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China Thinks Big Competition

March 30, 2015

China Thinks Big Competition

Pristine Shanghai, a team of ten SHSID students from grade 11 won the Third Place for Team Participants in China Thinks Big Research and Innovation Competition, 2015.

China Thinks Big (CTB) is a nation-wide research competition held at Harvard Shanghai Center. It attracts hundreds of teams from different high schools in China every year. Each team chooses a topic from 9 fields: technology, education, health & safety, sustainability, arts & culture, humanities, ethical reasoning, social sciences, globalization & community. By answering the essay questions and turning response paper online, students “think big”, and through writing project proposal, doing research, students “do small”. During the semi-final and final, students should conduct debate, pitch (both in English and Chinese) and present their results and models in “innovation fair”, meanwhile answering challenge questions from judges and other teams.

Worrying about the future environment, Pristine Shanghai hopes to improve the rubbish categorization and recycling in cities, so they conducted a research, designed a new system of categorizing rubbish in 6 categories and used math modeling to analyze the issue to determine where to put rubbish bins on a certain street. Pristine Shanghai was selected as one of the 65 teams for the semi-final. It beat the remaining 53 teams in semi-final on Mar 21st, due to the excellent debate skills and teamwork ability of team leader Pok Wah Chan 11(1) and other two members Jonathan Gao 11(1), Jin Igata 11(1). In the final round on Mar 22nd, the team Pristine Shanghai showed excellent presentations skills were highly praised by the judges. Finally the team won the third place.Congratulations to Pristine Shanghai！

(Written by Baiting Xu and Dandan Zhou Picture by Baiting Xu and Dandan Zhou)