Zou Weijian / Eddy Zou
SCIE class of 2019
Majors in economics in London School of Economics and Political Science
He was Awarded in ONS thesis competition in May 2020, and the paper was published on the website of ONS
SCIE Teacher:?We learned that you just published an academic paper on the official website of ONS. Could you please introduce the subject of your paper? And what social significance do you think it has?
Eddy:?At the beginning of March this year, I joined Renaissance Prize Competition of ONS with three classmates from LSE. This is a competition for all British undergraduates requesting students to discuss the impact of Sustainable Development Goals on UK business and economy. Our paper was published on ONS website after we won the prize.
I think the significance of this competition is to continue the mechanism of evidence-based policy encouraged by UK. The government increasingly hopes to integrate the development framework into its own policy plans. However, as a relatively central individual, it is inevitable to meet the situation that the information is asymmetric and imperfect, so the government wants to appeal to all parties to provide some evidence that can help analyze and estimate the effects on British society. As an independent government agency, ONS hopes to help the public to understand what the framework means to them.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
SCIE Teacher:?You must put a lot of painstaking effort in this paper, but in this process, which part did you put the most energy?
Eddy:?This paper was completed by four of us. From the start to design the frame of the thesis to use the Latex to modify it, we divided the work into four parts, each of us had to finish our own part, and then “criticized”each other’s product. The part I put in the most energy should be on the final reflection on the existing data of ONS for SDGs framework and the policy impact caused by these increasingly rich data. In order to ensure the discussion of this part fully align with the actual policy, I read a number of UK government policy documents, kept thinking about the defects the current policies might have, in what ways can richer data change the current policy formation process, and combined with a discussion of the most important issues in British society.
Reports on ONS official website (Google browser is recommended):
Report from Economics Department of LSE:
SCIE Teacher:?After graduating from SCIE last year, you went to LSE to study economics. How do you feel about this school after one year of study?
Eddy:?LSE is a diversified school, which is somewhat similar to SCIE. Students come from different parts of the world, everyone has their own unique part. The atmosphere in this school is very free, students have many choices in their work, career and life, but there are so many excellent and admirable people around, your choices will be subconsciously changed by pressure from peers.
SCIE Teacher:?There are many juniors in our school are also interested in LSE. Can you please talk about your daily life in LSE?
Eddy:?The life in Economics Department of LSE is very independent. Lesson period is limited to a maximum of 14 hours a week, so you will have a lot of time to explore and self-study.
All lectures in this school are free to enter and leave, and professors’office hour is also booked freely by themselves. There are often various seminars and talks, some of which are for publics and some are very technical. I was usually shocked by the sharp thoughts of some of those especially great professors in technical research seminars.
Professors will not discuss with you and help with your homework on their initiative, everything depends on your own efforts, I think, which might be the important difference between LSE and Oxbridge. ?
During this year I wrote various application forms for internships, joining communities, doing independent researches and being a researcher assistant. Although I received a lot of rejection letters and these works spent me a lot of time, I do believe I have a clear thought on the way I want to go in the future.
In freshman-level course, the school mainly focuses on the cultivation of mathematics and statistical ability, and economics course is much more fundamental. In economics department, there is a wide range of self-selected courses from which you can freely choose at least one every year, so it gives everyone a lot of plasticity. After I chose abstract maths, I began to doubt myself every day.
It’s better not to have high expectations to the freshman-level course because the learning pressure in the first semester is indeed controllable. However, the quality and difficulty of the courses in sophomore will be greatly improved from the feedbacks of senior students. There are a lot of resources you can use outside the course (Regarding to Courses of LSE moodle, undergraduates can even view graduates course resources and lecture recording, LSE resources for job hunting and career plan, professor’s office hour, community activities, students from all over the world, and the well-stocked library.), but you have to make a very good plan and improve your ability in every aspect.
SCIE Teacher: I heard that you showed a great enthusiasm and talent for economics and self-studied many university economics courses when you were a student in SCIE. Now, do you have a deeper understanding of economics.
Eddy:?I hope I have. when I was in high school, I was attracted to the branches of economics such as development and political economics. But I focused more on economic theory and narratives like “how does economic growth happen”.
