Creating a Culture of Sustainability

Dear Community,

As we approach the celebration of UWC Day and the UN International Day of Peace on September 21, we want to say ¡Gracias! Your relentless support of UWC Costa Rica has helped provide access to education and nurture cultural connections, ensuring that the UWC Costa Rica mission reaches further.

Seguimos adelante, we keep moving forward, proud to welcome a new generation of students—the class of 2027 to our community:

‍‍98 students

84% supported by our Scholarship Fund—32% with full scholarships!

48 nationalities

• 28% from Latin America and the Caribbean
• 22% from Asia—-5 students from Myanmar
• 35% from Europe—1 new nationality: Luxembourg
• 8% from North America
• 7% from Africa

Thank you for believing in their potential to drive positive change and the power of transformative education! We can’t wait to see how the Classes of 2026 and 2027 will turn our values of empathy, accountability, and reciprocity, learning from nature and each other, for a lifetime. We will keep you posted through your monthly gift thank you email, and you can also see it in real-time on our website blog and social media pages: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok.

From the bottom of our hearts,
¡Muchas gracias!

Dear Community,

The end of our school year is full of significant milestones for our students. Especially those in Group 6: The Arts, who present their final projects. On April 2, IB1 theater students performed their play, IN-JUST-ICE, created and designed by the students with the guidance of their teacher, and Costa Rican actor and director, Andrés Montero. We invite you to see their work here.

Theatre is a powerful form of expressive communication that challenges students through practical inquiry, experimentation, creative risk-taking, and presenting their ideas to others. The IB theater course allows students to make theatre as creators, designers, directors, and performers. All while actively engaging in the creative process, transforming ideas into action, and working individually and collaboratively as part of an ensemble.

This is the transformative educational model you support at UWC Costa Rica. Experiential learning that starts in the classrooms and extends into all living spaces across campus and beyond. We are committed to providing an immersive experiential learning across diverse contexts and environments, including he nurturing embrace of nature. We aim to pioneer new educational and cultural paradigms to pursue a sustainable future, develop curricula and initiatives deeply rooted in a culture of sustainability, and pave the way for alternative currents of thought to shape our collective trajectory toward a more harmonious and balanced existence.

Thank you for believing in education that shapes the mind and the heart to cultivate in young people the passion and ability to serve humanity and our planet. ¡Muchas gracias!

Links:

• Watch the Class of 2026 Theater Production: IN-JUST-ICE