近日，全美经济学挑战（National Economics Challenge以下简称：NEC）公布了晋级全国赛名单，广州外国语学校IBDP国际课程学子在比赛中凭借过人的实力，脱颖而出，共有5名学生荣获全国赛资格。

National Economics Challenge(NEC) announced the list of the finalists who can take part in the national competition, and 5 students from ISA Wenhua Guangzhou Foreign Language IB Programme successfully qualified for NEC China.

全美经济学挑战是美国最具影响力的高中生经济学竞赛。每年有超过15,000名学生受邀参加，赛事及参赛选手得到了华尔街知名金融机构、全球顶尖大学的广泛支持和认可。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、建立审辩性思维习惯，是高中经济学子一年一度的学术盛会，亦是未来政商财经界精英的摇篮。

National Economics Challenge is the most influential economics competition for high school students. More than 15,000 students are invited to join the competition every year. The competition and candidates are widely supported and recognized by famous financial institutions in Wall Street and the world’s top universities. NEC aims to arouse students’ interest in economics, cultivate their ability to solve problems and establish the habit of critical thinking. It is an annual academic event and the cradle for future elites from politics, business and financial circles.

NEC比赛受到美国学术界、金融界及商业界的广泛认可，每年决赛选手均会被哈佛、斯坦福、耶鲁等世界超一流名校录取。

The NEC competition is widely recognized by the US academic, financial and business circles. Every year, most of the finalists were admitted to Harvard, Stanford, Yale and other world-class universities.

在广州外国语学校的大力支持下，老师们秉承着严谨认真的教学态度，学生们得以在第一次参加社科类全球规模赛事中取得喜人成绩。

此次NEC比赛华南地区有上百支队伍参赛，IB学子共组成了3支队伍比赛。晋级全国赛的角逐十分激烈，高手云集。

Thanks to the support of GZFLS, IB students were able to participated in the NEC competition and made a hit.

There were more than 100 teams from South China participating in the NEC competition and lots of excellent people gathered in the fierce national promotion competition. 

虽然IB队伍是首次参加NEC比赛，但是同学们的学习热情高涨，勇于迎接挑战，并迅速地投入到高强度的学习与备战工作中。同学们在备赛的过程中受益良多，执行力和学习力都得到了质的飞跃。他们以小组为单位相互协作，对团队合作精神有了深刻地领悟。预祝他们在全国赛中取得更优异的成绩。

Although it was the first time for our IB teams to join NEC, the students showed great enthusiasm for learning, were brave to meet challenges and quickly devoted themselves to the intensive study and preparation. The students benefited a lot from the preparation. Their executive and learning ability improved greatly and they had a profound understanding of teamwork spirit through the cooperation with each others in groups.

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NEC主办方/ 庄老师

 IB的学生在离报名截止日期非常近的情况下才开始备赛，还能取得这个成绩非常不容易，也希望同学们再接再厉，在全国赛中取得好成绩。

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