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Switzerland, Lugano
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The campus offers state-of-the-art facilities designed to inspire learning and support academic and personal development. Modern Classrooms are equipped with interactive touchscreens, flexible seating arrangements, and digital integration with Microsoft tools. The STEAM Center houses a robotics lab, a makerspace, and fully equipped science laboratories. The Microsoft Dream Space is Switzerland's first Microsoft Showcase School, enabling hands-on learning with AI, VR, and coding projects. Arts and Performance Spaces include Visual Arts Studios, a professional Performing Arts Theater, and Music Rooms.
Sports areas are available on campus.
Modern Classrooms are equipped with interactive touchscreens, flexible seating, and digital integration with Microsoft tools. The STEAM Center includes a Robotics Lab, a Makerspace, and Science Laboratories. The Microsoft Dream Space supports hands-on learning with the latest software and hardware and opportunities to explore artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and coding projects. Arts and Performing Spaces include Visual Arts Studios, a Performing Arts Theater, and Music Rooms.
Discovery Program offers a diverse after-school range of options across sports, arts, languages, and clubs such as debating, robotics, and AI, with activities scheduled on school days after classes. The majority of these programs are included in the enrollment fee, with some specialist programs requiring additional costs. Masterclasses provide expert-led sessions across disciplines for Grades 6–12, offered during school hours and after-school through the Discovery Program, with hands-on activities and opportunities to network with mentors. The Immersion Program delivers cultural excursions, outdoor expeditions, industry visits, and a variety of masterclasses, camps, and workshops that connect learning to real-world contexts. Competitions are part of the co-curricular program, and ski and summer camps are offered as connected experiences to learning.
The International School of Switzerland is a day school for students aged 6–18 that offers the IB Middle Years Programme, the IB Diploma Programme, and Cambridge A Levels. It operates as an IB World School guided by the K.I.N.D. framework—Kindness, Innovation, Navigation, and Discovery—to shape both academics and co‑curricular life. Instruction is in English, with Italian and German taught at varying levels and CEFR‑based placement. From Grade 10, students can pursue a dual pathway to Advanced Levels or the IB Diploma Programme; the IB Diploma Programme is currently a Candidate School, and the Bridge Program supports language fluency and transitions to IB, A‑Levels, or Liceo. Facilities include modern classrooms with interactive touchscreens and Microsoft tools, a STEAM Center with robotics labs and a makerspace, and Switzerland's first Microsoft Dream Space for AI, VR, and coding projects. Arts spaces include Visual Arts Studios, a professional Performing Arts Theater, and Music Rooms, with on‑campus sports facilities. Co‑curriculars feature the Discovery Program, Masterclasses, and the Immersion Program, which offer diverse activities, masterclasses, cultural excursions, and industry visits.
