The NEC National Economics Challenge is organized by the Council for Economic Education and is widely supported and recognized by prominent financial institutions on Wall Street and top universities in the United States. Each year, over 20% of the finalists in the NEC Finals are admitted to elite universities such as Harvard, Yale, and Stanford.

The UK Chemistry Assessment (also known as the UK Chemistry Olympiad, abbreviated as UKChO) is hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), one of the most influential chemical academic organizations in the world. It has developed into the longest-running, most academically rigorous, and most influential high school chemistry competition in the UK, aiming to provide an extension of the school chemistry curriculum for outstanding high school students and to cultivate their chemical thinking and abilities.

The BPHO, or British Physics Olympiad, is a series of competitions that includes various difficulty levels tailored for students of different age groups. This series encompasses the IPC (Intermediate Physics Challenge), SPC (Senior Physics Challenge), as well as BPhO Round 1 and BPhO Round 2.

The BPHO is highly regarded in the UK and is recognized internationally, particularly for applications to science and engineering programs (such as physics, engineering, materials science, etc.) at prestigious universities in the UK and worldwide.

The “Physics Bowl” is an influential high school physics competition, officially known as the American High School Physics Examination, organized by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). This organization includes a significant number of members who are physics professors from prestigious universities across the U.S. With over 30 years of history, the competition sees participation from more than 500 renowned high schools across 11 countries each year. Students who earn awards in this competition gain a substantial academic advantage when applying for undergraduate science and engineering programs in the U.S., Canada, and the UK.

Since introducing the Physics Bowl to China in 2015, approximately 4,000 high school students from across the country participate each year, with both the number of participating schools and students steadily increasing each year.

The British Biology Olympiad (BBO) is organized by one of the most influential biological organizations in the world, the Royal Society of Biology. As one of the longest-running and most prestigious science competitions in the UK, the BBO attracts nearly 10,000 high school students each year to compete for rankings. Each year, exceptional students are selected through the BBO to form the UK national team, which represents the country in the International Biology Olympiad (IBO).

The Euclid Mathematics Competition is a mathematics competition held by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Canada for high school students worldwide. It is the most recognized mathematics competition in Canada and holds significant value. Known as the “TOEFL of the mathematics world,”the Euclid Mathematics Competition attracts countless students from science and technology fields every year.The organizer, the University of Waterloo, has Canada’s only and North America’s largest Faculty of Mathematics.

The IMMC International Mathematical Modeling Challenge is an international and innovative

mathematical modeling competition aimed at high 

school students worldwide. It is co-hosted by COMAP (the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications) in the United States and Neo Union, a Hong Kong educational organization. The IMMC aims to encourage participants to apply mathematical modeling to explore and solve important real-world problems, promote mathematical modeling education, and enhance high school students' core competencies and key abilities in technological innovation.

The American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) is a math competition for high school students that has been held since 1983. The exam consists of 15 problems and lasts for 3 hours. Students who score in the top 2.5% of the AMC 10 or the top 5% of the AMC 12 are eligible to participate in the AIME. The AIME serves as the second level in the selection process for the U.S. Math Olympiad team, with top performers qualifying for the next level, the USA Math Olympiad (USAMO).

The AIME goes beyond what the AMC 10 and AMC 12 can offer, aiming to provide further challenges and opportunities for students with exceptional mathematical talent to recognize their abilities. Like other competitions, it serves as a pathway for developing mathematical skills and enhancing interest in mathematics. Its true value lies in the preparation before the exam and the subsequent reflection and discussion of the problems afterward. Additionally, U.S. students who perform exceptionally well in the AIME are invited to participate in the USA Math Olympiad (USAMO).

The Cambridge Outstanding Learner Awards are a

set of awards presented by Cambridge Assessment International Education, recognizing students who achieve exceptional results in Cambridge exams worldwide. The “Top in China” award is given to

students who achieve the highest standard mark

in a single subject across China.

The iGEM Competition is an annual global synthetic biology event for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students founded by MIT in 2003. iGEM Competition gives students the opportunity to push the boundaries of synthetic biology by solving everyday problems facing the world. Multidisciplinary teams work together to design, build, test and measure systems of their own design using interchangeable biological components and standard molecular biology techniques.

Two VMA students won global gold medals in their respective teams, Star Mu for her project on Petalglow, which provides a unique mental health solution, and Eva Chen for her project related to kaempferol.

HOSA is the officially recognized global platform for student activities in biomedical and health sciences, certified by the U.S. Department of Education and the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). Since its establishment over 40 years ago, it has impacted more than 2.5 million students worldwide. The HOSA China National Finals offers 11 CE competition categories and 4 ATC fundamental subject competitions. Winners of each category can advance to the HOSA Global Finals.

The Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) is an annual programming competition jointly organized by the Canadian Computing Association (CCA) and the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. The CCC aims to spark students' interest in computer science and programming while developing their algorithmic thinking and problem-solving skills. Since its establishment in 1981, the CCC has become one of Canada’s most influential high school programming competitions.

The Canadian Physics CAP Exam is part of the

Canadian Physics Olympiad activities, also known

as the CAP High School Prize Exam. It serves as the

first round of selection for the Canadian national

physics team. Organized by the Canadian Association

of Physicists (CAP) in collaboration with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia, the exam targets high school students with problems that exceed standard classroom knowledge, emphasizing logical and creative thinking. The CAP is a recognized authority in the field of physics in Canada, comprising over 1,700 physicists from academia, government, and industry.

The Waterloo Physics SIN Exam, also known as the Waterloo Newton Physics Competition, was established in 1969 and is hosted by the Department of Physics at the University of Waterloo. It is a long-standing and influential international physics competition aimed at inspiring high school students' interest in physics. The SIN competition places a greater emphasis on fostering students' critical and creative thinking skills. Many of the open-ended and unstructured questions help students enhance their thinking abilities through practice.

The IGB Global Earth Science Competition is a geography competition organized by the International Academic Challenge Committee. It is one of the most influential academic activities for primary and secondary schools in the United States and serves as the selection event for the U.S. National Team for the International Geography Olympiad. Each year, over 50,000 students from more than a thousand schools across North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania participate in this event. The mission of IGB’s organizers is to reward academic achievement by providing innovative, exciting, fair, and knowledge-based competition opportunities to students around the world.

The NOL competition is responsible for selecting and sending qualified candidates for the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) within China. The purpose of the NOL competition is not to test the contestants' knowledge of linguistics but to encourage them to use their logical reasoning and divergent thinking skills to solve language puzzles they have never encountered before, deriving the correct answers through reasoning.

We are delighted to see that more and more VMA students are choosing to participate in various subject competitions and to enhance their research skills. VMA’s unique multidisciplinary competition training system allows each student to discover their strengths and provides every passion with a dedicated path forward.

The Vanke Meisha Academy Competition Center (referred to as the Competition Center) was officially established in 2020. It has assembled a coaching team led by VMA subject teachers, with additional experts and scholars invited from various fields to help motivated, curious students showcase their academic abilities. Under the leadership of the VMA coaching team, students have achieved remarkable successes in recent years across mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, STEAM, business, social sciences, and the arts, showcasing their passion and talents on the world stage.