Dr. Peggy Pelonis was invited to The World Innovation Summit on Education (WISE); a most prominent event that took place November 19-21 in Doha, Qatar. The conference was titled “Unlearn, Relearn: What it means to be Human,” and focused on current trends and urgent challenges in education. Sponsored by the Qatar Foundation and her Excellency Sheikka Hind bint Hamad Al-Thani and organized by WISE CEO Stavros Yiannoukas, the conference featured world-renowned speakers devoted to the advancement of education and to providing educational opportunities for children in developing countries.

Dr. Pelonis worked with the Learner's Voice project and was among the judges evaluating emerging leader projects in debate, impromptu and educational innovation pitches. Among the invited speakers were performer Shakira, devoted to educating underprivileged children through her "zero out of school children project" and Dr. Nicholas Christakis, Professor at Yale University discussing his work on Artificial Intelligence and exploring the ideas of compassion and ethics with machines.  ACS Athens' very own student Elina Pippa proudly won the debate competition and continued to debate the topic of “Standardized assessments are anachronistic and hinder learning”.