After this year in LSE, I realized that my interest is more focused on empirical analysis. Although the theoretical framework can lead us to think about the problems that have occurred and haven’t occurred, I think it is much more important to test these theories by collecting various data and information in real life. The modern economy has also expanded itself to more areas through the use of empirical tools. For example, to explore how to most effectively reduce wars and conflicts in developing countries and the impact of TV series on social attitudes and fertility etc. I suggest that students who are interested in economics should not only pay attention to theory and model, but also need to think about the applications of these theories in reality. Such as, how to use data and statistical tools to test these hypotheses, how to use these empirical facts to help us discuss social problems and policies.
SCIE Teacher:?Last month, you broadcasted an online sharing session for SCIE students. Could you please tell us what experience did you share? And why did you launch this sharing session?
Eddy:?In this sharing session, I just wanted to give the younger students some advices on those aspects I have experienced. For example, preparing for university, adjusting your life from high school to university and career path of academic research. The main reason I want to do this is that I benefited a lot from the sharing sessions hosted by senior students, so I want to help other students within my scope. I think it’s a positive cycle.
SCIE Teacher:?Looking back now, do you think what’s your biggest achievement in SCIE?
Eddy:?I became calmer when met contingencies. From G1 to A2 I felt like living in a shrinking society, not only concerned about study, but also had to balance social life and community tasks. I felt uncomfortable at the very beginning, but after I got familiar with this school, I felt this kind of life is very challenging and exciting. So that’s why I can deal with things much more calmly after four years. In addition, for me, SCIE has a relatively free learning atmosphere and teachers who are willing to support you in different aspects, which makes me more confident to explore the fields I like and the way I want to go.
Introduction:
Celinca is an A1 student of SCIE. She spent five vacations which lasted for two and a half years completing a research project on China’s targeted industrial poverty alleviation. In May 2020, the Seoul International Conference invited Celinca to participate in the “Business, Economics, Social Sciences and Humanities” academic seminar. As the only high school student attending the conference, her scientific research results were displayed and included at the conference. Meanwhile, the research result will also be published in international journals.
Using Knowledge to Support the Future Without Poverty
Mentioning this research project, I would like to start from an activity aimed to help rural poor children when I was in junior high school in Harbin. As a student representative, I came to the countryside and handed out the books and stationery which we donated to the poor children. The children were very happy, but I was completely shocked.
The living conditions of poor children in rural areas exceeded my imagination. They had almost no extracurricular books except the old textbooks; their stationery boxes were strange, some were old lunch boxes, and some were plastic bags; they lived in low, shabby, mud-grass houses vulnerable to summer rain and winter wind. I communicated with a few students who were younger than me. They told me that after school, they needed to spend most of their time doing farm work with adults. “In summer, the scorching sun burns my body, it is really painful.”
On the way back to the city, I kept thinking about a problem. My hometown Heilongjiang is the main grain-producing region in China. The land is fertile and the people are hardworking, but why are there so many poor farmers? I started to look up some relevant materials, and consulted some township staff. I found multiple origins of the farmers’ poverty, such as long frost period, inefficient transportation, inability to resist natural disasters, blocked information and so on. At the same time, I also found that there are much more poor people in the whole country and even the world. So, how can we help them to get rid of poverty? I want to do something for them.
After that, during every vacation, I would go to the countryside and go deep into the poor families to know about their living conditions. Also, I started to study China’s poverty alleviation policies. In 2017, I was surprised to find that China’s ongoing measure “targeted poverty alleviation” has begun to bear fruit. Therefore, I began to do research on this effective poverty alleviating approach as well as using data to record the impact of the country’s targeted poverty alleviation policies on the rural poverty population. Through consulting a large number of relevant information and books, I learned that poverty alleviation belongs to development economics, which is a branch of economics. Learning both economics and geography knowledge is required to conduct further in-depth research in this field. However, there are only limited number of domestic international schools which offer geography courses, so I applied for SCIE, which is the best among these schools.
