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，持續5個多月的美國學術十項全能USAD全球總決賽落下帷幕，中國賽區共有數百支隊伍參賽，群雄逐鹿，戰況空前。其中深圳曼徹斯通城堡外籍人員子女學校（以下簡稱：曼校）的“皇家一英里全球精英學院”（以下簡稱：皇家一英里）的六位同學首次參加USAD競賽，便在賽場上大放異彩。獲得4項團隊獎和14項個人獎，其中團隊總分獲得華南區一等獎。

首次參賽即獲USAD總決賽華南區一等獎

作為美國最權威的高中生綜合學術團隊競賽平臺，USAD競賽含金量堪比學術界的“奧斯卡”，被譽為通往世界名校的學術挑戰。該競賽包含十個科目，其中有七個客觀題考試科目，分別為藝術、經濟、文學、數學、音樂、科學、社會科學；另外有三個主觀考試科目：演講、面試與寫作。每年的比賽都有一個特定的主題，所有的備賽學習都是圍繞著主題而進行。

△Michael，Remy，Olivia在比賽中的團隊作戰

值得一提的是，因為參賽團隊需要集合水平旗鼓相當的六到九位同學，不少國際學校的高中生需要跨校聯合，九人同赴海南現場參賽，選取六位最佳成績參與評比。深圳曼?；始乙挥⒗飳W院這支參賽隊平均年齡只有十三四歲，在沒有候補隊員，以六敵九，且在線參賽的情況下，取得如此佳績，表現實在可圈可點。選手們在USAD中的出色表現，充分體現了曼校全人教育的優勢——學術基礎扎實，知識面廣，心理素質強。

首次參賽便躋身前10%

“曼校谷愛凌”立志推廣中國古建筑文化

△Olivia被同學們稱作”曼校谷愛凌“

擅長足球、籃球和賽艇……Olivia因為運動細胞發達，學習優異、性格活潑被同學戲稱為“曼校谷愛凌”。作為本次大賽的團隊組長，她首次參賽成績便進入全國前10%，獲得了大賽個人新秀獎。

△Olivia在比賽中回答問題

Olivia表示，在所有比賽環節中，她準備最充分的是面試和演講，演講題目選擇了“如果能對世界進行改變”，撰寫演講稿時，特意請教了學校外籍老師。到了面試環節，評審的問題是“你對自己的未來有什么規劃”。Olivia一直對建筑很感興趣，她回答道，我未來要在全世界將中國古建筑的文化發揚光大。

△Olivia同學領獎瞬間

“USAD比賽中有關數學和經濟學方面的知識，都是平時上課時曾學過的內容，整場考試感覺很輕松，甚至是覺得是在降維打擊。”獲得華南區最高分的Deo，則從小便走國際教育路線，曾輾轉在香港、深圳等地的知名國際學校就讀，擅長打高爾夫球。去年通過考核后，順利進入曼徹斯通城堡學校的“皇家一英里”獎學金項目。

△拿過PGA少年組冠軍的Deo同學再次代表曼校奪冠

“皇家一英里的學習充滿了挑戰性和趣味性，老師們能充分調動自己的學習潛力?！痹诖舜伪荣愔羞x擇了USAD難度最高模式的團隊成員Ken提到，此次比賽對參賽人員的學術水平要求很高。恰好18、19世紀是物理、化學等基礎學科飛速發展的時期，比賽中會問到科學的發展歷程、某科學原理的創始人是誰之類比較生僻的問題，需要學生掌握跨學科、多領域的基礎知識。

△Ken同學

融合與創新 致力打造一所

最懂中國的純英式寄宿制國際學校

△深圳曼校畢業生

據了解，這所擁有近200年歷史的純英式寄宿制國際學校，在落子中國后經過五年不斷地探索和實踐，將英式全人教育理念及中國傳統教學的優勢相融合，逐漸開辟出一條“小而美，專而精、純而優”的“曼校路徑”，并逐漸走出了一條“國際教育本土化,本土教育國際化”的道路。

無論學生來自哪里，處于什么年齡段，學習背景如何，他們都能在曼校找到適合自己的學習發展路徑。

從校園走向世界，曼校的學生在各大國際比賽中屢創佳績，將合作、求知、韌性、國際世界……的曼校價值觀帶向世界，便是這所純正英式國際學校踐行全人教育理念的最好佐證。

秉承“讓平凡的孩子更優秀，優秀的孩子更卓越”的教育愿景和全人教育的教育理念，我們也相信將有更多曼校學子走向國際舞臺，走進國際事務，建立國際視野，成為一名德才兼備的世界公民。

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