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World Scholar's Cup
Daniel Berdichevsky speaking at the 2009 World Scholar's Cup finals
Type:International education competition
Founded:2006
Founder:Daniel Berdichevsky
Headquarters:Los Angeles, California
Current champion:Raffles Girls' School (Secondary), Singapore
Website:http://scholarscup.org

The World Scholar's Cup is an international team academic competition with students participating from over 30 countries. The first World Finals for the competition took place May 25–26, 2007, in Seoul, South Korea. The competition was founded by DemiDec, in particular by Daniel Berdichevsky, DemiDec's president and the former all-time highest scorer in the United States Academic Decathlon, in 2006. Other directors of the program include Ross Otto and Brent Russo. It is growing widely in popularity and recognition and is said to to be poised to become the World's First and Premier Academic Competition. The World Scholar's Cup has attracted what it calls "a global community of future scholars and leaders", and promotes that it allows participants to "discover strengths and skills you never knew you had." Teams of 3 compete in challenges ranging from Debates to Writing events. The Mascot of the World Scholar's Cup is the Alpaca, which appears on each book and is also on the logo.

Competition Format

A team for the World Scholar's Cup is composed of two or three students, usually but not always from the same school. Teams participate in regional and global tournaments.[1] Both high school and middle school versions of the program take place simultaneously. In 2010, the World Scholar's Cup will host its first tournament for university students. In a growing attempt to forge closer bonds between international students, it promotes the idea of an Open Finals, allowing students from any team or country to register for the World Finals.

4 events comprise the World Scholar's Cup: the Scholar's Challenge, Essay, Team Debate, and the Scholar's Bowl. All testable material for these events comes from the designated curriculum for the year, which includes some areas of independent research, known as Directed Research Areas.. Team scores are determined by adding the two highest scores in each area, thus allowing some specialization and also permitting teams of two to successfully compete. Two new events have been added since 2009, the Scholar's Scavenge and the Debate Showcase and Championship.

Curriculum

The curriculum includes in six subjects, which may vary each year. The year's curriculum is available for free. A typical Scholar's Cup curriculum contains science, history, literature, visual arts/music, math, and economics. For the 2010 year, Mathematics was replaced with Psychology of War to better address the year's theme. Each competition year incorporates a new theme.

2006-2007: The Ancient World
2007-2008: The Frontier
2008-2009: The Fall of Empires
2009-2010: A World Divided

Scholar's Challenge

The Scholar's Challenge consists of 150 multiple choice questions (twenty-five in each subject). Students have 120 minutes to complete these questions at a competition, and may therefore appropriate their time as deemed necessary.

Scholar's Bowl

The Scholar's Bowl is a buzzer round when teams can buzz in their answer when the question is flashed on the screen within 17 seconds. The members of each team work together to answer questions in the live-action tournament. Questions from each of the six subject areas are featured in the Scholar's Bowl.

Debate

In the debate event, teams are pitted directly against one another in a debate similar to a modified version of parliamentary debate. Teams are given a resolution and sides (Affirmative or Negative), and have 15 minutes to prepare for the debate. All members of each team take turns speaking.

Essay

The World Scholar's Cup's essay event is similar to the Document Based Question featured on AP Exams. Students are required to synthesize the primary-source documents provided with their background knowledge of the Scholar's Cup curriculum in order to effectively compose an essay.

Scholar's Scavenge

The Scholar's Scavenge aims to allow participants to mingle as teams are broken up and mixed with other teams and are given tasks to complete in which they are supposed to interact with the local people too. The 2010 Scholar's Scavenge will be held in the Shanghai World Expo.

Debate Showcase and Championship

The Debate Showcase and Championship is a platform for the top-ranked individual speakers from different schools to face off in front of the rest of the participants.

2007 Round

The 2007 World Finals for the World Scholar's Cup was held in the English village in Seoul, South Korea, and was the first ever global tournament for this competition. Teams from Australia, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States participated. The testing events included the history of the ancient world; Hesse's Siddhartha and the poetry of England; general mathematics; the science of anatomy; and general economics.