In SCIE, I have received the professional guidance of teachers (Really appreciate my counsellor Mr. Roger Underhill, Geography teacher Mr. Stuart Ashmore, Ms. Rachel?Reiss and Economics teacher Ms. Chloe Tan). I have also received the warm-hearted help from senior schoolmates. Many previous questions of mine have been answered, and the accumulation of economic and geographical knowledge also provides more theoretical support for my research. At this time, through several years of targeted poverty alleviation, China’s poverty alleviation work has achieved significant results and the poverty population in my hometown has basically been lifted out of poverty. During the 2019 Christmas holidays, I returned to my hometown Heilongjiang and conducted a multi-day study in the poorest township–Yulin Township, Mingshui County, Heilongjiang Province. Combining with past data, I was pleased to see a huge change in the living conditions of poor households there. In 2014, its 7 incorporated villages were poverty villages, with 2,735 people living in poverty, while by the end of 2019, poverty in Yulin Township had been basically eliminated. At the same time, the average annual income per household increased from 2,538.80 RMB in 2014 to 14,477.35 RMB in 2019. Seeing the flat roads, the neat and spacious houses and the happy faces of children on campus, I was extremely excited.
The 2019 Nobel laureates in economics, trying to explore the root causes of poverty, found that “excessive, undisciplined external aid can be a bad thing, and the more aid, the more dependent the poor will grow on the aid.” This is a problem faced by every country worldwide when carrying out poverty alleviation work. While the ‘targeted industrial poverty alleviation menu’ taken by Yulin Township in Mingshui County is a good solution to this problem. “Crops order planting, customizing dried vegetables, geese raising assistance, PV electricity generation, leading and cooperation, public service jobs” and other poverty alleviation measures are offered to the poverty households in the form of a “menu”. Through targeted matching, poverty population can truly get rid of poverty through independent work and operation. This changes the way of poverty alleviation from “blood transfusion” to “blood making”, so as to minimize the risk of returning to poverty. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said “China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and its experiences can provide valuable lessons to other developing countries.” I decided to use the expertise I have learned to compile the large amount of real poverty alleviation data collected over the years from the “poverty alleviation front line” and to summarize the experience of poverty alleviation in my hometown through targeted industrial poverty alleviation programme to help more poverty population around the world to get rid of poverty.
In May 2020, I received the invitation from Seoul International Conference and participated in the “Business, Economics, Social Sciences and Humanities” academic seminar, where my scientific research result were presented and included at the conference and will also be published in international journals. I am very pleased that more scholars and readers will pay attention to China’s effective targeted poverty alleviation measures and results, so that more poverty population can benefit from it.
By the end of 2020, China will have implemented poverty alleviation of all rural poverty population by current standard. However, poverty is still a worldwide problem, eliminating poverty is a common historical task faced by human being. on July 15th, 2019, the United Nations Development Agency released <2019 annual global multidimensional poverty index>. According to the report, there are still 1.3 billion people around the world in a “multidimensional poverty state”. The sources of their poverty vary, but one thing is the same, that is their lives are full of tribulation, they need help.
I know that I have found the future direction. I will continue to use what I have learned to help people struggling in the poverty. Hope that poor mothers in Kenya will not have to cook stones to coax their children, that poor girls in India who are forced to marry at the age of teenagers can go to school, that the poor people infected by COVID-19 in Ecuador can be treated, and that there will be no poverty in the future.
- Written by Celinca
On the evening of April 12, 2020, the USAD China 2020 officially ended. Due to the outbreak of Coronavirus, the event was delayed and changed to the form of online testing. The USAD USA 2020 originally scheduled on May was unfortunately canceled. In the process of online competition, despite the disruption of the epidemic, the members of our SCIE community team are still actively preparing for the game, making the best preparations for the online testing. In order not to have any regrets, we spared no efforts to strive to the medal of every subject.
The United States Academic Decathlon（USAD）is an American academic competition for high school students. It consists of 10 events: math, economics, science, social science, music, art, literature, essay, interview and speech. Every year，the Los Angeles Times and other important medias will report on this event and the president of the United States will commend the USA Finals champion team of all previous year at the White House. This event also attracts many students from domestic major international schools and international departments to participate actively.
The theme this year was “In Sickness and Health: An Exploration of Illness and Wellness“, which included some expertise that we were seldom exposed to. But we were not afraid, and even more determined when we received the news that the offline competition was postponed and changed to virtual competition. In the preparation process, we were 100% focused and persistent.
During the online competition, we entered the meeting with our own devices. The invigilators supervised the testing through the camera of the devices, which cooperated with the restrictions of the evaluation of Webloom can fully guaranteed the fairness of the competition. Under the guidance of the invigilators, competitors orderly logged in the assessment of various subjects on the Webloom website. Even interviews and speeches can took place by recording video. In order to ensure that the participants can skillfully operate the system in the formal competition to avoid being disqualified caused by technical mistakes, the organizers conducted a simulation game with the same process as the formal competition several weeks in advance.
