青浦协和在本赛季首次派出了三名十年级学生出战“世界学者杯”高年级组区域赛(上海站)。“世界学者杯”起源于美国,获得耶鲁大学官方支持,每年邀请世界各地优秀学子汇聚一堂,为“学者们”提供一个包罗万象的知识与实践互动平台。参赛者三人一组,赛程和活动涵盖学术辩论、团体及个人写作、学者杯超级碗、才艺展示等等。青浦协和三位首战者勇敢应战来自科学、艺术、人文、经济等6个全球主题学科领域的跨学科赛事。
Shanghai United International School Qingpu Campus sent three students to the Regional Rounds of the World Scholar’s Cup event for the first time. The WSC is an event that connects scholars from different backgrounds; inspiring a passion for knowledge and giving scholars a platform to engage with the content they have learnt. Scholars are able to participate in debating, collaborative writing, and multiple choices tests. The aforementioned events are done in groups of 3, where every team member has to participate. Each scholar is taken out of their comfort zone, where we are all challenged to partake in debates as a team, write a persuasive essay and respond to multiple choice questions. The questions are drawn from the 6 subject areas given beforehand which each team had to study.
上月末的上海赛程持续两天,汇集了数百位优秀学子参与。我校学生在与来自全国各地的优秀学者的比赛中表现出色,为你们感到骄傲。相信这样的活动会激发学生发现自己的新优势,实践新技能,成为更好的未来学者与融汇中西的全球社区领导者。
The competition which began on Saturday and ended on Sunday last month was graced by students from several independent schools from all over Shanghai. Our students did very well against top scholars from across the world and we are so proud of them. The aims were to motivate students to discover new strengths and practice new skills, and to inspire a global community of future scholars and leaders.
在此祝贺我校队员获得了,知识挑战历史学科银奖、写作银奖、最佳学者金奖!
Congratulations to the pupils for their overall splendid performance: Silver – History, Gold – Best overall, Silver – Writing
首战之后,我们的队员将在学校成立“世界学者杯社团”,组建更大的队伍,积极应战来年的赛事。更有机会把自己的经验传授给新成员,学以致用。
The team members of this competition will set up the “World Scholars Cup Club” to form next year’s participating teams, pass their own experience to the new members, and apply what they have learned.
学生感言 Students’ Words
Angela Zhou
为了WSC,我们在多个星期之前就开始准备,Tony老师为我们提供了大量资料,每个晚自习带着我们熟练比赛知识,虽然过程非常辛苦,但是我们也从中收获了许多课堂里得不到的知识。除此之外,我们也为这次比赛的重头戏辩论做了许多练习,从刚开始的断断续续,无法正确表达自己的观点及反驳,到后面的自信强有力地举例论证,完美反驳对方论点,我们成长了很多。在正式比赛中,我们参与了辩论、写作、团体竞技和单人比拼。遇到了许多有超强实力的对手,也获得了珍贵的友谊。我们这次没有达到预期的全球赛,但是这次比赛经历教会了我们许多,也为下一场比赛作辅助和铺垫。值得开心的是,在这场比赛中,我一共收获一金一银两个奖项,也希望可以在下一场中继续突破自己,努力收获更多!
In order to participate in this game, we had prepared for several weeks. Mr. Tony provided all the required information for us and we looked up the research package every night. Although the process was very hard, but we also got a lot of knowledge that we cannot learn in the classroom. In addition, we also did a lot of practice for the debate, which was one of the most important part in this competition. From the beginning, we were unable to express our own opinions and refutations correctly. However, at the last with confident and powerful examples, we perfectly refuted all the arguments of the other side. We have grown a lot from the preparation time. In the official competition, we participated in debates, writing, team competitions and individual competitions. We met many opponents with super strength and also gained precious friendship. Although we didn’t achieve the expected global competition this time, but this competition experience taught us a lot and also laid a foundation for our next competition. Fortunately, in this game, I have a total of one gold and two silver awards, I also hope to continue to go beyond myself in the next time!
Heather Xu
WSC 每一轮都是一场苦战,辩论赛短短十五分钟的题目准备时间磨砺了我们的团队默契。随后的写作比赛到QUIZ题目,也是一场头脑风暴,持续了大约4小时。这短短两天,知识,友谊,自信,成功的喜悦纷至沓来。WSC,明年再战!
Each debating round was a hard battle, a contest of debate and argument, and a battle of mind. The short fifteen minutes of topic preparation time strengthened our team’s tacit understanding and ability. Then from the writing contest to the QUIZ question, the normal game lasted about 4 hours. In these two short days, became the harvest of receiving knowledge, friendship, confidence, the joy of success. See u next year! WSC!
Judy Jiang
初中时,我曾参加过WSC,并且进入过全球赛。这次的世界杯是我步入高中以来第一次在高级组施展拳脚。说实话这次比赛我很紧张,因为在原先初级组比赛已是非常激烈。到了赛场后发现,每一个人的英语基础非常扎实,并且他们对题目、材料包的理解都很透彻。比赛中我们组的小组辩论配合得比练习时好很多,对自己所负责的材料包理解也加深了。虽然有小小失利,但我们交到了很多朋友,也得到了宝贵经验。
In junior high school, I have participated in WSC and entered the global competition. This year was the first time I participated in the senior group. To be honest, I was very nervous because the competition in the junior group was already very intense. After arriving at the competition, I found that everyone has a very solid foundation in English, and they have a thorough understanding of topics and materials. In the competition, the team debates of our group were much better than in practice, and the understanding of the material package also deepened. Although there was a small loss, we have made many friends and gained valuable experience.