spend my work days testing materials, designing products and analyzing data with the goal of ensuring a safer playing environment for all types of athletes. Some of my work has recently been published in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (link 1 below) and PLoS ONE (link 2 below). My free time is spent playing - and recently coaching - with the Purdue Mens Rugby team.
I am living a dream that was initially forged within the yellow walls of CGB and the rugby posts of “El Club Alemán”.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32060521/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240162
We want to showcase more of our alumni stories, so please send us yours or friends achievement stories so we can share them with everyone.
News from our Alumni
Alumni Stories
We welcome CGB’s Second Generation
Valentina and Marine Lacquemanne ’04
Valentina was born on December 17th 2020.
Ruan and Eldalina
Cook ’12
Ruan was born April 12th 2019
We welcome CGB’s Second Generation
Andrew, Merari and Daniel Han ‘08
Andrew was born on the 3rd of February of 2019
José Tomás and Maria Paula Gabela ‘11
Jose Tomas was born on the 9th of December of 2019
We welcome CGB’s Second Generation
Alvaro Daniel Jr., Maria Fernanda, and Alvaro Daniel Castillo ‘12.
Alvaro Daniel was born August 31st 2020
Rosalie Nora and Lizzie Parot ‘09
We welcome CGB’s Second Generation
Sol and Lina Mejía ‘12
Sol was born December 3rd 2016
We love to see how our CGB alumni family keeps growing. Please send us pictures of your newborn, wedding, graduation or any personal achievement as we want to celebrate together with you these joyous moments.
CHA CHA: Andrea Cardozo ‘08
We are a woman owned company that wanted to bring a different approach to cacao based products. Chocolates are often viewed as unhealthy treats or foods. That’s the point of view we are thriving to change. Our chocolates don’t have sugar added, we use Stevia (a natural source of sweet) to sweeten our chocolates. The benefit of Stevia is that it doesn’t raise sugar levels on your organism therefore it can be consumed by diabetics. Also our products are on the way to get certified as NON GMO and we have a Vegan certification. This all sums up to a product that has all the upsides of the nutritional benefits of cacao without the downside of all the sugar added in most products.
Alumni Entrepreneurship:
Discover all the alumni owned businesses and support them
We strongly believe in social responsibility. Our cacao comes from small producers of replacement crops where we support them with economic development to their craft and their communities. We also have a foundation called Support Women which works each and every day towards gender equality bringing education and help to young women, supporting them to accomplish whichever goals they might have.
Our products include:
Chocolate 100% CACAO
Chocolate 70% Cacao
Chocolate 70% Cacao with almonds.
Chocolate 70% Cacao with crispy rice.
@chacha.colombia
Hosie Marketing & Consulting: Vicente Hosie ‘08
I’m an architect who worked at different architecture firms and found a problem among the industry: you can have a great product or idea, but they’ll never work if you don’t know how to market them. I have spent more than 5 years in the marketing industry learning what it takes to market and sell a great idea and product and service.
Alumni Entrepreneurship:
Discover all the alumni owned businesses and support them
Having lived through 2 bankrupt architecture firms, I decided I was going to teach architects and related fields the skills needed to succeed in the marketing business to see them grow and not have to live what I lived.
My goal is to help architects and related fields develop a great marketing strategy and execute it to get more sales. �
+57 316 306 14 87
hosiemarketing@gmail.com
AF2: Andrea Cardozo ‘08
We are pleased to present you AF2. We are a Photographic Group which specializes in a variety of photographic areas. Our main goal is to help our clients represent their companies, products, goals and projects through photography. Everything is visual in contemporary life. We are constantly surrounded by images. Photography encloses a most important aspect of our lives and our projects. That’s AF2’s main vision. We are the ones responsible to represent in one image everything you want other people to know about you, your business, your product or your vision. Through photography we transmit all of these ideas and help venture your thoughts.
Alumni Entrepreneurship:
Discover all the alumni owned businesses and support them
AF2 has a wide variety of services: Product photography, architecture photography, portrait photography and equestrian photography. If it’s in your interest to have a physical copy of the image you wanted we also sell fine art print.
AF2 has a broad portfolio of photographs taken by its owners. The range of photography also varies from architecture photography to different techniques of photography. This type of images can also be acquired in fine art print for home or office décor.
@af2_photo
27A Studios: Luis Mesa ‘11 y Antonio Espinosa ‘12- Bogotá, Colombia
27A Studios is an audio recording and production studio in Bogotá, specialising both in creative work (composition, arrangement, etc.) for various media and in production, mixing and mastering for musicians of all styles.
@27Astudios
Alumni Entrepreneurship:
Discover all the alumni owned businesses and support them
Laguna Knitwear: Antonio Espinosa ‘12 y Maria Cecilia Cely ‘12- Bogotá, Colombia
Laguna Knitwear is a brand focused on creating sustainable and refined wearable pieces with 100% virgin wool, using exclusively Colombian materials and labour.
@Laguna_Knitwear
contacto@lagunaknitwear.com
ENE.EME Studio: Natalia Marulanda ‘13
Bogotá, Colombia
In ENE EME STUDIO our mission is to create design pieces with impeccable eccentricity which make our clients stand out for their unique style.
