​​Upcoming TCGIS Community Events

Alumni Picnic
​August 8, 2023 | 5-8PM
Save the date! We will have our Alumni Picnic once again at the Germanic American Institute (GAI) on Tuesday, August 8th. Like the last picnic, you can expect tables set up outside on the GAI grounds and a good time socializing with other alumni students and parents.

We will especially recognize our 5- and 10-year alumni! Like our last Alumni Picnic, this year's picnic will be a potluck! Please bring a dish or dessert to share. As part of the TCGIS zero-waste initiative, we encourage you to bring your own reusable plate and cutlery. Please email Silke Moeller with any questions.
​Share Your Story!
If you are a TCGIS alum and would like to be featured in an upcoming Alumni Newsletter, please fill out this form.

Past Alumni Newsletters:
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We recently talked with alumna Tia Ruh, class of 2014. Read an excerpt below, and the full interview here. 

How do you feel your time at TCGIS helped prepare you to get to where you are today?
"Growing up with German and within the TCGIS environment is an experience unparalleled in value for students who truly seek to become bilingual. Even when circumstances forced our family to take a leave from my TCGIS education, the foundational language skills I had learned from kindergarten through fourth grade proved to be retained well enough that I could jump right back into learning even after 3 years with minimal German exposure. There was no German program at my high school, but the positive attitude surrounding language learning fostered by TCGIS drove me to try learning Spanish, which I took for 4 years. It wasn't until my junior year of college that I found myself missing German so much that I changed my major to German Studies- and even with a 6 year hiatus from regular practice, I was able to communicate at a college level and test out of years of language credits, which even helped me graduate early. I attribute that language fluency and passion to my early start at TCGIS, and the way in which I learned German there."

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