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![]() It is not very often that you can say “hey, I went to a really wacky and fun academic competition last weekend”, right? Well that is exactly what 33 students from FIS did in March when they entered the Hong Kong round of the World Scholars Cup (see www.scholarscup.org ) We started our learning journey in January, meeting every week to ask questions on the theme of an imperfect world. We looked at areas such as crime & justice, disease & public health, cheating and what happens when states falter. We asked such questions as: Are democracies better states than non-states?
1. Debating: i.e Resolve – Hong Kong would survive a Zombie Apocolypse 2. Scholars Challenge – 150 multiple choice questions on the 5 areas of study 3. Essay writing – write a persuasive essay 4. Scholars Bowl – a fun team game on clickers in a multiple choice format with different points for each question (see example opposite) As you can see everyone did well with medals coming for everyone from the various sections of the challenges. Here are all the students that took part and their best results: Senior Section (250 students) Debasmita Bhattacharya 6th overall, 1st place special challenge area, 3rd place team bowl Charlotte Williams : 1st place challenge History, 3rd place team bowl David Vacek : 3rd place team bowl, 7th place team debate Clement Francony 10th place team debate, 5 Honor medals inc. individual writing Luca Lit & Charlotte Rushton :Both 10th place team debate Nazir Ashraf, Bertram Lau & Zara Denham Matthew Scholar, Hadrian Wong & Josef Guillon Honor Medal Team Bowl Chloe Cheung Winner of the Di Vinci award Sho Gierszten 6th place Di Vinci award Christy Chu Honor medal in the Di Vinci award ![]() Junior section ( 200 students) So let’s do even better in 2017 FIS! As you can see, everyone gets one of these creatures too: That’s right – an ALPACA!!!! So look for the sign-up sheet when we get back after Christmas 2016 and join in the fun. Need an extra incentive? If you qualify for the World Finals we will try to organize for teams from FIS to attend…….Bangkok this year……where will it be in June 2017?????? So as Jerry says……….. PWAAAAAH! Mr. Williams
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