新年伊始，上海美高学校高中部传来2023第一封喜讯，美高学子在“2023NEC全美经济学挑战赛”斩获多项大奖，晋级中国区总决赛！
At the beginning of the New Year, the first good news of 2023 came from Living Word Shanghai International High School. LWS students won a number of awards in the "2023 NEC National Economics Challenge" and advanced to the finals in China!
众所周知，NEC全美经济学挑战赛，作为极具影响力的中学生经济学学术活动，最重要的原因就是顶尖学术挑战, 助力名校申请！
As we all know, National Economics Challenge (NEC), is a very competitive academic activity of high school students, the most important reason is the top academic challenge, and will help them when applying to the top universities around the world!
在这场竞争激烈的国际竞赛中，美高学子惊艳亮相，一举斩获多个重磅奖项！这其中，离不开经济老师Emily的辛勤辅导，离不开班主任老师的鼓励，更离不开同学们的努力和付出，才开出了成功的花朵！
In this highly competitive international competition, our students made an amazing appearance and won a number of heavy awards! Among them, we can not do without the hard guidance of the economic teacher Emily, the encouragement of their homeroom teachers, and the efforts and efforts of the students!
祝贺同学们在此次比赛中取得优异成绩，为校争光，美高为你们感到骄傲和自豪！同时预祝同学们不骄不躁，在全国总决赛中再创佳绩！
Congratulations to the students who have achieved excellent results in this competition, winning glory for the school, and LWS is proud of you! At the same time, I wish all the students not to be arrogant and impatient, and make great achievements in the national finals!
带队老师感言
Emily Zhang
This year our school has obtained amazing results in the National Economics Challenge competition that 14 students successfully finished the regional round and received the invitation for the national round. The main content in the competition is included in the Economic courses in the school, providing advantages for students to learn the materials beforehand. On the other hand, our students are self-motivated and strive to reach their full potential with a passion for Economics and challenges. They also demonstrated a collective spirit of fighting for the honor of the team. In the national competition, we believe that our students will enjoy more excitement and achieve even more outstanding results!
参赛学生感言
Joanna Zhang
Participating in this competition not only helped me improve my knowledge of Economics, but also taught me many other important skills. For example, I learned how to work under pressure, how to collaborate effectively with a team, and how to succeed in the competition. These are all valuable skills that will greatly benefit my future development.
Jason Dong
In this NEC competition, because this is the first time to participate in such a competition, I am still a little nervous about the competition, but through my own time to practice and help each other with my team members, I finally successfully promoted. The same thing made me more interested in business competitions. I hope I can do more to help the team get a better position in the competition.
Yolanda Chen
It’s an honor for me to advance to the next step of the competition, as this is my first time participating in an economic competition. I’ve definitely learned a lot—teamwork, problem-solving, cooperation, and economic knowledge during the times we spent preparing for the competition.
Stella Liu
This is my first time to take part in the business competition. I am very happy to go on to the next level. I will continue to work hard to achieve better results.
National Economics Challenge
全美经济学学术活动（National Economics Challenge，简称NEC）是美国最具影响力的高中生经济学竞赛，由美国经济教育学会（Council for Economic Education）举办。每年有超过20000名高中学生参加该竞赛，超过20%的美国决赛选手被哈佛、耶鲁、斯坦福等藤校录取。NEC在2016年引入中国后，已覆盖到20多个省份和地区、300余所学校，数千名财商学子从中受益。
NEC是美国经济教育学会旗下最具影响力的赛事，它紧密联系全美财经巨擘，受到华尔街金融财团认可，也是中美高中经济学子的年度盛会。NEC旨在激发学生对经济学知识的兴趣、培养解决问题的能力、建立批判性思维习惯。