Upcoming Events:

• IMPORTANT: Submit your Parent University Interests/Preferences by Sunday, January 4
• BCIC Open Board Meeting with former BCIC board members (registration required)
  • Tuesday, January 13 at 6:30 pm
  • Barrington Area Library
• BCIC 3rd-5th Grade Games (registration required)
  
  • Saturday, January 24 from 9:30-11:30 am
  • Barrington Area Library
• D220 Kindergarten Round Up
  • Monday, February 2 at 6 pm
  • At your home elementary school
• IMPORTANT: D220 Chinese Immersion Kindergarten Round Up; Encourage kindergarten friends to join & attend!
  • Wednesday, February 4 at 6 pm
  • North Barrington Elementary 
• D220 Parent University for Chinese Immersion
  • (Tentatively scheduled for) Wednesday, February 11 from 6-8 pm
  • Rose Elementary
• BCIC Lunar New Year: Revtrak/Stripe coming after break
  • Saturday, February 28 from 1-4 pm
  • BHS
  • Amazon Wishlist: We NEED your donations now!

JANUARY 4 is over winter break; we encourage all to fill out this short survey NOW.

Then, save the evening of Wednesday, February 11 for the Parent University itself. 

Register and join our BCIC Open Board Meeting in person or virtually; link will be emailed shortly before meeting to registrants. A group of former board members will speak and answer questions. Come hear about CI and BCIC's history. Come learn about BCIC today and hear how we are supporting the CI program through initiatives and events. Please use the registration link to submit a question/comment for our board to discuss by Friday, January 9.

Attention all 3-5th graders! Gather up your friends or make a new one at BCIC's Games in Chinese event from 9:30-11:30 on Saturday, January 24. Stay for the whole two hours or just drop by for a little bit, but just be sure to register and come!

Save your spot now. Registration required for all attendees.

Not a drop off event; parent supervision required.

We are excited to celebrate Lunar New Year with students, family, and staff from District 220's K-12 Chinese Immersion program. New this year, all members of the Barrington area community and beyond are invited to join in the festivities! This family friendly celebration will feature Chinese and Asian arts and crafts, cultural performances, and experiences for all ages. $15 admission tickets will be available for purchase beginning in January. Please join us for the festivities!

Career Exploration Thank you!

High school and middle school students learned about 4 different career opportunities and how knowing another language, including Mandarin, would be advantageous to those careers.

Many thanks to our amazing presenters!

• Mr. Robert Patchak, Vice President – Commercial and Operational Performance, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer, Veolia North America
• Ms. Lu Zhang, Logistics expert, most recently Around the World Logistics
• Dr. Donghua Tao, Professor and Associate Dean for the Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago
• Officer Kai Ding, City of Des Plaines Police Officer

We thank Xilin for cohosting and partnering with BCIC for this event. 

Many thanks go to board members Michelle Chase, Deepta Ramesh, & Becca Patchak for planning and cohosting this event.

D220 Winterfest Thank you!

BCIC decorated a tree with horse themed ornaments (to go with the upcoming LNY) created by our elementary students. New this year, BCIC hosted a table on both Friday and Saturday evening where guests played mahjong, practiced drawing characters on buddha boards, learned about Chinese culure, and more.

We appreciate the student volunteers that helped assemble & decorate our tree as well as those that helped at the table during Winterfest.

Special thanks go to board members, Deepta Ramesh, Leeann Chang, Zaoli Zhang, Matt Benkert, Erin Lales, & Becca Patchak for their contributions in preparing and hosting this special event.

Did you miss the presentation?

Open Board Meeting Presentation with Becky Wiegel & Dr. Wolfkiel Attached

Thank you to Becky Wiegel, Director of Language Programs, Grants & Family Engagement and Dr. Kathryn Wolfkiel, BHS World Language Department Chair for presentating at BCIC's open board meeting on November 13. 

If you submitted a question that was not addressed during the meeting, we encourage you to contact our presenters directly.

If at any point, you have additional questions for the adminstration, please know that you can continue to reach out to them. Emails are below.

Email Becky Wiegel at rwiegel@barrington220.org

Email Kathryn Wolfkiel at kwolfkiel@barrington220.org

We have decided to cancel our February Storytime at BAL; instead, this event will just be part of our LNY party. 

To avoid more events being scaled down, merged, or canceled, we need more people to register to be volunteers. You can help in the planning process or the day of event, but we need you to sign up to be on a list to contact. Every small contribution has a big impact. Please see how you can support our group for the benefit of your children and their classmates.

Every spiritwear order helps support BCIC!

Do you need a BCIC shirt to wear to our LNY event? We've got t-shirts & sweatshirts--and lots of other fun gift ideas too!

Adults, grab some CI gear to wear around town or at upcoming BCIC events like LNY.

Kids, grab some new CI gear to wear on Fridays to show your school spirit.

Your donation will help us to more generously support our events, students, & teachers! BCIC welcomes donations of any size. We very much appreciate all company matches. 

This link is a general donation towards BCIC that helps with all the things we support.

This link is specifically for a donation towards books to be used in our CI classrooms.

This link is specifically for a donation towards recruitment efforts.