北京中学国际部

在5月22日-23日举行的2021ASDAN“世界学者杯”（The World Scholar’s Cup）北京区域赛中，北京中学参赛的5支队伍从250多名参赛选手，80多支参赛队伍中脱颖而出，获得优异成绩，所有5支队伍全部晋级全国赛。

获奖具体情况

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团队奖项

个人奖项

参赛活动感想

01

Carrying the honor of our school, we carefully managed our speeches and tried our best to organize our ideas and be polite to both the judges and our opponents. We bravely stood against native speakers from the Western Academy of Beijing and AIDI International School and won several rounds——we fairly distributed what each of us had to do based on what we are good at. The result was quite satisfying: I won the award as the best debater overall and our team won the 6th place in the debates. If anyone would ask us how our team got the high rankings, we would proudly answer that they are all results of our strategic team collaboration.

——Kayla Yang

02

The WSC collaborative writing is different from other writing competitions. It is designed to encourage students to cooperate with teammates and then write individually.

Each team gets a topic sheet and then chooses three topics to write. When my team got the sheet, I tended to focus on the two topics that I prepared and decided to choose social studies for my topic. However, since it is more important to write a creative essay in the WSC writing, I was not confident about my ideas. So I discussed my ideas with my teammates. The discussion is what I enjoyed the most in this part. My teammates suggested that I should use my personal feelings and experiences in writing, and the writing should focus on the “strange feeling” indicated in the topic. This discussion with my teammates inspired me to have a more concrete idea with solid examples. So during the individual writing, my thoughts were more coherent, and I finished the writing without reconsidering structures and examples. After the individual writing, there were another 15 minutes for the team to do peer review. My teammates and I checked on each others’ vocabulary and grammar and made sure of the language and ideas. We all believed that our opinions were creative and innovative. And the result showed that we were right!

——Joyce Xu

03

Among all the sections in the World Scholar’s Cup competition, the one I was the least confident of was the Team Debating. I’d never tried any formal debates before, and I had no debate skills or experiences. However, during the preparation before the competition, I learned a bit about how to structure my speech and make it powerful and reliable, and those tips really worked. During the competition, we have 15 minutes for preparation and 4 minutes for speech. It is surely important to stay calm and organize your thoughts, and it’s equally important to listen carefully to what your opposing team is talking about and thus prepare a powerful rebuttal. There’s three competitions in total, and our team won two of them, not bad. One thing interesting about the debate is that the judge do not give suggestions or criticisms, and this task falls on the opposing team. So we had to give advice to the other team, and so did they. It’s really a lot of fun, and I learned a lot from both the competition itself and from the teams we debated with.

—Summer Cao

04

于我而言，长达几周的备赛和两天的比赛过程都是令人享受的。在活动中获得Scholar’s Challenge的Art&Music学科第一的成绩，在意料之外，回顾整个备赛过程，似乎又在情理之中。比赛前，学校组织我们进行了两场模拟比赛；我喜欢读书，非常认真地研读了举办方发的各类备赛材料和相关链接，对比赛取得成绩有很好的帮助。

由于我个人的兴趣爱好，music部分是我的天然优势，在别人看来需要了解、聆听的歌曲，于我而言本就非常熟悉而容易了，不过对art（绘画和雕塑）部分内容我几乎一窍不通，所以我尽力去记忆这部分的相关资料，例如艺术作品的作者、创作背景、内容细节以及后世评注等。

总的来说，这次比赛过程就是一次愉悦的、使人快速成长的学习经历，一举多得。一分耕耘一分收获，我参赛，我享受。

——David Cao

05

在本次的世界学者杯比赛中，辩论是我们整个比赛中最担心的部分，因为我和组员都喜欢辩论，但没有辩论的实战经验。在辩论的第一场，我们每个人的手都是凉的，面无表情，我能感觉到自己打字的手在微微颤抖，不过我们每个人都很认真地准备，也遇到了一个可爱的老师，一直对我们微笑，让我们很快放松下来。尽管气氛很紧张，但是我们准备得比较充分，比较容易地赢得了第一场辩论，我们顺利晋级并迎接第二场辩论。

有了第一场辩论的经验，我们小组成员也都增长了信心，积极投入辩论准备过程中。在第二场快结束时，我们每个人脸上都洋溢着压抑不住的笑容，因为我们知道，我们再一次胜利了。最后一场辩论我们每个人都很激动也很紧张，因为如果我们再一次取得胜利，那么我们将取得辩论三连胜，那该是多好的一件事情啊。

庆幸的是，我们连赢了三场比赛。我为我们优秀的团队感动骄傲。因为我们的高效的团队合作，灵活的思维和随机应变的能力，我们团队也获得了学术辩论团队银奖。

 —— Lisa Jin 

BAID students do our school proud!

Our previous outing at the World Scholars Cup had done an exceptional job of highlighting the high caliber of our students at BAID. Eager to prove our achievements were no mere flash in the pan, there was a big push by the students to emulate their peer’s previous efforts in the competition. The World Scholars Cup offers an excellent platform, not only for students to practice their skills and knowledge, but also demonstrate what goes into supporting and fostering student talent at the school level.

On the 22-23 May, I am very pleased to be able to say that BAID students did the school very proud. We greatly increased the number of teams we sent and it was great to see each and every one of them achieve something. Although the accolades came in thick and fast, it was especially satisfying to see each team qualify for the next round of the competition and for BAID to have a commanding influence on the academic and debate focused areas of the competition.

——指导老师 Mr. Adam