楓葉學(xué)子征戰(zhàn)世界學(xué)者杯 Maple Leaf Scholar's Win Medals at Sch

楓葉學(xué)子征戰(zhàn)世界學(xué)者杯 Maple Leaf Scholar's Win Medals at Scholar's Cup!

世界學(xué)者杯是一項年度全球競賽，旨在為來自世界各地的頂尖年輕學(xué)者帶來智力挑戰(zhàn)，并讓他們在這一過程中獲得樂趣。上周末，我校BC高中的三位學(xué)生代表我們學(xué)校參加了深圳區(qū)域賽。學(xué)者杯不僅挑戰(zhàn)參賽者的知識水平，還促進(jìn)學(xué)生思考和幫助他們識別學(xué)習(xí)方式，旨在促進(jìn)多學(xué)科學(xué)習(xí)、建立協(xié)作和團(tuán)隊合作，并幫助學(xué)生看到學(xué)習(xí)的“大局”。學(xué)者杯競賽全程使用英語，是學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)和提高英語技能的一個好機(jī)會。我們非常高興我校學(xué)生在4個不同的賽事中贏得了總共九枚獎牌 - 三個團(tuán)體獎牌和六個個人獎牌，他們同時還獲得了在今年夏天舉行的全球賽參賽資格!

The World Scholar’s Cup is an annual global competition which is designed to intellectually challenge top young scholar’s from around the world and also to have some fun along the way. This past weekend, the Shenzhen Regional round was held with three of our High School representing our school. The Scholar’s Cup does more than challenge knowledge, it pushes how students think and helps them identify how they learn and is intended to promote learning in many subjects, build collaboration and teamwork, and to help students see the “big picture” of learning. The Scholar’s Cup event is also held entirely in English and is another opportunity for students to develop and improve their English skills. We are very happy that our students won a total of nine (9) medals – three team medals and six (6) individual in 4 different events plus qualifying for the global round this summer!

我們的團(tuán)隊在活動開始前的幾個小時復(fù)習(xí)了舉辦方提供的準(zhǔn)備材料。競賽共有四項主要賽事需要準(zhǔn)備：團(tuán)隊辯論，合作寫作，知識挑戰(zhàn)，以及和來自深圳地區(qū)的400多名其他參賽者共同完成的知識競答。在準(zhǔn)備期間，學(xué)生們聚在一起復(fù)習(xí)參賽題目和各科目的詳細(xì)資料。他們還討論了團(tuán)隊合作以及他們在團(tuán)隊競賽中的合作方案和分工。

The team spent many hours prior to the event reviewing the preparation materials provided by the organizers. There were four main events to prepare for: The Team Debate, Collaborative Writing, the Scholar’s Challenge, and the wild and crazy Scholar’s Bowl completed together with the more than 400 other participants from all around the Shenzhen area. During the preparation, the students met together to review questions and to review the detailed information provided for each subject area. They also discussed teamwork and how they will plan to work together during the team competitions.

競賽的第一天，學(xué)生們在英語和社會學(xué)老師Mr. Lam的陪同下到達(dá)比賽現(xiàn)場并參加了開幕式，期間主持人為學(xué)生們帶來了一些娛樂活動，以幫助學(xué)生們緩解壓力、放松心情。我們的團(tuán)隊首先參加了團(tuán)隊辯論，討論的主題包括：技術(shù)的好處，我們?nèi)绾尾榭礆v史數(shù)據(jù)，以及百度如何在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上提供信息。我們的團(tuán)隊贏得了兩場比賽，除了一枚團(tuán)體銀牌，還收獲了三枚個人獎牌，其中王安涵獲得了一枚銀牌，丁傲然和皮錦潤分別獲得了一枚金牌。

On the first day the students were accompanied by our English & Social Studies teacher Mr. Lam and arrived at the site of the competition to participate in the Opening Ceremony where the hosts entertained the students with activities to help students get comfortable at the competition. Our team first went to the Team debate which were on the topics of the benefits of technology, how we view historical figures, and how Baidu provides information on the web. Our team won two matches and was awarded a Team Silver medal along with one individual Silver for Ann and gold medals to Andy and Sherlock.

下午的賽事是協(xié)同創(chuàng)作，學(xué)生們必須共同撰寫一篇關(guān)于某一特定領(lǐng)域主題的文章，關(guān)于政府是否應(yīng)該保護(hù)公民免于接收可能令人恐懼的信息。這是一次非常具有挑戰(zhàn)性的活動，我們的學(xué)生贏得了兩枚個人銀牌。最后的一場賽事是學(xué)者的挑戰(zhàn)，學(xué)生們需要在一個問題的多個解決方案中找出最優(yōu)答案。在這一環(huán)節(jié)中丁傲然參加了特殊領(lǐng)域單元的比賽并獲得一枚銀牌。

The afternoon featured collaborative writing where students had to work together to write an essay on a topic in a special area about if governments should protect citizens from information that might be frightening. This was a very challenging event and our students won two individual silver medals. The final event of the long day was the Scholar’s challenge were students were challenged to answer individual multiple-choice questions looking for the one answer which was better than the others. Andy won a silver medal for his participation in a Special Area subject.

第二天的主要賽事是知識競答，參賽團(tuán)隊需要通過使用搶答器進(jìn)行六輪搶答來獲取比分。 主辦方設(shè)置的題目都是學(xué)生不太可能了解的問題，所以考察的重點不是他們的知識水平，而是他們的思考判斷能力和協(xié)作能力。大部分的題目是讓學(xué)生通過觀看視頻或圖片給出問題的答案。其中一道看圖答題的答案是“l(fā)umpenproletariat”。你知道這個答案的意思嗎?我很自豪我們學(xué)校由王安涵、皮錦潤和丁傲然組成的團(tuán)隊因表現(xiàn)突出而在這一環(huán)節(jié)獲得團(tuán)隊金獎，并最終取得前15名的好成績!

The main activity of the final day was the Scholar’s Bowl were the teams were given clickers to provide answers to six rounds of successive difficult questions for points. The questions were based on things that the students were not likely to know very much about, so once again the focus was on their ability to think through the responses and work together to provide the “best” answer. Students were often showed video clips or pictures and then had to provide an answer to a question. One such answer to a question about who a speaker shown in a comic was addressing was “l(fā)umpenproletariat.” Do you know what this question would be about? We are proud that our team of Ann, Sherlock and Andy were awarded a team Gold medal for their performance and finished in the top 15!

我們的團(tuán)隊在整場比賽中取得了第18名的綜合成績，獲得了一枚銀牌，并受邀參加在全世界四個城市舉辦的全球賽。正如一位學(xué)生所說，他們喜歡一起參與這項活動，因為“這不僅考驗他們的個人知識水平，還考驗他們?nèi)绾螀R集知識的能力。”祝賀我校首個世界學(xué)者杯競賽團(tuán)隊在此次比賽中取得的成績，也祝他們在全球賽中取得好成績!

Overall, our team was awarded a Silver medal for their performance finishing in 18th place and has been invited to the Global round which occurs in four cities around the world. As one student said, they enjoyed participating in this together because it was “not just a test of one person’s knowledge, but how the team combined their knowledge together.” Congratulations to our first Scholar’s Cup team and good luck in the Global round!