Colegio Nautilus

Colegio Nautilus
Address
Juan Sebastian Elcano#16 Acapulco Mexico
Coordinates	16°50′53.60″N 99°50′41.70″W
Information
Type	Private schhool
Motto	La perfección de la naturaleza es nuestra mejor lección
Founded	1986
Headmaster	Dr. Alejandro Oscós
Color(s)	Blue and white
Website	http://www.nautilus.edu.mx/

The Nautilus School is a renowed bilingual private school in the city of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico founded in 1986. The institution offers its services in the Preschool, Primary (Elementary) and Secondary (Middle School) levels. The certification of the University of Cambridge, England for English as a second language has been offered since 1986. They include the High/Scope approach in Preeschool, the program of marine education for children M.A.R.E from the Lawrence Hall of Science from the University of Berkeley and the first in offering digital media training courses from Apple Inc to children.

History

The basic education in Acapulco before the great tourist developments of the 1980s underwent an inadequate relation between the academic contents and required the educative and cultural necessities for a tourist height without precedents in Mexico. In half of the Eighties with the important projects of investment and Freeway of the Sun, Acapulco required a new educational model that met the academic demands of local and foreign students of this new port. The tourist vocation of Acapulco's, as well as the new Mexican and foreign families of who got up themselves to contribute to the development of the new Acapulco, demanded a school with bilingual cuuriculum of high academic quality. In addition to the economic changes, it was the environmental quality of the ecological surroundings and but mainly the health of the bay of Santa Lucia, this fundamental aspect for the sustainable development of the city, required (for the first time in a tourist port in Mexico) the design of a program of environmental education with emphasis in the marine ecosystem. For all these new contents in the programs it was counted on the collaboration of the Olinca School of the city of Mexico, the Advanced Study and Research center of the IPN and the University of California at Berkeley.

For September 1987 the Nautilus School was inaugurated thanks to the great support of distinguished local industralists summoned by the patronage of the school. At the beginning of the Nineties the school had managed to certify its programs of English, environmental education and to be the first school in Acapulco with a computerized multimedia hall. In this heading of educative technologies, the school maintained the leadership in the matter of computacional culture until obtaining the service to the parents to see its children work in the classroom via Internet and being once more the first School in Acapulco to have a technological partnership with Apple Inc.

At the moment, in 2008 the school has new designed facilities architectonic and electronically to go beyond the interactive blackboards. To its 22 years since its foundation, the school has developed architectonic spaces that teachers aptitudes of and student allow to the optimization of the creative generating suitable processes of learning to obtain the excellence.