reporter Wang Yejie
the Intel international science and engineering competition (ISEF) Award for 10 years' failure of Chinese mainland students, won by a middle school student in Shanghai this year. Come on. Most of the winners were from top schools and most of their parents were different from the high students in science and engineering. This year's top two students were from a suburban middle school in Shanghai, which was established for only 3 years. All the parents were the ordinary working class.
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recently, in the seminar room of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University affiliated high school Jiading, the 18 year old Intel prize winner and the sophomore Yao Yue received the Chinese Youth Daily. An interview with a journalist. Throughout the course, he and his teachers and fathers are constantly emphasizing that Yao Yue is just an ordinary middle school student, not a "learning tyrant". He is not even a class cadre in school, he is just a small "dormitory length".
School executive vice president Du Shuxian told reporters that when Yao Yue returned two months ago, the school did not hang a banner and posted a red list. "He is just a common child on the campus, and it can't be differentiated."
"unreliable" "optical computer" won the international award
many people do not know that Yao Yue's award-winning project "optical computer" was a "unreliable project" that was almost abandoned. At the earliest national selection stage, his project was once shelved by a team of experts for "too weird ideas" and "lack of maneuverability", and two other foreign cooperators who worked with him to prepare for the project withdrew from the "lack of confidence in the project".
this "oddly" project was eventually completed by Yao Yue. The most common thing a school teacher sees is that he is alone in the study room at night. And this strange invention, in the future, will change the world - the computer produced by the optical analog digital, which can run hundreds of times as fast as the existing electronic computer.
computer usually simulates "0" and "1" by electronic devices; in Yue Yue, the number is simulated with different colors of light, and a mixture of light is used to represent and subtract, subtraction, multiplication and division, and the results can be known only by reading the color of the mixed light. As for the speed of light mixing, Yao Yue once went to a famous optical laboratory and was told that "mixing light does not take time".
although many experts felt the high school student's idea was unreliable, Yao Yue continued the study, aided by a group of high school teachers in the school, a year after the project was set aside. He took the initiative to find the school history teacher Peng Yu, the math teacher Chen Yunhe and the art teacher Jin Liyan for help, while Du Shuxian, the Deputy principal of the chemistry teacher, also favored the project, and asked his head teacher, English teacher Sun Yi and a physics teacher to help.
"I just want to study this topic, pure interest, whether we can participate in the competition does not matter." Yao Yue told reporters whether he could participate in the competition, he would conduct the research.
later to the United States, he also used his design of "light color superposition to realize the new method of three arithmetic and mathematical proof", and made a prototype of an optical computer to get the world's first prize in the computer science. The computer is just a simple device installed in a transparent box, not a component of more than 100 yuan, the overall cost of not more than 2000 yuan. One of Yao's advisors,
"I don't like teaching students to set formulas. I like to deduce formulas on the spot." Chen Yunhe, 30, talked about his teaching ideas and explained the "malpractice" of the formula. "Sometimes pushing and pushing, it can't be pushed out until the bell rings, some children are going to riot under the platform."
Yao Yue likes Chen Yunhe who doesn't seem to be very reliable. Chen Yunhe is also willing to give advice to his students who don't seem to have a good idea. At a seminar in the first half of the first half semester of
, Chen Yunhe said unpolitely that Yao's idea was "don't understand". "Do you want to make a definition, or do you want to make a proof?" Yao Yue and Chen Yunhe studied this question for a whole week. After solving this fundamental problem, the optical computer project has a general appearance.
is not "study hegemony", not the cram class
those who have won the prize, the famous school, the outstanding achievement, are often referred to as the title of "study hegemony". After hearing the word "learning tyrants", Yao Yue quickly waved his hand. "Don't say I'm learning tyrants. I'm not." Yao Wei, who was sitting beside him, could not help laughing. "Where is he learning tyrants?"