The online competition officially ended. Although it was postponed for two months and changed to a virtual competition, our team members still insisted in constant practice and knowledge review under the organizer’s instructions. And the large amount of time and effort we paid also got the return we deserved. The Award Ceremony was broadcast live on Bilibili, and the number of online viewers exceeded 50,000.
In this USAD China Game， SCIE representative team won 9 academic and non-academic awards:
Shenzhen College of International Education
Outstanding Achievement Award (3 Years)
Holistic Education Rising Star School
?G1 Ling Duan (honors)
Gold Award in Science
Gold Award in Literature
Gold Award in Social Science
Top Score by Team Award
G1 Agnes Sun (Varsity)
Bronze Award in Interview
Xue Piao: Coaching Excellence Award
Yanfang Zhu: Coaching Excellence Award
We sincerely congratulate the above awarded students and teachers and appreciate the efforts and contributions made by our team members. There is no end to learning. Let’s keep working hard and make more achievements in USAD 2021.
- Written by Nicola
During the time of coronavirus, students of SCIE are all staying at home for the purpose of quarantine. However, members of the Politics ECA have successfully reunited through internet technology, and have gone through a wonderful discussion about the Super Tuesday event during the ongoing presidential election in the United States.
Our ECA activity was led by Mr Richard Driscoll as always. Before the class, Mr Richard has sent a little task for me and Davena: research on the Super Tuesday event and some of its primary candidates, including their original positions, main policies the number votes they get respectively.? I will give a little summary here. The US presidential election is usually split into two stages, namely the primary election and a formal one afterwards. Super Tuesday is the primary election usually held in February or March when the greatest number of US states hold primary elections and caucuses. It will strongly impact on the final results of the election, so this day is therefore named as “Super Tuesday”. (We don’t really know why it’s Tuesday and not any other day though!)
The main candidates during the 2020 presidency election include Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (these two had just quitted the election unfortunately), all from the democratic party. From the other side we have Donald Trump for the republicans, and he is leading the votes in his party as the current president.
Joe Biden, being the 47th vice president of the United States, is an outstanding lawyer and politician in Delaware. He was also an experienced vice senator in his state and was ranked fifth as the youngest senator in American history.
Bernie Sanders is a Jewish American and is currently a senator in Vermont. He appeared on the ballots as an independent in the previous years, but as he joined the democratic party in this 2020 election he is considered to be a democratic candidate. He called himself a “democratic socialist” and seeks to promote welfare guarantees for the middle and lower classes and favours protectionism in hisdiplomatic policies. Based on his policies he was often considered as the “JeremyCorbyn of the United States”. (They look alike indeed)
Davena also gave an introduction onElizabeth Warren, a libertarian from the democratic party. Warren was once a republican in Pennsylvania, and changedto the democratic party in 1996, also became the first female senator from Massachusetts. However, her election results did not seem to be satisfactory. In the Super Tuesday primary elections, Warren did not actually win in any state, including her own state Massachusetts and her hometown, Oklahoma.
In this discussion, someone raised an interesting question: Why are the candidates for presidential elections getting older in recent years? Joe Biden was even close to 80 years old in this 2020 election. We have come to the conclusion that in recent years, the demands on the political experience and financial situation of the candidates have become higher and tighter. Many candidates have to work in the Senate or the House of Representatives for many years before they can finally climb to the top.
We also made an interesting comparison between the US election and the previous British prime ministerial election. Unlike the traditional 21-day campaign in the United Kingdom, the presidential election in the United States are much more time-consuming than in the United Kingdom and usually lasts for 1 to 2 years. Elections in the United States also focus more on the personalities and standpoints of the candidates: how they stand on issues such as racism, gender equality, and the issue of abortion that has attracted a lot of attention in recent years will usually severely affect their support. This explains why elections in the US will usually bring out many trivial and gossipy news (e.g. Hillary Clinton ’s “Mail Gate” during the 2016 election and Donald Trump ’s sexist comments used by his competitors to attack him).
The students of politics club have had an opportunity to engage in a wonderful discussion and had benefited a lot from it.