We know that small details are what really matter, this is why we give passion, determination and excellence to each piece that leaves our studio no matter how big or small it is. We are committed to making our clients fall in love with our work. We want to give life to their spaces with design objects which seem to only exist in a surrealist universe.
@ene.eme.co
Alumni Entrepreneurship:
Discover all the alumni owned businesses and support them
You Forever: Domenica Kozy ‘14- Vancouver, Canada
I graduated from CGB in 2014. Since then I went to university in Switzerland, have worked in Switzerland, Portugal and the US (New York) and Canada. I’ve started my own Event company that focuses on couples milestones here in Vancouver and it launches on Monday March 1st.
Alumni Entrepreneurship:
Discover all the alumni owned businesses and support them
You Forever is based in Vancouver, we are experts in precise planning for couples’ milestone events in any location of your choice. You Forever delivers attentive planning and joy to all the milestone events along ones' life path. Whether small, intimate and built for two or all-out extravagance, we assist our clients in arranging marriage proposals to a clients absolute dream day ceremony. We can plan an ideal anniversary or baby reveal. Any event calls for a celebration in a unique style, and You Forever ensures that our clients special occasions become forever memories.
Website: www.youforever.ca
If you have started a new business, we invite you to share it with the rest of the community. Send us a paragraph describing what it does and offers, along with your name, year of graduation, location and photo for us to publish on the next newsletter.
From one of our teachers
Siempre será grato conectarme con ustedes aunque sea por este medio, decirles que aún estoy en el CGB a punto de cumplir 17 años en esta su casa y segunda familia.
En esta foto, estoy con la primera promoción del CGB: Daniela, Andrea, Germán, María Isabel y la profesora Sandra.
Todos los alumnos que han pasado por aquí, dejaron un granito de arena y momentos especiales en mi vida, siempre los llevaré en mi corazón.
Seguramente los que tengan la oportunidad de visitar nuestro colegio siempre van a encontrar cosas diferentes pero lo que nunca va a cambiar es que siempre serán súper bienvenidos.
En el departamento de Educación física hemos aprovechado estos momentos de confinamiento y creamos un canal en youtube para seguir cerca a nuestros estudiantes, les comparto el link https://www.youtube.com/user/MrRcoronadoV para que nos sigan y de paso recuerden algunas de las actividades que hicieron en el colegio.
Les mando un abrazo gigante y por favor manténganse saludables y cuidense mucho.
Cordialmente,
Richard Coronado
The CGB Talent Show
Looking for judges that enjoy Performing Arts
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The CGB Talent Show will be held on Friday, the 30th of April.
The group of CAS students organizing it, has been brainstorming ideas to make the event more interesting for the students. This year they they are very excited with the idea of making a judges panel with alumni. If you enjoy performing arts, play an instrument, study something related to creativity, participated in a CGB Talent Show, come and give them a hand, and enjoy this great event.
If you want to participate please send a message to admissions@cgb.edu.co
Working at CGB
Did you know that the following alumni work at Colegio Gran Bretaña?
And our Alumni Reps
Job Openings
WE ARE SEEKING AN EXCELLENT KEY STAGE 2 TEACHER:
Due to a current member of staff needing to leave for personal reasons, we require a versatile, capable and enthusiastic Key Stage 2 teacher to start on 1st August 2021. Candidates with previous IPC and National Curriculum of England experience will have a distinct advantage. The salary is calculated using CGB's pay scale to ensure fair pay.
WE ARE SEEKING AN EXCELLENT SECONDARY TEACHER OF MATHEMATICS (UP TO AND INCLUDING THE IBDP) AND ECONOMICS (IBDP level):
We require a versatile, capable and enthusiastic teacher of Mathematics (up to and including the IBDP) and Economics (IBDP) to start on 1st August 2021. Candidates with previous IMYC, IGCSE experience will have a distinct advantage. Experience with IBDP Mathematics is essential. The salary is calculated using CGB's pay scale to ensure fair pay.
Jobs and opportunities
We encourage alumni and parents to send any job opportunities they might know of. Our alumni are global citizens who speak perfect english and are internationally aware. They adapt easily to changing environments and are open minded in every situation. If you know of any internship or job opportunity please do not hesitate to send them to Fiorella Rocha (admissions@cgb.edu.co)
We have a CGB Classified Ads Group on Facebook for those of you interested in Selling, Buying or Renting Second-hand items or furniture, vehicles, properties, amongst others.
We want to reiterate that it is a closed Facebook Group for our CGB community. In a closed group, administrators must approve members and only group members can see posted content.
This group will only accept CGB parents, CGB staff, and CGB alumni. If you are interested in joining please follow this link.
We also have an Instagram page, called @cgbalumni. If you’re interested in reconnecting with other alumni, seeing cool pictures that’ll take you down the memory lane or just want to stay in touch with the CGB community, follow us! We would love to feature our alumni in our instagram posts, so feel free to send us a picture of you with a caption telling us about your time at CGB, what you’re doing now and any advice or comments that you would like to add.
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We would like to publish this CGB alumni newsletter on a quarterly basis. To do that we need your participation and enthusiasm. We encourage you to send stories, personal anecdotes, and career highlights.
Let’s make the most out of this special global community!