2007 Results

Overall Champions:

1. Eastern US All Stars

2. Western US All Stars

3. Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies II

Debate Champions:

1. Western US All Stars

2. Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies II

Scholar's Challenge Champions:

1. Eastern US All Stars

2. Western US All Stars

3. 2006 US All Stars

Scholar's Quiz Champions:

1. Eastern US All Stars

2. 2006 All Stars

3. Taft High School

2008 Round

The 2008 World Finals for the World Scholar's Cup took place in Korea at the YBM English Village on May 30-June 1, 2008.

2008 Results

Overall Team Champions:

1. Canyon Del Oro HS (team 2)

2. Hankuk Academy (team 1)

3. Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (team 7)

4. Canyon Del Oro HS (team 1)

5. Raffles Girls' School

Debate Team Champions:

1. Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (team 5)

2. Canyon Del Oro HS (team 1)

3. Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (team 1)

4. Canyon Del Oro HS (team 2)

5. Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (team 2)

Scholar's Challenge Champions:

1. Raffles Girls' School

2. Nanyang Girls' (team 2)

3. Canyon Del Oro HS (team 2)

4. Nanyang Girls' (team 1)

5. Canyon Del Oro HS (team 1)

Scholar's Quiz Champions:

1. Hankuk Academy (team 1)

2. Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (team 7)

3. Canyon Del Oro HS (team 2)

4. Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (team 3)

5. Canyon Del Oro HS (team 1)

Essay Team Champions:

1. Canyon Del Oro HS (team 2)

2. Hankuk Academy (team 3)

3. British School of New Delhi (team 2)

4. Raffles Institution (team 1)

5. Hankuk Academy (team 1)

Individual Debate Champions:[2]

1. Nikhil Srinidhi (ACS 5)

2. Jonathan Tan (ACS 6)

3. Benjamin Ferell (Canyon del Oro HS 1)

4. Taylor Cleland (Canyon del Oro HS 2)

4. Ernest Tan (ACS 5)

5. Daisy Ji (K International 2)

Individual Overall Champions:

1. Benjamin Ferell (Canyon Del Oro HS 1)

2. Taylor Cleland (Canyon Del Oro HS 2)

3. Nicolas Baird (Canyon Del Oro HS 2)

4. Goh Su Fen (Raffles Girls' School)

5. Edward Flores (Montebello HS)

2009 Round

The 2009 World Finals for the World Scholar's Cup took place in Singapore at Nanyang Girls' High School on June 13–14, 2009. Students were tested on the science of sustainable development; Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and a selection of poetry; the economics of spectacular collapse; the fall of historical empires; and the art of decadence and decline which included the film Serenity.

2009 Results

Senior division

Overall Team Champions:

1. Raffles Girls' School 64

2. Raffles Girls' School 62

3. Raffles Institution 65

4. Raffles Institution 66

5. Daewon Foreign Language High School 48


Individual Overall Champions

1. Zhang Mengshi (Raffles Girls 64)

2. Tay Zong Min (Raffles Girls 62)

3. Tan Wei Qing (Raffles Girls 64)

4. John Choo (Raffles Institution 65)

5. Amos Leow (Raffles Institution 65)

Junior division

Overall Team Champions:

1. Raffles Girls' School 16

2. Raffles Girls' School 17

3. Raffles Institution 18

4. Raffles Institution 19

5. Raffles Girls' School 15

Individual Overall Champions:

1. Cherie Seah (Raffles Girls' 16)

2. Amanda Choo (Raffles Girls' 17)

3. Phang Min Ee (Raffles Girls' 17)

4. Jacqueline Khor (Raffles Girls' 16)

5. Chng Jin (Raffles Institution 18)

2010 Round

The 2010 round of the World Scholar's Cup was held from June 18–20 in Concordia International School, Shanghai, China. The theme was " A World Divided" Author Guy Gavriel Kay was invited to give a speech and Raffles Girls School took most of the awards.

2011 Round

The 2011 round of the World Scholar's Cup will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The film to be studied is Forrest Gump.

References

  1. ^ World Scholar's Cup
  2. ^ http://www.scholarscup.org/results/ievent

External links

  • World Scholar's Cup - The official website of the World Scholar's Cup
  • Scores - Detailed Scores for Scholar's Cup competitions
  • Discussion - Discussion regarding the World Scholar's Cup
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