- Report by 5009 Ekaterina
Food is a basic necessity to all humans. Long ago when there was no pans, ovens or germicides, looking for something edible in nature was a challenge. Our ancestors managed to survive with experience, then they came up with various ideas to turn raw meat of herbs into food, such as putting them over fire. These ideas and skills passed from one generation to the next, and each generation added their ideas and improved on the old ones. This is how the art of cooking is born.
Last Wednesday, the first of April, Metal 2 class had a class meeting, the topic is making Chiffon cakes. I did a demonstration with my camera opened, and shared some of my experience. I was very interested in making cakes, so I did some research and practiced a few times. It was harder than I thought, I failed most of the times, but I never gave up. Now I can make a Chiffon cake successfully!
I never thought of being a cook. Having some cooking skills is necessary for everyone, even if you don’t want to be a cook.
You might have on your parents to cook for you, but they can’t do it forever, sooner or later you will have to look after yourself. Restaurants and takeaways are not always available, and the food serving are not always safe. However if you cook for yourself, not only is the safety guaranteed, the taste of homemade food is something you can’t find in the outside foods. It is a very special taste, you can call it the taste of your own creation!?
Cooking helps to ease stress and release your tensions. Chopping up vegetables, baking bread or cakes, stirring a pot of soup or sauce, while you let your mind wander and drift away from the worries – this is what cooking is about. All these give a great sense of satisfaction. It will be even more gratifying when your dishes are praised by others.
It is not only your life that is improved by your cooking skills, also the ones around you, such as your parents and friends. After a stressful day of working or studying, a delicious meal is just what they need. Cooking is a skill that helps you attract the opposite sex. Who isn’t impressed with their partner who can cook well?The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach!
Conclusion: Cooking is a very useful skill and is fairly easy to learn, if you can cook you will never starve, even if you are far from your hometown.
- Report by 19056 Anny
It has been two months since the outbreak of the COVID-19 and the outbreak has reshaped the world to a great extent. On the previous PSHE session on Zoom, Tom and Vivian organized a discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on the entire world as well as ourpersonal lives.
In the first part of the online session, Tom invited several participants to talk about their opinions on the impact towards industries and the economy. One of the students mentioned about the stock market in the United States. He mentioned about the Dow Jones Index more than 900 points and S&P 500 recorded the biggest weekly drop since October 2008. Although the FED cut the interest close to zero, the lack of confidence over the economy of the investors is still causing great impact on the entire stock market. Other participants mentioned some of the typical industries that will suffer from the pandemic including airlines, retail and catering industry.
In the second part of the meeting, Vivian started with the topic of the impact of COVID-19 on our personal life. We mentioned about the pros and cons of online courses. Although online courses save time, it is not effective due to the lack of interaction between students and teachers and thus most of us would hope to get back to our campus. The pandemic also causes inconvenience in our daily lives, for example delivery and take-out services are not allowed to enter the buildings.
- Report by 19083 William
- Wednesday - Mathematics
Last week, I had the opportunity to join an AS Chemistry class. This morning I began with G1.1 Mathematics with Xia Laoshi, Miss Summer. We are using Teams today and the lesson began with the register and assisting the one or two students with connection issues. There were 26 of us in the lesson, so just one of our class was absent today.
Then we went onto the lesson, with the topic of trigonometry, beginning with a review of the homework from last time. We got the answer when the teacher asked one of the class and then Miss Summer explained to us the important details of how to get to the answer, sharing her screen and writing the working out so that we could all see it. She was using OneNote to write on with her computer because we can all access it and check back on what we did later.
She carefully explained what was important for us to remember when doing the calculation to avoid simple errors and why some solutions are not included in the required interval.
After explaining the homework, we went onto the main part of the lesson with the teacher telling us today’s objectives on how to solve cosine equations in an interval. The teacher gave a brief introduction and then let us try for ourselves first. While we worked, we could hear the birds singing outside. Then one of our classmates was asked to go through how she got the answer, with the teacher guiding her to help her get to the full solution. I think my classmates are smart. Thank you G1.1 Mathematics and Miss Summer for the lesson.
- Thursday - Biology
This morning I am joining G2 Biology with Yang Laoshi, Mr Back. We are using zoom today, but I am a few minutes late so have missed the register, but Mr Back can see the list of us on the group.
