Main Proposal of NCPA Competition Union

Basic Information

Name of organization: NCU (NCPA Competition Union)

Slogan in English: Work hard and amaze everyone

Slogan in Chinese: 努力，然后惊艳所有人

Number of Students: 10~20

Advisor: Lily Lu

Place to meet: Library Bubble Room

Meeting Time: Tuesday 4:30 to 5:30 starting 2021-22

Founder: Coco Gao

Co-founder: Amily Xia, Anna Du, Ashley Shi, Jamie Liu, Kelly Jia, Leon Lu, Lois Xie, Nia Dai, Skyler Hu

Writer/Contributors of Proposal: Coco Gao, Kelly Jia, Leon Lu

Purpose of the organization

This organization helps NCPA students to have a wider outlook for scholarship competitions. Comprehensive competition experience is an integral part of students’ profiles, which is exactly what selective universities and colleges are looking for. For another, participating in competitions can help prepare students for college since academic competitions motivates them to better understand some of the complex topics in their field of interest, which can potentially enhance their class performance (GPA) at school. As a matter of fact, compared to outstanding performances in athletic competitions that the school organizes for sports teams each year, NCPA lacks formal organizations of academic competitions. To fill the space of potential improvement in this aspect, this organization will provide students a way to better understand themselves, develop further in subject information and research, and finally support themselves to have higher performances in the application of undergraduate programs.

Benefits for NCPA

NCPA values students’ ability to negotiate, collaborate, plan, and achieve. Academic competitions fit these purposes perfectly. When students are given the opportunities demonstrate these abilities through the means of academic competitions, they get recognised and can be proud of ourselves; their achievements, furthermore, can promote the student body’s academic enthusiasm when shout outs are given in school assemblies. As NPCA students, we strive to become better selves, and those honors and achievements could serve as a way to prove our work and ambitions. This is what NCU is born for. We need to give students opportunities to reach their goals, and in turn we need to show our achievements and honors to these pre-NCPA students and parents the Pulao Prouds! We have many competitors schools, whose students excel at academic competitions, so if NCPA students don’t even know about the existence of those academics competitions, they will miss the shot of joining in the community of academic competitors around China. Also, competitions definitely help students’ personal growth. This will help them to have higher performance in college application and hence increase NCPA’s reputation among International High Schools, which will also help to gain high parent acceptance as college application is one of most important reasons why parents decide to send their children to NPCA.

Benefits for NCPA Students

Academic competition experiences is one of most important backgrounds of students’ profiles that top universities and colleges are looking for. Participating in competition gives students better opportunities to have a more colorful high school experience; this includes their aspiration to take challenges, the every step that they take towards their goals, the perseverance they demonstrate when facing difficulties, and much more. The achievements of those competitions reflect the spirits of students’ hard work and commitment. In addition, competitions motivate students in academic research (e.g. Public Forum Debates), real-world problem solving (e.g. Girl Technovation, China Thinks Big), gaining deeper understandings of AP courses (e.g. International Economics Olympiad, Physics Bowl, Canadian Chemistry Contest, etc.), and the exploration of their personal interests (e.g. International Linguistics Olympiad).

How we maintain this organization

• Collect informations of competitions in each subjects
• Promote those informations to students in school
• Calculate budgetary needs and number of participation

Description of Jobs

Heads of NCPA Competition Union

• President:
  • The leader of NCU, whose job includes proposing weekly meeting agendas, maintaining the running of NCU, distributing work to members, respecting everyone, and communicating with the school administration for the approval of proposals.
• Vice-President
  • The co-leader of NCU, who assists the president to propose weekly meeting agendas, maintain the running of NCU, distribute work to members, respect everyone, communicate with the school administration, and keep track of attendance.
• Budgetary President
  • The budgetary president is responsible for managing all funds and transactions involved in the running of NCU, which includes but are not limited to the application fees for competitions, the marketing of products, and profit calculations
• Statistics President
  • The statistics president’s responsibility is to collect relevant information for events and competitions, which includes making forms or surveys, collecting attendance information, and communicating with the finance office to keep track of payments.
• Promotion President
  • The promotion president’s primary responsibility is to make information accessible to the student body through mediums including but not limited to writing articles, creating art designs, and managing a WeChat official account. (and sending emails and posting to student bulletin?)
• Article Promotion Group Leader
  • The article promotion group leader is in charge of writing and proofreading article
• Art Design Promotion Group Leader
  • The art design promotion group leader is in charge of the graphic design of posters and other relevant medias
• Information Collection President
  • The information collection president’s job is to supervise group members’ work to collect information, ensure that the collected information is accurate, and check the format of research.
• Group of information collection
  • Science Competition Group Leader: Research/make sure all information about science competition are correct and accurate, in charge of information update
  • Technology Competition Group Leader: Research/make sure all information about technology competition are correct accurate, in charge of information update
  • Mathematic Competition Group Leader: Research/make sure all information about mathematic competition are correct accurate, in charge of information update
  • Social Studies Competition Group Leader: Research/make sure all information about social science competition are correct accurate, in charge of information update
  • Art Competition Group Leader: Research/make sure all information about art competition are correct accurate, in charge of information update

Members of NCU

• Primary Student Leader(Founder):

  Name: Coco Gao

  Grade: 11

  House: Red House

  Name of roll: President

• Student Leaders (Co-Founders):

  Name: Jamie Liu

  Grade: 10

  House: Purple

  Name of roll: Vice-President

  Name: Kelly Jia

  Grade: 11

  House: Purple

  Name of roll: Statistics President

  Name: Leon Lu

  Grade: 11

  House: Purple

  Name of roll: Budgetary President

  Name: Lois Xie

  Grade: 11

  House: Orange

  Name of roll: Temporary Promotion President/Art Competition

  Name: Ashley Shi

  Grade: 11

  House: Red

  Name of roll: Promotion Art Design Group Leader

  Name: Nia Dai

  Grade: 11

  House: Green

  Name of roll: Technology Competition Group Leader

  Name: Amily Xia

  Grade: 11

  House: Red

  Name of roll: Promotion Article Group Leader

  Name: Skyler Hu

  Grade: 11

  House: Orange

  Name of roll: Information Collection President/Science Competition Group Leader

  Name: Anna Du

  Grade: 10

  House: Green

  Name of roll: Social Studies Group Leader

What we need (requirements)

• Be officially Recognized as student organization (have record in powerschool)
• Be able to promote at the beginning of next year assembly as student organization
• Create email group account
• Have team group in teams
• A meeting place (Library Bobble Room)

What we hope to have

• Faculty advisors for academic competitions with large number of attendees
• Support from each department to promote academic competitions relevant to that subject

Budgetary requirements

• Official Wechat account (yearly)
• ASA budget
• Coverage of school registration fees if applicable (not per-person registration fees)
• An NCU account from the finance office