BIGMUN is Birkerød Gymnasium’s annual MUN conference, Birkerød Gymnasium Model United Nations. By hosting a youth conference in which young people from many different countries participate, it is possible to participate as a delegate, where you help to discuss global issues or work as a journalist, for example. The conference extends over five days during week 8, and the applications are decided by the steering committee behind the conference. As a delegate, you will push beyond your personal opinions and adopt those of another country, thus gaining a global perspective. As a member if the Press Group you will be covering the conference, including the website www.bigmun.dk and related social media accounts. If public speaking isn't your thing, you can practice your language skills in either English, German or another language by hosting one or more of the visiting students during the five days of BIGMUN. Lotte Vest is the teacher to contact if you want to know more or just want to sign up as a host.

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At Birkerød Gymnasium we do Happy Reading every January as a tradition. Here, twice a week, we break up the school day for all 2.g students, who are instead allowed to sit down and read a fiction book of their own choosing.  Happy Reading creates calm and presence in a dark and busy time, while also strengthening the students' ability to concentrate and their joy of reading. In the students' busy everyday lives, it is difficult to find time to immerse themselves in reading for pleasure. Therefore, the idea with Happy Reading is to set up a framework with quiet time without notifications, just reading in quiet surroundings and yet in the company of the class. It has also been shown that reading for longer periods without interruptions trains our general reading comprehension and reading speed, which can benefit the students in all subjects and later in their further studies. To increase young people's connection to libraries, we accompany the Happy reading tradition every year with varying collaborations with the school's study center and Birkerød Library, which, for example, helps recommend books to students.

If you take the business economics course, you can take part in our Start-up Academy, which is an entrepreneurial course for those who are driven, ambitious, and dream big. During two months, you will be introduced to entrepreneurship from ideas to reality and you will receive training in developing, designing, testing, and pitching your own ideas. The course consists of project work once a week every Monday from 16.00-18.30. Skilled and experienced entrepreneurs are brought in for each teaching session, who teach entrepreneurship while also helping connect theory and practice. The course ends with everyone pitching their ideas to a panel of entrepreneurs. The best idea wins a one-year mentoring program with an experienced entrepreneur.

Being able to participate in a discussion and being able to argue one's case is an important competency in a democratic society. We want to support the development of this skillset at BG, and therefore we offer a debate club where we acitively participate in debate competitions with other schools. You will also have the opportunity to sharpen your argumentation skills in our MUN Society and at the school's BIGMUN (Big Model UN) conference.

The Academy for Talented Young People is a 2-year program for those who are strong academically and crave challenges and the opportunity to learn more. Come to lectures, participate in workshops and get the opportunity to work on a project with some of the country's leading professors, researchers, and companies. Make new and valuable contacts with other young people who are passionate about the same things as you, and learn from the best. We create the framework so that you can develop and thrive in a stimulating environment.

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InterMat is a collaboration between high schools in Zealand and DTU/Matematicum. The project was started in 2014 at Birkerød Gymnasium with the aim of helping students get off to a good start with higher studies within a math context. Since then, the concept has spread to a large number of secondary schools, with BG as the leader. InterMat is a voluntary offer that runs over a year, from 2nd year to 3rd year. It is schedule with 1 module (1.5 hours) every two weeks. Additionally, a large project day is held at DTU with lecturs, experiments, and group exercises. A good added benefit is that some of the students are professionaly trained for SRP topics that they would otherwise not have been able to work with. DTU Compute has newly developed a number of SRP exercises as an extension of the InterMat material.

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Published poets select 20 participants from all over the country based on poems that have been submitted. If your poem is selected, you will be offered a place on a writing course over a weekend, where you, along with the others who have been selected, will be taught bu professional writers. In addition, there is an opportunity to participate in the Litt Talk festival. DM in poetry for young people is organized by the Danish Writers Association and Vallekilde Højskole and is also supported by the State's Art Foundation., Autokontoen, and efond. The aim of this project is to raise awareness of the young generation within literature and to shapren young people's interest in writing.

The DM in short story writing is part of the DM in poetry, which is organized by the Danish Writer's Association. 20 participants from schools around Denmark are selected, and then the judges, consisting of a group of 5 published authors, chooses that year's winner. BG's students are dilligent participants in this competition.

If you enjoy foreign languages and like to compete at a high level, then you will enjoy the language competitions which happen in teams at the school, but also across schools and different countries. In recent years, we have participated nationally in the DM in Language and Language Olympiad iLcompetition, as well as interntionally in the translation competition, Juvenenes Translatores.

In the Drughunger competition, you can use your knowledge from teaching to experiment with the development of new and better medicines. There are competitions for students in chemistry, biology, and biotechnology. The topics can cover everything from physiology of the nervous system to medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. First, you compete internally in groups in the classes, and the winner of the class sends their answer to Lundbeck. On the day of the finals, the group will enter Lundbeck and compete against students from other high schools. BG's students are often among the finalists and we have brought home many prizes.

Every year, EUSO Denmark invites all high schools in Denmark to participate in the international science Olympiad. The high school participates with a team consisting of three students. The participants are typically chosen from around the high school's 1st year students, as no participant can be over 17 years of age. Competence and experimental skills are competed for in the subjects of biology, physics, and chemistry. The starting point is the curricula at C level, and emphasis is placed on the teams' ability to collaborate, apply scientific thinking, and carry out experiments. BG's students have participated in the Olympiad many times, and with excellent results. In 2019, for instance, we received a gold medal.

The George Mohr Competition is a mathematics competition for high school students. Here you can cultivate your interest in mathematics, and be challenged together with the most talented students at a level that is higher than you would encounter in daily teaching. The competition is also part of the selection of participants for the IMO, the International Mathemical Olympiad. The George Mohr Competition takes place in two rounds. The first round is helpd in mid-autumn, and the second round is held in January. The first round requires no registration and anyone can participate. If you receive a good result in the first round, then you quality to participate in the second round.

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