We are already into the lesson, looking at the digestive system with Mr Back asking us questions and showing the parts of the digestive system, starting with a simple question – “can a person drink or eat upside down?”. Our teacher allows us to also ask questions to help us understand the details. Now Mr Back is getting us to relate the idea of antagonistic muscles to other parts of the body, making the idea more relevant for us.
What I like about these online lessons is that the teacher asks us questions and with the microphones we can all hear clearly and hear the answers from our classmates – sometimes in the classroom when we are maybe at the back of the room we can’t always hear what people answer. Of course, we still have to use English when we are answering, and the teacher nicely reminds us if we slip – its good practice for us.
Listening to my classmates answering the questions as the teacher asks us in turn, each answer helps us building up the diagram of the digestive system using what we already know to add to a bigger picture.
For the longer and more difficult questions, Mr Back gives us more time so we can think and work through the ideas by ourselves before he calls us all back to the lesson to explain our answers. I think we have had more chances to ask and answer questions today and we can also use the chat function to type an extra question to the teacher if we don’t understand something.
When we go back through the whole diagram of all that we have been studying today, it is amazing how we have built up the ideas of such a complex system, piece by piece. The digestive system is very complex but all the little parts we have studied are simple and logical. Thank you G2.X1 Biology and Mr Back.
- Friday - English
This morning I have joined G1.8 English with Mr Kaisar. We are studying The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. We begin with some reading and explaining from the text to show the tone being used. This is the author’s attitude towards the subject matter being discussed, and because some of us are uncertain as to the definition, the teacher emphasises for us how important it is for us to understand this as it is different to other contexts.
We take it in turns for one of us to choose a passage in the text, read it and explain the author’s tone. We all follow along on the reading as we each have our own copies of the books and can find the same page. Then we discuss the details in the passage and what evidence there is that lets us know the tone. Thank you G1.8 English and Mr Kaisar.
- Article by Principal Mobsby
As the epidemic of the Coronavirus-Disease-2019(COVID-19)?is breaking out in China, we published an article “We Are With Wuhan x SCIE Red Cross | Donation” on January 25th, 2020 to do our part in fighting the virus and to call for an action.?
We opened our donation channel since then and now we are proud to say we have finished the donation to Wuhan. We also cooperated with SID Red Cross to help the organisations in need. Here we want to say thank you to those gave us your trust?and support.
- Overview of Our Donation
We have raised in total?12080.44 RMB?as?the result of people’s kind donations. The detail of the use of the money is as follows: 1200 surgical masks for Shenzhen Baoan Hospital, 1150 protective masks for Traffic Police Bureau of Shenzhen Public Security, 10 boxes of instant nuts and 20 boxes of Orion chocolate pie forShenzhen Union Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and1114.54 RMB for Shenzhen Red Cross. More details can be found in the table below.
- Account Statement
- Donation Details
- To the Hospital
If one says that this is a war against the coronavirus, then the hospitals are the battlefields of this war. Everyday the doctors, nurses and other medical attendants fight with the virus risking their own lives. We hope that they can leave a spare second for theirselves in this terrible war and enjoy the snacks we provided to?gain extra?energies.
????We hope the snacks can help them momentarily run away from their hardworking and relax for a while in order to keep on fighting in the future. We also wish that the masks we provided can be their armors and protect them from the bullets and arrows of the virus, and may the fierce warriors come back home safe and sound.
1. Donation of 1200 surgical masks to Shenzhen Baoan Hospital (5760 RMB, with the delivery fee covered by the president of SCIE Red Cross)
2. Donation of 10 boxes of instant nuts (1030 RMB, 30 packs per box) and 20 boxes of Orion chocolate pie (575.90 RMB, 30 packs per box)
From Shenzhen Baoan Hospital after receiving our donation
From Shenzhen Union Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology after receiving our donation
- To Traffic Police Bureau of Shenzhen Public Security
During this time of the corona virus outbreak, Traffic Police Bureau of Shenzhen Public Security did a fantastic job of detecting the temperature of the crew and passengers in key areas such as national highways and highway toll stations, and organized law enforcement personnel to set up traffic law enforcement epidemic prevention propaganda vehicles and repeatedly broadcast the epidemic prevention content at major traffic nodes.?
They used their flesh to build a wall that all citizens can stay safe behind. They are the silent guardians of the city who may experience higher risk of infections. We give out the face?masks?with hope to protect our protector safe from the virus.?
