康德双语致力于为每个学生提供发展自我的平台。上周五，高中部举办了创业商赛活动，在培养学生的创业意识和实践能力的同时也让同学们有机会展现自己的才华与创意。
本次创业商赛的参赛者来自于高中三个年级选修经济、商业以及会计专业的同学。在老师的指导下，经过一学期的学习，同学们将课上所学到的知识结合自己的商业想法，在与小组成员不断商讨之后制定创业方案，并在活动中展示给评委与观众。在13组选手激烈的角逐及精彩纷呈的创意中，评委们最终选出了前三名优胜组以及最佳演说人。
NO.1
Puzzle Up 电子“拼图”
Puzzle Up是12年级Mideo, Andy, Jimmy, Jeff, Ben设计的产品。几位同学发现像电脑这样的电子设备使用寿命有限，每隔几年就要更换新的设备从而保证使用效果。他们希望通过更换设备的插件而不是重新购买设备来帮助消费者节约成本，避免消耗。于是他们设计了三类产品：给非本品牌电脑使用的升级性能的子插件，本品牌自研的主板基底座，以及给基底座使用的元件插件。这使消费者能够用较低的花费升级电脑硬件性能或对自己的电脑进行DIY，得到自己理想的使用效果。
NO.2
Coffee Aromatherapy Candle
咖啡香薰蜡烛
10年级的Tony, Jason, April, Allen设计了Coffee Aromatherapy Candle 咖啡香薰蜡烛。几位同学表示，他们看到上海大部分的咖啡店都以免费赠送或丢弃的方式处理咖啡渣，他们希望设计出一种更环保、更有效率的方式去解决这个问题。于是他们想到利用咖啡渣制作香薰蜡烛，在环保的同时满足人们对生活品质的需求。除了咖啡香，他们还调制了咖啡花香、咖啡果香等诸多香味。作为唯一一个有实物的产品，现场的咖啡香薰也被老师同学们一售而空。
NO.3
Battree 可降解电池
11年级的Summer, Wendy, Mike, Adrian, Tom以及Louis设计的产品是“Battree”可降解电池。同学们认为，当今电池污染影响十分严重。电池含有多种重金属，如果丢弃，重金属会渗入土壤，污染水、鱼类以及农作物，破坏人类的生存环境，威胁人类的健康。而电池之所以会造成污染，是因为许多人不知道在电池使用完后该如何处理，就会把它和普通垃圾丢在一起。而Battree电池只需要将正负极取下，然后扔进土里，电池就可以自己降解发芽开花。
其原理是利用壳聚糖锌电解质替代了传统电池中有毒有害的重金属电解质。壳聚糖是蟹壳中提取出来的物质，而锌在可逆反应下也可自然降解，从而使得整个电池本体可以降解在土壤中，只需保留正负极的部分，然后重复使用。因为是磁吸装置，所以替换也十分简便。
“这次商赛让我受益颇多，使我不仅感受到了团队的力量和拼搏向上的精神，并且在和同学们的沟通中获得了许多新奇的创新思路。我认为这次商赛锻炼、发展、提升了我们每一个人的综合能力，让我们在未来的道路上更加具备多样能力。”作为最佳演说者，10年级的Joseph说道。
除了以上这些获奖产品，其他小组层出不穷的创意和想法也让在场师生印象深刻。包括能够智能配搭服装的镜子、上门宠物托管服务、印在墓碑上能够看到逝者生平事迹的灵魂博物馆（SOULIBRARY）应用程序、进行大数据分析的学前儿童益智游戏等。
正如评委之一的学术副校长James Stubbert所言，创业商赛让同学们有机会展现他们的创造力及商业思维，促进他们的团队合作意识。他很高兴在学生们身上看到了康德价值观的体现，希望同学们在重返校园后能够接受更多的挑战。
SCBS is committed to providing a platform for every student to develop themselves. Last Friday, the high school held an entrepreneurship competition, which cultivated students' entrepreneurial awareness and gave them the opportunity to show their talent, creativity and dynamism.
The participants in this competition involved Economics, Business, and Accounting students from grades 10, 11, and 12. Under the guidance of Mr. Farhadzadegan, the students combined the knowledge learned in class with their own business ideas, developed entrepreneurial plans through continuous discussions with their team members, and presented them to the judges and audience during the event. Among the 13 teams, the judges finally selected the top three winning teams and the best presenter.
NO.1
Puzzle Up
Puzzle Up is a product designed by Mideo, Andy, Jimmy, Jeff, and Ben who are all G12 students. They noticed that electronic devices such as computers have a limited lifespan and need to be replaced every few years to maintain their effectiveness. The students wanted to help consumers save costs and avoid waste by allowing them to upgrade their devices through switching pieces of hardware instead of buying entirely new devices. This allows consumers to upgrade their computer hardware or DIY their own computer at a lower cost and achieve their desired performance.
NO.2
Coffee Aromatherapy Candle
Tony, Jason, April and Allen from G10 designed the Coffee Aromatherapy Candle. They mentioned that they noticed many coffee shops in Shanghai dispose of their coffee grounds either by giving them away for free or throwing them away. They hoped to design a more environmentally friendly and efficient solution to this issue. So they came up with the idea of using coffee grounds to make aromatherapy candles, which would be environmentally friendly while also meeting people's demand for a high-quality lifestyle. In addition to the aroma of coffee, they also created many other scents such as coffee flower and coffee fruit. As the only physical product on-site, the candles were sold out by teachers and students.
NO.3
Battree
Summer, Wendy, Mike, Adrian, Tom and Louis from Grade 11 designed a product called ‘Battree’. Students believed that battery pollution has a serious impact today. Batteries contain various heavy metals. If they are discarded, these heavy metals will seep into the soil, pollute water, fish, and crops, and destroy the living environment of humans. The reason why batteries cause pollution is that many people do not know how to dispose of them after use and will throw them together with ordinary garbage. However, the ‘Battree’ battery only needs to remove the positive and negative electrodes and then bury it in the soil. The battery can degrade itself and sprout flowers.
The principle of chitosan zinc electrolyte is to replace the toxic and harmful heavy metal electrolyte in the traditional battery. Chitosan is a substance extracted from the crab shell, and zinc can also be degraded naturally under reversible reaction so that the whole battery itself can be degraded in the soil, and only the positive and negative electrode parts are kept and then reused. Because it is a magnetic suction device, it is also very easy to replace.
‘The competition has helped to develop the collaboration and presentation skills of every participant.’ said G10 Joseph, the best presenter.
In addition to the award-winning products mentioned above, other teams presented a wide range of impressive ideas and creative projects. These included a smart mirror that could help match clothing, an on-demand pet-sitting service, an app called SOULIBRARY that allows users to view the life stories of deceased loved ones by scanning their QR code, and educational games for preschool children that incorporate big data analysis. These ideas left a deep impression on the teachers and students in attendance.
As Academic Vice Principal James Stubbert, one of the judges pointed out, the entrepreneurship competition provided students with an opportunity to show their creativity and business acumen, as well as promoting their collaboration with others. He was pleased to see the embodiment of the values of Concord in the students and hoped that they would accept more challenges upon returning to campus.