全球热资讯！MIS USAD Results | 深圳曼校学子喜获全球高中学术界“奥斯卡”华南区一等奖

The USAD Global Finals lasted for more than five months and ended recently, with hundreds of teams competing in China. Among them, six students from "Royal Mile Global Elite Academy" (For short: "Royal Mile") of Shenzhen Merchiston International Foreign Students" School (For short: "MIS") participated in the USAD competition for the first time and made outstanding achievements in the competition. They won 4 team awards and 14 individual awards, among which the total team score won the first prize in South China Region.

Won the first prize in the

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USAD Finals in South China

As the most authoritative platform for high school students" comprehensive academic team competition in the United States, the USAD competition is comparable to the "Oscar" of academia, known as the intellectual challenge to the world"s top universities. The competition consists of ten subjects, including seven objective subjects: art, economics, literature, mathematics, music, science, and social science; There are also three subjective subjects: speech, interview, and writing. Each year, the competition has a specific theme, and all preparation study is conducted around the theme.

△Michael，Remy，Olivia are teamworking

It is worth mentioning that since the competition team needs to gather six to nine students of equal level, many high school students from international schools need to join forces across the school and go to Hainan together to participate in the competition and select the six best performance to participate in the evaluation. The Royal Mile team, aged 13 to 14, did so well with no backup players, six against nine, and an online entry. The players" outstanding performance in USAD fully reflects the advantages of the MIS"s holistic education -- a solid academic foundation, a wide range of knowledge, and a robust psychological quality.

Entered the top 10%

in the first competition

△Olivia was nicknamed "MIS Gu Ailing" by her classmates

Good at football, basketball, and rowing... Olivia was nicknamed "MIS Gu Ailing" by her classmates because of her developed sports cell, excellent study, and lively personality. As the team leader of this competition, she entered the top 10% in the first competition and won the individual rookie award.

△Olivia is answering the question during the competition

Olivia said that she was best prepared for the interview and speech among all the parts of the competition. The title of the speech was "If I Can Make a Difference in the World." When writing the speech, she consulted the school"s foreign teachers. Regarding the interview, the judges asked, "What are your plans for your future?" Olivia, who has always been interested in architecture, replied, I want to promote the culture of ancient Chinese architecture worldwide in the future.

△Olivia gets the medal

"The math and economics knowledge in the USAD competition is all the content I have learned in class. I felt relaxed during the whole exam, even the shock of dimensionality reduction." Deo, who got the highest score in South China, followed the route of international education from childhood. He studied in famous international schools in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and other places and played golf well. After passing the examination last year, I entered the Royal Mile Scholarship Programm of MIS.

△PGA Junior Champion Deo gets another champion for MIS

"The Royal Mile was challenging and fun, and the teachers were able to harness my full learning potential." Ken, a team member who chose the most severe difficulty mode in USAD, said that the competition requires high academic proficiency—the 18th and 19th centuries happened to be the period of rapid development of basic disciplines such as physics and chemistry. In the competition, rare questions such as the development history of science and the founder of a scientific principle will be asked, requiring students to master the basic knowledge of interdisciplinary and multi-fields.

△Ken from Royal Mile

Integration and innovation

△MIS Graduates

It is known that this international boarding school with a history of nearly 200 years is a pure British international school. After five years of continuous exploration and practice, it has integrated the British holistic education concept with the advantages of traditional Chinese teaching and gradually opened up a "small but beautiful, specialized and refined, pure and excellent" "MIS Path." And gradually out of an "international education localization, local education internationalization" road.

No matter where students come from, their year group, or their learning background, they can find a suitable learning and development path at MIS.

From the campus to the world, the MIS students have succeeded in various international competitions and will bring the MIS values to the world, such as collaborative, enquiring, resilient, and international-minded... It is the best evidence of this pure British international school"s practice of holistic education.

Adhering to the educational vision of "making ordinary children more excellent and excellent children more outstanding" and the educational philosophy of holistic education, we also believe that more and more of our students will enter the international stage, join international affairs, build a global perspective, and become a world citizen with both integrity and ability.