In cooperation with SID Red Cross, we have donated 1150 masks (4600 RMB) in total to Traffic Police Bureau of Shenzhen Public Security. SCIE Red Cross contributed 900 masks (3600 RMB) and SID Red Cross contributed 250 masks (1000 RMB). SID Red Cross has contributed to contact the supply of the masks and covered the delivery fee. They are also in charge of the communication with Traffic Police Bureau of Shenzhen Public Security.
We wish to give special thanks to SID Red Cross, we can never achieve such success without them. We are looking forward to future cooperation.
From Traffic Police Bureau of Shenzhen Public Security after receiving our donation
- To Shenzhen Red Cross
Shenzhen Red Cross has begun to raise fund from the society after the COVID-19 outbreak since January 27th, 2020. They keep updating every sum of money received and spent to make sure their financial status is completely transparent to the public. After internal discussions, we decided to donate our remaining money to Shenzhen Red Cross in hope that the money will take everyone’s kindness and fly away to help more people in need.
Directional donation to Shenzhen Red Cross 1114.54 RMB.
From Shenzhen Red Cross after receiving our donation
- To the Days We Fight Together Hand in Hand
It has been more than three?months since the outbreak of the corona virus, it has also been a long while since we started to raise funds. To many of us it was a spark in the desert that has lighted up our soul. It has been an honor to participate in this. I felt more connected with the society, that our hearts are beating in the same beat. I am honored to contribute my power in fighting against the corona virus.
“So relieved and yet so attached”. I am so relieved because I did not fail everybody’s hard work; so attached because I was so touched for I experienced warmth of hearts and the sense of commitment. I want to do more, to contribute more, to share some more.
Here I want to say thank you to every student member, every teacher and everyone else who helped with us, SCIE Red Cross.
In the end, I want to finish this with my appreciation to all the doctors, nurses and other medical attendants. You are angels in white coat, you are the protectors of our lives. At the moment of the epidemic of the corona virus, we should be more united than ever and there will be nothing in our way!
When the epidemic is over,
I know I wouldn’t bother.
I then shall see thee
Under a sakura tree.
- Article by publicity unit
This article is about how SCIE teachers conduct?online teaching during this?special period. Students described how their teachers?held Zoom meetings, set homeworks, mark essays and give individual feedbacks, thus help them prepare for real exams.
- History Class
For AL history syllabus, we have paper 3 Sources Paper taught by Ms. Lisa, and also Paper 4 the Essay Paper taught by Mr. Julian.
Mr. Julian had already given us Zoom meetings to discuss our questions regard to our focus now on Stalin’s Russia. In the Zoom meeting, we’re free to ask any questions regard to the past content and also the past exam papers. Mr. Julian also set us work to finish in his Zoom meeting, which I think is very efficient.
Mr. Julian had also made detailed PPTs and uploaded them on Moodle for us to use as reference in completing our notes on Stalin’s Russia. Along with these PPTs, there are also essays to finish.
After we complete the essay and sent it back to Mr. Julian, he will mark the essay and give us personal feedback based on our content. This is really beneficial as the Mock exams are coming, and we’re preparing for our real CIE exams.
Ms. Lisa had also held Zoom meetings with us, and in her meetings she discussed the different approaches in analyzing the Holocaust. In the meeting, we could ask her questions regarding to different approaches.
Ms. Lisa had also assigned us two Practice Papers to finish. We would complete them under timed conditions. After we sent back to her, she would mark them and provide us with the detailed feedback.
Also, there are some online work that we need to complete during the regular lesson time. These tasks help us to identify features that are common in individual approaches of the Holocaust.
In conclusion, I think the A2 History department has done an excellent job in providing us with sufficient educational opportunities during this difficult time. There are sufficient tasks organized and the Zoom meetings are efficient.
- Sociology Class
First I was set homework on a essay question that relates to our current topic. Because it is a rather new topic, so I was a bit unsure. Therefore I put my questions at the end of my essay.?Mr Gary marked the question the next day and send back the homework with marks and answers with my questions, which clarifies the structuring issue that I was struggling with!
Then we had a zoom meeting which lasted for an hour. Mr Richard opens the lesson by recommending some additional resources such as books that we may find useful for our new topic. Then we move on to discuss the homework essay, and Mr Richard shared my screen on zoom where I go through in bullet point of my essay. Then Mr Richard discussed the ways of improvement with all of us, while we can see me physically making changes on the screen. Then we discussed openly on any problems we had when writing essays and reviewing content, where everyone unmute their microphones and asked.??
