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Pan American College, Viña del Mar
Pan American College is a subzided school located in Viña del Mar, Chile. It was founded in 1960 by co-founders Mr. Hector Soazo and Madam Nelda Rojas de Soazo.

The school began as a private school with a small amount of students. In 2002 it changed its modality into a subzided school. To this date, more than twenty generations have graduated from this school.

History
Pan American College was founded in 1960 by the married couple Hector Soazo Koder and Nelda Rojas de Soazo. In 1962 the ministry public education for the law Nº 15.402, pan american college awards to it's recognition as a funtion cooperative state education. In 1969 exit he first gereration of the school, that was a important milestone in the pan american history. At the date, has been graduate 26 gerenations, 1060 students.

In 2002 Pan American College incorporated in its system the full school day,motivated by the Ministry of Education.

In 2003 Pan American adopted the modality of financing share, and change its name to "Colegio Pan American".

In 2005 Start a institutional diagnosis, with the finality to obtain a quality seal of the Chile fundation

Subjets of Elementary School
From 1st grade to 3th grade

- Art - Languages - Music - PE: Physical Education - Technology Education - Religion

From 4th grade to 8th grade

- Art - Geography - History - Languages - Music - Sciences - PE: Physical Education - Technology Education - Religion

Subjets of High School
- Maths

- English

- History

- PE: physical education

- Physics

- Biology

- Chemestry

- Art or Music

- Lenguage - Literature

- philosophy

- religion

Learning environment
The learnig environment of my school is very interesting because it is a small college. The students can meet other students and feel well in the school with their friends and teachers.

The space in the school is small and most of the clases are too, but is better then having too much students because the attention the teachers have with the students is more personal and better.

Admision
The admision envolves 3 test. the tests are math, spanish and english.the students that pass these tests can enroll as new students of the school. the admision start in the end of the year for the next year and never close the admision.

Other requirements of the school are the academic transcript of the previous school and interviews with the director.

Extracurricular Activities
At Pan American College we can find diferent extracurricular activities. such as football,basketball,gymnastic,swimming,musical instruments and choir.

football

In football Pan American College make tournaments whit different school of viña del mar them usually win. they train wednesday and friday one hour and a half, his trainer is ricardo fagestrom. in this extracurricular activity students from firt grade participate to four grade.

basketball

In basketball Pn American College make tournaments whit different school of viña del mar. they train wednesday and thursday one hou and a half, his trainer is Aldo. Basketball has two differnt levels one is from elementary school from first grade to eight grade and the other levels is from high school.

gymnastics

This extracurricular activity is for girls from first grade to eight grade of elementary. they train monday one hour and a half his trainer is cecilia.

Swimming Class

This class is given in the swimming pool belongs to “colegio aleman” and the teachers in charge are Dagny Fagerström and Cecilia Vivallo. The only requirement for this class is be able to float and the students can go since first grade. The class last two hours approximately and it realized every Saturday. The swimming class is very secure for all the students and beneficial for their health

Instrumental Music

This class is given in the music classroom in our school. The teacher in charge is Rosa Jofre and she teaches our students to play piano, guitar and violin and the only requirement for this fabulous class is to be energetic. Every afternoon this class it’s realized. Como to this class, we are waiting for you.

Choir.

This class is given also in the music classroom in our school. The teacher in charge is Andres Valdebenito, for this very moment the school only got choir for men and they participated in many events. The only requirement for this class is got a nice voice and a lot of personality

Facilities
Computer classrooms

It is a space where students can access Internet and there they can explore. They also look the word with other eyes. There are two classrooms. One for elementary students and one for high school students. The computer room consist on 21 computers and 7 of them are the ultimate technology. on the first floor there is a computer classroom for elementary students, where are 20 computers.

Houses

There are three houses. In the first house there are the music room, the casino and the library .in the other house there are the 4ºgrade elementary classroom, the computer room and the philosophy teacher’s room. In the last house there are prekinder, kinder, 1º elementary. In the second floor are the offices of the director and the owners.

Building:

In the building are 11 classrooms also in the first floor are the bathrooms and the inspectors room

Class Rooms

The college has almost 20 classrooms for the different grades, and 5 of them are for special subjects (music, English, computation)

Music Classroom

The music room is located in the first house that the college has, it have a German study piano, 4 classic guitars, almost 10 flutes of different range

Students
Tradition School´s aniversary party -In 1962 the minister of education, gives the title pan american college college of the state.

On this date and from the 1st year of existence the school begins with a tradition of celebration in recognition of this, and every year the anniversary of the school is celebrated., this year (2010) the school celebrates 50 years of life.there will be parties and entertainment not only to school members and students. on august 13th there will be recreational activities all day with games and lots of entertainment the students and teachers.

Nelda Rojas `s mass -Every years our college make a mass to remember the anniversary of the death of our fouder Nelda Rojas. -In this mass the college brings a priest and orfanize the mass in the court on the college wih the students, teachers and proxies invited to the ceremony. In the mass all student must have their complete uniform. And later all the teachers go to the church in Chorrilos.

National holiday -This day the college celebrate with a show of the music department, dance and sing all music of our country. In this day all the grades have a work somes spend food, make games ,etc and this day don`t have class in all day.

Tradition White dress and graduation fourth grade - One of the most important tradition is to wear a white dress for the high school graduation. This tradition has been imposed generation to generation for 50 years - All generation of the student since1970 have used this white dress that is one of the most important tradition that has our school.

Liturgical celebration - This celebration is very important because the school is religious. Easter is the christian annual conmemoration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. There is a mass in the college.

Study tour - The study tour is a tradition  that is done in third grade of high school. This tour is on Summer vacation and students choose where to go. they are accompanied by the head teacher and teachers who want to go.