近日，持续5个多月的美国学术十项全能USAD全球总决赛落下帷幕，中国赛区共有数百支队伍参赛，群雄逐鹿，战况空前。其中深圳曼彻斯通城堡外籍人员子女学校（以下简称：曼校）的“皇家一英里全球精英学院”（以下简称：皇家一英里）的六位同学首次参加USAD竞赛，便在赛场上大放异彩。获得4项团队奖和14项个人奖，其中团队总分获得华南区一等奖。

首次参赛即获USAD总决赛华南区一等奖

作为美国最权威的高中生综合学术团队竞赛平台，USAD竞赛含金量堪比学术界的“奥斯卡”，被誉为通往世界名校的学术挑战。该竞赛包含十个科目，其中有七个客观题考试科目，分别为艺术、经济、文学、数学、音乐、科学、社会科学；另外有三个主观考试科目：演讲、面试与写作。每年的比赛都有一个特定的主题，所有的备赛学习都是围绕着主题而进行。

△Michael，Remy，Olivia在比赛中的团队作战

值得一提的是，因为参赛团队需要集合水平旗鼓相当的六到九位同学，不少国际学校的高中生需要跨校联合，九人同赴海南现场参赛，选取六位最佳成绩参与评比。深圳曼校皇家一英里学院这支参赛队平均年龄只有十三四岁，在没有候补队员，以六敌九，且在线参赛的情况下，取得如此佳绩，表现实在可圈可点。选手们在USAD中的出色表现，充分体现了曼校全人教育的优势——学术基础扎实，知识面广，心理素质强。

首次参赛便跻身前10%

“曼校谷爱凌”立志推广中国古建筑文化

△Olivia被同学们称作”曼校谷爱凌“

擅长足球、篮球和赛艇……Olivia因为运动细胞发达，学习优异、性格活泼被同学戏称为“曼校谷爱凌”。作为本次大赛的团队组长，她首次参赛成绩便进入全国前10%，获得了大赛个人新秀奖。

△Olivia在比赛中回答问题

Olivia表示，在所有比赛环节中，她准备最充分的是面试和演讲，演讲题目选择了“如果能对世界进行改变”，撰写演讲稿时，特意请教了学校外籍老师。到了面试环节，评审的问题是“你对自己的未来有什么规划”。Olivia一直对建筑很感兴趣，她回答道，我未来要在全世界将中国古建筑的文化发扬光大。

△Olivia同学领奖瞬间

“USAD比赛中有关数学和经济学方面的知识，都是平时上课时曾学过的内容，整场考试感觉很轻松，甚至是觉得是在降维打击。”获得华南区最高分的Deo，则从小便走国际教育路线，曾辗转在香港、深圳等地的知名国际学校就读，擅长打高尔夫球。去年通过考核后，顺利进入曼彻斯通城堡学校的“皇家一英里”奖学金项目。

△拿过PGA少年组冠军的Deo同学再次代表曼校夺冠

“皇家一英里的学习充满了挑战性和趣味性，老师们能充分调动自己的学习潜力。”在此次比赛中选择了USAD难度最高模式的团队成员Ken提到，此次比赛对参赛人员的学术水平要求很高。恰好18、19世纪是物理、化学等基础学科飞速发展的时期，比赛中会问到科学的发展历程、某科学原理的创始人是谁之类比较生僻的问题，需要学生掌握跨学科、多领域的基础知识。

△Ken同学

融合与创新 致力打造一所

最懂中国的纯英式寄宿制国际学校

△深圳曼校毕业生

据了解，这所拥有近200年历史的纯英式寄宿制国际学校，在落子中国后经过五年不断地探索和实践，将英式全人教育理念及中国传统教学的优势相融合，逐渐开辟出一条“小而美，专而精、纯而优”的“曼校路径”，并逐渐走出了一条“国际教育本土化,本土教育国际化”的道路。

无论学生来自哪里，处于什么年龄段，学习背景如何，他们都能在曼校找到适合自己的学习发展路径。

从校园走向世界，曼校的学生在各大国际比赛中屡创佳绩，将合作、求知、韧性、国际世界……的曼校价值观带向世界，便是这所纯正英式国际学校践行全人教育理念的最好佐证。

秉承“让平凡的孩子更优秀，优秀的孩子更卓越”的教育愿景和全人教育的教育理念，我们也相信将有更多曼校学子走向国际舞台，走进国际事务，建立国际视野，成为一名德才兼备的世界公民。

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