- Geography Class
Rachel set us assignment through mainly three ways: making notes on relevant topic;?review knowledge on Seneca;?finish the past paper?practice.?We are supposed to post our notes and past papers on?Moodle forum and assignment section.
We are provided several access to keep in touch with her to ask questions: she set up WeChat Group for each class separately to facilitate?interaction; also, she uses Teams to have video class with us; we are also?accessible to her email.
- Computer Science
There are three ways for conducting computer science class:
Online Video lesson using Teams.
Use of Whiteboard – where all participants can contribute to the diagram.
Live Marking: Teacher discusses and displays the mark scheme by sharing the screen while students mark on their Online Class notebooks.
- Music Class
Ms.Molly is conducting a music class. It’s really great and interesting.
Starting from 14th Jan 2020, Oxbridge began to release offers respectively. From the information at? this time, we have 8 Oxford and 22 Cambridge offers.
22 SCIE students received conditional offers from Cambridge: Stanford Yao Shun, Kim Deng Jianping, Catherine Ngai Kayan, Charlotte Yu Zhixuan, Jethro Su Ziwei, Anna Zhou Shanzhu, Aaron Huang Yike, Clifford Hong Chenfeng, Sylvia Liu Yazhe, Charles Zhang Zhuoran, George Wu Xinming, Rose Luo Sujing, Leo Su Haochen, Rocky Yu Runzhe, Patricia Chen Peixin, Alexis Zeng Jiayi, Charles Wei Kaungyi, Lily Wang Xinyue, Wendy Cheng Peiwen, Walton Yan Yining, Alan Yufei Dong, Franklin Wang Shiyi.
8 students received conditional offers from Oxford: Lareina Liu Leyan, Collin Feng Siheng, Kelly Xing Keer, Jacky Jiang Yi, Charles Wang Zihao, Maggie Wang Chuanqi, Tina Chen Yuming, David Wu Yutian.
Besides the increase on numbers of offers, students received offers from a variety of majors. SCIE students have still remained their advantages in Science including Natural Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics etc. We can believe that there will be many future scientists and engineers among them.
At the same time, SCIE students made another breakthrough in the humanities area, gaining admissions to majors such as Philosophy, Law, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Classics, Human, Social and Political Science (HSPS) … Albeit these majors have very high requirements for students’ English ability, learning horizons and humanistic qualities, these new fields are being conquered by SCIE students who always dare to take the challenge.
Meanwhile, we would also like to highlight the admission results of Economics related majors. Lareina Liu Leyan stands out because of her admissions to Economics and Management major in The University of Oxford. Judging from the official undergraduate admissions report released by The University of Oxford, the difficulty of recruitment to this major ranked first at The University of Oxford and the average admission rate in the world last year was 6% only. Merely 10 international students have been admitted outside the UK this year.
Rose Luo Sujing and George Wu Xinming were admitted to the ace major of Economics at The University of Cambridge. Charles Zhang Zhuoran was admitted to Land Economics at The University of Cambridge.
Patricia Chen Peixin was admitted to Philosophy at The University of Cambridge.? She is the second SCIE student accepted by the Department of Philosophy in Cambridge after Paris Yu Le who graduated in 2016.
Jacky Jiang Yi received an offer from Computer Science at The University of Oxford.? According to Times Higher Education World University Rankings of Computer Science 2020, The University of Oxford again tops the list. Computer Science is the second most difficult major to apply for, after Economics and Management. The acceptance rate was 7% last year.
Tina Chen Yuming has been accepted to study law at the University of Oxford. The high social status of lawyers and the bright prospect of employment makes the competition of getting into law major very fierce. It is also among the ten most difficult majors to get in at Oxford.
Congratulations to all students who received offers from Oxbridge. You really deserve the great success.
The obstacles and pressures you went through during the application process is a precious treasure in your life which makes you stronger. Some students succeeded and got into their dream school to chase their dreams; some failed for now, but they are still confident with their future and preparing for the next success; some took a big risk of being rejected, but still tried their best to apply and were well-prepared for the rejection. As we all know, receiving the offer is just a start. We believe everyone will create your own excellence. Walk the way that you want to walk and do the things that you truly like.