I decided not to pull a Jill Stein and contest the public vote because my group won, so instead I will pull a Donald Trump and both accept my victory while still stating the voting was rigged. In short, we had to give our final presentation on Tesla in China in front of the judges, who were all ECNU professors, and the other participants. Four of my group mates were doing the presentation, my other group mate along with myself were doing the Q&A. My odd degree came in handy when one of the judges started asking us Tesla questions about stuff we didn't research but I knew anyway. Afterwards they announced the winners (not one of the eight groups got any lower than third place) and the foreign and domestic excellent students from each group. You may be pleased to know that I won that dweeb prize too. Finally they gave us all certificates of participation and gifts for the winners of the contest and the dweeb prize. Very nice gifts mind you, I now have three nice notebooks and two pretty pens in addition to the three certificates I got. While I have a thing for paperwork, that is a bit much. They then took us to the campus restaurant (not cafeteria, sit down restaurant) for dinner. Dinner was alright, it was free so that is nice but it was too Shanghaiese (delicate as the Shanghaiese say or too sweet and too oily as the rest of China says). We played some games, took some pictures, then we're ushered back to the bus to return to our campus.
Overall it wasn't a bad experance. I wish we spent more time with our groups and less time on the bus. I also wish it was a bit better organized (I actually have to write my own name into my first prize "Certificate of Honor"), sometimes it felt like they were just hunting for stuff for us to do. I also wish it was worth a bit more, I put a lot of time into this for a certificate I might not be able to use. I am glad I got more interaction with the Chinese ECNU students as I believe the internationals and the domestic students don't interact with each other much at all. I feel like the Global Business Project has potential, it just needs some kinks worked out. It is its first year so I don't want to be too harsh. I hope the GBP succeeds because then ECNU might introduce more, similar, programs in the future, which I believe would be a plus to both the international and domestic students.
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Dad
12/7/2016 11:09:56 pm
First of all, congratulations on your victory and hard work. Those Chinese certificates are great as in the US you can claim that they are for anything, such as a Chinese Nobel Prize, as no one here can read them.
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Jared Paul Miller
12/7/2016 11:25:00 pm
Thanks, my certificates are half English and half Chinese so Americans should be able to read it. The Q&A and the presentations were totally in English. No, they were made in China, they had a slightly different taste.
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Gramma M.
12/8/2016 12:08:47 am
First of all, congrats that you did so well. Treasure those great pens and notebooks and of course, the grand certificate. Dad is right. You can say it meant you went up against other Nobel prize winners to win--who knows.
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Sharon
12/8/2016 06:57:49 am
that's my boy! U continue to make me proud
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Patty
12/8/2016 06:50:28 pm
Congratulations Jared! I really enjoy reading about your adventures and experiences in China.
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