Education
of the 21st Century
HCAS is an independent, college preparatory, co-educational, US curriculum, day school in Zhubei City, Taiwan for Pre-K through grade 12 on one campus.
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A school that
focuses on educating
the whole person!
Hsinchu County American School - HCAS 新竹縣康乃薾美國學校 is feeling honored.
🏅 HCAS Senior Earns National Recognition! 🏅 HCAS 高年級生榮獲國家級榮譽！ Another HCAS student has gained national recognition for excellence! Grade 12 student Xin was invited to the Presidential Palace in Taipei on the morning of January 22 to receive the International Young Inventor Award. This event has capped a remarkable high school career for Xin. His 5 successful patents in Taiwan have amazingly built a 5-year record of 22 Gold Medals in International Invention Exhibitions and 2 National Gold Medals! Xin’s incredible record of achievement has been built upon innovative inventions, product design, and applied engineering, integrating knowledge in mechanical design,
Hsinchu County American School - HCAS 新竹縣康乃薾美國學校 is feeling cool.
💻🌍 Competitive Coding Outreach in Action! 🌍💻 💻🌍 競技程式設計推廣活動正式展開! 🌍💻 The HCAS Competitive Coding Lab recently partnered with Chiayi County Shui Shang Junior High School to conduct a hands-on outreach program for middle school bilingual students, promoting both coding skills and the use of English as a medium of communication. Our Coding Lab members led interactive sessions introducing Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Gemini, guiding students through real-world applications of AI. Students even had the opportunity to create their own customized ChatGPT, each with a unique personality and creative flair. We were thrilled to work with 18
Hsinchu County American School - HCAS 新竹縣康乃薾美國學校 is feeling cool.
🔧🎡 Cross-Grade Learning: Exploring Pulleys from Kindergarten to High School! 跨年級學習：從幼兒園到高中的滑輪探索！ 🎓✨ As part of their theme “How Things Work,” the K3 students have been learning about force and motion. While Kindergarten students are beginning to explore how simple machines make work easier by lifting or moving objects, our high school physics students study pulleys at a deeper level to solve complex problems, measure forces, and calculate mechanical advantage. To help demonstrate how pulleys work, the physics students invited the kindergarten class to visit the physics lab. The HS students shared the different parts of a pulley system, introduced a
Hsinchu County American School - HCAS 新竹縣康乃薾美國學校 is feeling fantastic.
🌟🎓CATES Student Leadership Conference (January 17~19) 🎓🌟 HCAS 學生領導力大放異彩！ Over 30 HCAS MUS students spent a full day on Saturday investigating, exploring and participating in a variety of student leadership workshops as part of The Council of Administrators of Taiwan Expatriate Schools (CATES) 2nd Annual Student Leadership Conference! We had four groups of students hosting the slate of nine workshops at the conference, and three of the five award-winning Shark Tank teams consisted of at least one HCAS team member. We're incredibly proud of our student leaders showing up to represent a third of all participants in the conference and
Our Community in Numbers
- 6 year WASC accreditation
- 295 students
- 46 teachers
- 13 Pre-AP courses
- 23 AP courses
- 46 top-100 university acceptances
HCAS is proud to be awarded full accreditation status by the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges! We will continue reflecting and making improvements that meet the needs of our students and staff, as we strive to provide world-class education for our students. As it is not easy to obtain a six-year accreditation, this Lion Pride certainly celebrates the joint efforts of our staff and school community through this process.
