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CTB Competition

May 2, 2015

CTB Competition

Thinking back, China Thinks Big wasn’t only a tough competition for me, but for the rest of my teammates as well. Every deadline of the competition was so closely packed with each other, and the only way the workload was finished was through the cooperation of my teammates. Our team — Pristine Shanghai — endured half a year of vigorous work, mathematical modeling, social surveys, and bilingual debates and presentation to earn third place in the entire competition. Although the competition has ended, our campaign hasn’t. We are looking forward to a cleaner and more beautiful shanghai with the help of the crew of Pristine Shanghai and the cooperation of the government.

Acquiring the certificates definitely made all of my teammates happy, however we do also miss the process of China Thinks Big. Coming up with the first thought of our campaign was definitely and unforgettable experience. While our team was walking on the streets one day, we stubbled upon the problem that most people in our society not having basic knowledge about the proper disposal of rubbish. This led to the majority of trash being incorrectly categorized into different rubbish bins. If this problem was left unfixed, Shanghai would definitely be traveling down an unsightly road. Because of this thought in our minds, our team decided to come up with a campaign that could efficiently upgrade rubbish bins and announce the proper use of them, attracting more people to correctly disposing their trash. After looking into our chosen campaign topic, we realized that there was so much more underneath the skin of the problem than we expected. We analyzed foreign countries’ policies, and social surveys and were shocked as we researched about the ways that other countries dealt with similar problems that our team was trying to fix for Shanghai. However through the cooperation of Pristine Shanghai, we easily overcome the intense research and workload that was needed to be done for our campaign. We made our own survey questions and handed them out to the public; our targeted age range was from young adults and middle-age individuals. We invented six kinds of different rubbish bins that dispose of six different categories of trash. We added in innovative designs, and easy to use procedures to try to interact with the targeted age range of society. Not to mention, we also used mathematical modeling to correctly plot down areas where a certain category of rubbish bin is needed, undoubtedly decreasing expenses of our campaign. For the rest of the age groups, we used educational videos to teach society about the knowledge they needed to learn about the correct disposing of rubbish.

The issues that our team is trying to fix for Shanghai is just the tip of the iceberg for environmental problems for China. I can ensure that in the future when I think back about this experience, I won’t forget the teammates that put in the extra effort to prepare for the competition; the midnight important notices for the competition; the sleepless nights of my teammates. But most importantly, I won’t forget the passion my team and I had for carrying out the mission, of making Shanghai a more beautiful place, that we started. As time drew closer and closer to the final stages of the competition, and at the same time the school exams, we might have thought about giving up; about plagiarism. However, under the encouragement of our team leader, we successfully accomplished our set out goal, and ended up earning our rightful place as one of the top teams in the competition.

Lastly, I would like to thank each individual in my team for their cooperation, and effort. I would also like to that Ms. Zhang, Ms. Xu, and Ms. Zhou for their guidance throughout the competition. Thanks to Shanghai High School for providing us with their assistance. Once again, thank you everyone!

(Written by Chen Bohua)