IB Highlights: Effects of U.S.-China Trade War

An SGS senior has used the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme to investigate the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on consumers in this country.

Extended Essay Highlight: Senior Clark Chen’s EE question was: "How did the U.S.-China trade war impact the consumer’s regular expenditure regarding apparel and footwear in the United States?"  Clark wants to pursue Business classes in college and felt like this topic would help him understand the concepts better.  He says, “The impact of a trade war between two biggest countries in the world do not only negatively or positively affect the two countries that engaged into the trade war.  At the same time, it also impacts the smaller economies, like some firms and countries.  In order to do the research, I choose to narrow it down to only basic products in the stores, excluding big products like houses, cars, etc."

CAS Experience Highlights: CAS experiences for all of our Upper School students (in the US and in China) include skiing for the first time, putting together and delivering donations to the MLK center in Spokane, baking a cake, chopping down trees, doing yoga, practicing meditation, practicing basketball, programming, cooking, making a custom sweatshirt, playing soccer, taking photos, creating an infectious disease flyer, participating in a horse clinic, demolition on a kitchen, wake surfing, participating in the winter rover float, running GLOW club, helping a neighbor cut a fallen tree, making cloud lights, creating a photo wall, writing for the literary magazine, creating a self-care menu, playing violin, kayaking, moving furniture, learning to cook, helping clean a church, making cake pops, tutoring mother in chess, making autumn pear paste, working in a cattery, drawing, making cookies, surfing in Sanya, testing environmental Covid samples, writing a MLK essay, snowboarding, and helping with the 2nd grade bubble project. 

IB Question of the Week: How can we see what students around the world are doing in IB Art?  

The IB says: “Our IB community is continuing to share artwork online via #IBart.  You can now view their creative work via our IB network to celebrate and support them online...  The IB has decided to launch a dedicated page using #IBart to further circulate all of the artwork being produced.  By adding a location to your post on Twitter or Instagram, it will enable us to create a map of all the work taking place around the world, keeping our IB community well connected.

"We would like to make our students aware that using #IBart to showcase artwork will not impact or influence the grading of the artwork itself.  Instead, it can be used to inspire and grow our IB community by raising awareness of creativity digitally and globally.  If you would like to explore the artwork currently being circulated, please visit our dedicated exhibition page.”

IB Overview:  The Diploma Programme (DP) curriculum for grades 11-12 is made up of six subject groups and the DP core, comprising Theory of Knowledge (TOK), Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS) and the Extended Essay (EE).  Please refer to our IB webpage and to the IB Resources page in PowerSchool Learning for detailed IB information.