Yao Wei himself is a traffic policeman. His wife is a staff member of the property company. The first qualification of two people is graduated from high school. To this day, both couples are not very clear about their children's research and international awards. "It's his own, we don't know much about it."
in the eyes of the father, Yao Yue is only a common child, from small to large, with the outstanding achievement of "study hegemony" never have much to do with, "the results can only be better, certainly not the best."
he clearly recollection that his son had little special advantage in running except for "running" at the beginning of his junior high school. When he was in grade five of primary school, Yao Yue took part in the test of West Yanan middle school. After running 60 meters and 400 meters, she was admitted to the key middle school because of her good performance. "It's not good." Yao Wei added.
while in junior high school, Yao Wei also wanted to give his son a "sports bonus", like most ordinary students' parents. For this reason, Yao Yue has two track and field lessons every week to prepare for the extra marks in the high school entrance examination. But at the last minute, he could not get the qualification because of the bone age.
like other children, Yao Yue also likes to watch TV and play games, and his father's two recreational activities are an hour each day. Although children are restricted to watch TV, Yao Wei always watches TV after he comes home from work but seldom reads books.
at first glance, Yao Wei is the same as most parents. But he has one of the biggest advantages: calm down. From primary school to high school, he never volunteered to enroll children in any extracurricular cram school.
in the first grade of primary school, Yao Yue was endowed with the right of self-determination that other students envied. At that time, Cambridge English was popular. The school took an extra hour of Cambridge English class every week, and later added an Australian English class. Yao Yue thought there were conflicts between the two courses, so he decided to give up the latter.
Yao Wei told reporters that many of his friends began to attend extracurricular classes from primary school, and he had been entangled in this. But he decided not to let his son suffer. "Why did he score 93 points in primary school? For 100 points? It's not necessary. " When
third grade, Yao Yue once failed in physics exam. He was frustrated in his confidence and found his father, saying he wanted to go to other classes to make up lessons. After listening to Yao Wei, he also persuaded his son, "what do you mean by bad times? Why do we have to work overtime on Saturday and Sunday on Monday and Friday? You just learn what you want to learn in class.
compares with the academic "low request", Yao Wei lives in the request to the child is quite high. In primary school, he asked the child to swim once a week; when he was in junior high, he asked the child to practise long distance running. When he was in high school, he let the children cook and cook at home on their weekends and summer holidays.
until now, near the third year of senior high school, Yao Yue still has plenty of time to watch TV and play games. The father's principle is that when you are 18 years old, you can manage your time well.
"unrestrained" school education "manufacturing" genius
interview, the reporter found, and Yao Yue's father "scattered" family education echoes, is the campus "unrestrained" school education. Yao Yue, the Shanghai Jiaotong University of Jiaotong University of Jiading, was founded in September 2011. So far, only 3 years of school running time has been achieved in the field of scientific and technological innovation in students.
this school admissions to the whole city, although its source is excellent, it is by no means the top student in Shanghai. However, it is precisely these students, including Yao Yue, who have won awards in international competitions.
Yue Yue is the first student in the innovation class jointly organized by this school and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In this class, students are scheduled to have a science class every week - the teacher does not have to lecture, but is mainly responsible for listening, listening to the students' recent ideas and topics, and looking for bright spots, encouragement, and appropriate academic assistance.
the idea of "mixing the light to simulate digital operations" was put forward by Yao Yue and was excavated by teachers.
Du Shuxian, the standing vice president of the school, told reporters that not only is the student of the science class, but the students of any class, as long as they have a subject and a "idea" to do the research, can help them to search for their useful teachers in the whole school. In the past few days, she had been selected by two high school girls who wanted to be "suitable for teenage cosmetics".
a unique and bold way is to let history teachers and art teachers take charge of the school's chief counselor. "Advocate a philosophy of technology and humanities, technology and art." Du Shuxian thought it was this practice that created today's Yao Yue, who received more extensive scientific and technical advice from the history teacher, linking color and computer technology from the art teacher.
eyes back to Yao Yue, the sophomore and second term, and the school also boldly gave him a special treatment for a semester - he could have his own research room, a small computer desk and a computer; he could go to the class that he thought he needed every day without having to follow the class schedule.
the risk of such special treatment is obvious to all, and academic achievements may be implicated. But both Yao and his parents, or schools, are willing to take risks.
"whether or not we can win the prize, the school will fill in the curriculum for him and help him pass the sophomore academic proficiency test." After returning from Yao Yue's competition, Du Shuxian has been trying to protect Yao Yue from accepting media interviews, so that he can devote himself to the preparation of the academic proficiency test.
her bottom line is that it can not delay the normal basic culture course of the children, and the school has the responsibility to send them to the ideal university. The first 100% graduates of this school went to university, and nearly 90% of them entered key universities.