ASDAN China

ASDAN China, founded in 2011, currently co-operates with 1000+ international and local schools across China. By 2021, more than 200,000 students participated in ASDAN China programs. ASDAN China currently cooperates with top international educational organizations and prestigious universities across the world to bring world class programs to Chinese students.

ASDAN has as aim to introduce a wide range of educational resources on subjects ranging from business, economics, mathematics,physics, chemistry, engineering, information science, biology,leadership, social studies and art into China. ASDAN China hopes to connect after-class activities with school classes, and aims to help schools improve their overall extra curricular activities, by providing students with high quality educational resources.

2011 Founded

Sept	ASDAN China was founded in Beijing with the aim to introduce the best educational resources to China, help schools build a skilled-based education system while advancing after-class activities.
Oct	Introduces the CoPE standard to China. Develops program fifit for Chinese students, through which they can be obtain 16 UCAS points.
Dec	ASDAN Mini MBA Program starts. The program combines exploration of the UK, US or EU with a focus on business, while working towards a COPE certifification.

2012 Builds university and teacher network

Aug	The World Youth Economic Forum (WYEF) is founded, co-hosted by ASDAN China alongside GUEF (Global Undergraduate Economic Forum) from Yale University.
Aug	Silk Road Adventure Program starts. By 2019, this yearly summer program has allowed over 800 Chinese and international students to discover the Silk Rxoad while deepening their knowledge of Chinese culture.
Sept	ASDAN holds its fifirst ASDAN Teachers' Conference with the aim to train teachers on skill-based education while acting as an exchange platform for teachers to learn from each other. It is now a yearly event engaging more than 800 teachers from150+ schools in the last edition.
Oct	ASDAN Business Simulation is created. An in-house built business simulation system with real trading rules running in near-life simulation. 100+ online and onsite simulations are held annually, with more than 10,000 students participating from international and Chinese schools.

2013 Schools accross China become ASDAN Centers

Feb	ASDAN Model United Nations Program starts. This program has taken 1200+ students to NAIMUN, YMUN, HMUN and MITMUNC. Upon successful completion, participants can apply for a AoPE certifificate that carries 8 UCAS points.
Mar	Schools across China can apply to become ASDAN Centers which gives them the opportunity to use ADAN programs to enrich their school activities.

2014 Partners with Standford Maths Tournament to co-host the ASDAN Math Tournament

Oct	The fifirst ASDAN Math Tournament is held in Beijing. The competition is co-hosted with SMT (Stanford Math Tournament) organizing committee. More than 700 students from 120 different schools participated.

2015 Seals AAPT, LIYSF, ARML and RSC partnerships

May	ASDAN China partners with the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) to introduce the PhysicsBowl. Every year, 100+ exam centres are mobilised across China for 4000+ participants.
Jul	ASDAN China becomes an offificial exclusive partner of the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF), one of the best high school science forum in the world.
Sept	Becomes offificial partner with American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) to introduce the ARML Local to Chinese high schools.
Sept	Cooperates with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to introduce a tailor made team based chemistry com-petition to China.

2016 Partners with 10 prestigious STEAM programs and 2 world famous summer schools

Mar	Becomes an offificial partner of The Royal Society of Biology (RSB) and introduces the 'British Biology Olympiad' to Chinese students allowing them to compete with 7000 British students.
May	Becomes an offificial partner of the USA biology Olympiad (USABO) to introduce the 'USA biology Olympiad' to China as the ‘BioOlympiad Initiative USA-China’.
Jun	Becomes Oxford Royale Academy’s exclusive China Partner for whom ASDAN selects top students to attend the Oxford Summer School.
Jun	Partners with Stanford University for which ASDAN selects outstanding Chinese students for their Stanford Pre-Collegiate International Institute summer school programs.
Jul	Holds the the fifirst New York Film Academy Summer Camp in Beijing in partnership with the New York Film Academy (NYFA).
Jul	Becomes a British Physics Olympiad (BPhO) offificial partner. Top Chinese performers are invited to join the British Physics Camp China hosted by head coaches from the UK.
Sept	Cooperates with Goettingen University to select Chinese student to attend its prestigious XLAB program which cumulates 45 Nobel laureates graduates. ASDAN starts XLAB China by working with universities and scientifific institutes within China.
Sept	Introduces the Berkeley Mini-Math Tournament (China) to provide middle school students with an international math tournament.
Dec	Starts offificial partnership with Bizworld.org, offering the best entrepreneurial education to young students.
	Partners with Cambridge Immerse to exclusively select candidates for the Cambridge Summer School.
	Cooperates with Enabling the Future-3D Printing to create a social educational program empowering Chinese students to use 3D printing technology to help handicapped children.
	Offificially partners with AMT (Australia Math Trust) to introduce the Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) and Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (CAT).

2017 Partners with world famous universities to create the ASDAN Career Exploration Program

May	Cooperates with MIT Model United Nations Conference (MITMUNC) to co-host MITMUNC China with the aim to offer a platform for students to find solutions to international issues based on MIT's first-rate academic strength in science and engineering.
	Starts cooperation with the PUPC (Princeton University Physics Competition) Committee to co-host PUPC (China).
Jul	Kickstarts ASDAN Career Exploration Program by collaobrating with some of the world’s best universities and top corporations including Imperial College, University of the Arts London, Hong Kong University, Singapore Nanyang Technology University, Amplify Trading, Citylinx etc.
	Partners with The London Institute of Banking and Finance (LIBF) to offer Chinese students a series of Finance challenge and qualifications.

2018 Becomes the biggest international STEM competition platform in China

Jul	ASDAN Global Volunteer Program kicks off offering volunteering programs around the globe that cover community support, environment protection and culture conservation.
May	Confirms official partnerships with more well-known international STEM competitions to become the biggest international competition platform in China. COMC - Canadian Open Math Competition CCC & CCO - Canadian Chemistry Competition and Olympiad UKChO - British Chemistry Olympiad BSC - Big Science Competition Australian Science Olympiad ACSL - American Computer Science League NRC - National Robotic Challenge
Sept	Officially starts working with Berkeley University to select students from China to its summer school.
Sept	Sept	Officially partners with SHAD to select Chinese students for one of the most prestigious Canadian summer school.

2019 Partners with the WSC, IAC, CEF, ETS and Maths Kangaroo

Mar	Partners with the World Scholar’s Cup (WSC) to introduce a unique academic challenge in China. We co-host regional rounds with the WSC team and help to select students to participate in Global Rounds and Championship held at Yale University.
May	Becomes a partner of the International Academic Challenge (IAC) to host its qualifier round and national round in China. Top performing students have the chance to participate at the IAC global.
May	Partners with Chemical Education Foundation (CEF) to introduce the You Be the Chemist Challenge qualifier round and to run the China national round. Chinese students compete alongside 60,000 American candidates.
Sept	Becomes an official partner of ETS (Education Testing Service) to organize the “ASDAN Critical Thinking Challenge” by using ETS HEIghten Qualification.
Oct	Becomes an official country member of Math Kangaroo Community. Math Kangaroo is the biggest international math competition in the world with an anual participation exceeding 8 million students from 87 countries.

2020 Introduces the OFQUAL and UCAS recognised EPQ & responds to COVID-19

Feb	Officially introduces the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) to China; the most popular research qualification program recognized by the British Ofqual and UCAS organisations.
Apr	After an unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, ASDAN China successfully executes an offline to online transition of its originally offline programs. Between Feb to April 2020, ASDAN China offers more than 30,000 students the opportunity to still attend competitions, events and other educational programs from the safety of their homes.