Recently, ASJ High School students excelled in the preliminary stations of Business Professionals of America, The National Economics Challenge 2024, with 14 and 20 students earning the award's honourable mentions and advancing to the next stage of the competition, respectively.
Business Professionals of America is officially accredited by the U.S. Department of Education (USED) and the Career Training and Teaching Organization (CTSO), and is officially certified by the U.S. Department of Education and recommended by the Alliance of Secondary School Principals as a global business academic programme for secondary school students targeting business literacy.
BPA is a highly influential and comprehensive business practice activity, which provides students with links to the real business world and the elite network of academia and industry through real industry topics, diversified practical project experiences, rigorous disciplinary knowledge system, and peer exchanges, so as to cultivate secondary school students' global business mindset, vision, and comprehensive literacy, and to enhance their leadership, professionalism, and ability of analysing and solving real business problems. It also enhances students' leadership, professionalism and real-life business problem-solving skills, and helps them explore a wide range of possible career paths and life choices.
The National Economics Challenge is one of the series of events organised by the SKT Finance, Business and Economics Literacy Institute. Since 2000, more than 20,000 young economists have participated in the event every year. To date, NEC has reached more than 400 schools nationwide, benefiting thousands of finance and business students, and is highly regarded by Wall Street financial institutions and leading universities around the world for its academic value and the academic skills demonstrated by students during the event.
NEC aims to stimulate students' interest in the field of economics through diversified and rich study programmes, real-world activities and peer-to-peer exchanges, and to cultivate students' abilities in data analysis, critical thinking, rational decision-making and problem-solving, so as to solve real-world problems and shape unlimited possibilities for the future.NEC is an annual academic event for students of economics, and the cradle of the future political, business and financial elites. NEC is an annual academic event for economics students and a cradle for future political, business and financial elites.
I would like to thank Mr Kaen Fan and my teammates for this award. Firstly, I would like to thank Mr Kaen Fan and my teammates for their guidance, Mr Kaen was the inspiration for our project, and at the beginning of the project, when we had no idea what to do, it was Mr Kaen who gave us the light of thought and technical guidance. If Mr Kaen is the light-bearer who disperses the fog, then our teammates who persevered all the way and were not afraid of setbacks are the wings of the eagle flying high. It was the teammates' strong belief and hard work during the preparation of the project that revitalised the whole team and gave us the confidence to go on and finally win the award. I sincerely thank my teammates for being there at 3am, it was an honour to work alongside you.
Through this BPA competition I felt the inspiring team spirit, even though we encountered different difficulties during the process, such as different opinions, division of labour and time problems, we overcame the difficulties and cooperated with each other. I would like to thank my friends for their dedication, teachers for their careful teaching and the school for providing a good platform for us, and I hope our team will achieve good results in the national competition.
Participating in the BPA competition is not just about competing for a place, but also about improving literacy and the ability to solve practical problems. The team's unexpected success was due to the coaching and help from our economics teacher before the competition, as well as the school's improvement and maturity in recommending students to go to more competitions. Of course, the success of the team is also due to the efforts of every member of the team.
Through the challenge of this economic competition and business competition, we have not only gained a deeper understanding and improved our professional knowledge, but also practiced our teamwork and problem-solving skills, and we hope to achieve better results by fulfilling our potential in the next stage of the competition. At the same time, we are deeply proud, honoured and responsible, and hope that we can continue to improve ourselves in our future study and life, and contribute a part of our strength to the economic development of our country and the Greater Bay Area.
Congratulations to the students in the competition to get good results, in the guidance process, I found each student's strengths, in the process of playing the students' imagination, in the theoretical knowledge to guide the students to summarise. I believe that students in this process has benefited a lot, the school and teachers hope that students in the subsequent competition to achieve satisfactory results, cheers.
The competitions were very tight and challenging, requiring students to have both a solid theoretical foundation and the ability to flexibly apply their economic knowledge.ASJ students overcame the difficulties and challenges, gave play to their unique and innovative thinking and specialised knowledge of economic disciplines, and cooperated with their teammates to perform well, and eventually gained leaps and bounds of progress and achievements in the two competitions.
