My Personal Learning – Page 2

November 16, 2016October 19, 2017

Kampot Writer and Reader Festival

Kampot Writers and Readers festival is an unusual event in Kampot province, Cambodia every November. This festival brings the writers and readers together and share their experience also seeing and learning about the global issue, literacy, culture, history, and education. As a writer and also a reader I attend this event for my second time. The last I participated, I was the listener, but this year I’m a listener and also a presenter. I was presenting about the Wildlife Animal Guide Book that I’ve been working on. The event went really well, I enjoyed listening to different presentations a lot. My favorite fart was going a boat cruise with the author of the book “Holiday in Cambodia”. She read part of the book to us while riding on the boat. We got to see a really nice view of the river, with “firefly fill the night sky.” I also enjoy doing street art, it was fantastic.

October 26, 2016October 19, 2017

NARIT Asia Astronomy Camp

This year I join an “Astronomy camp” competition called NARIT. NARIT is an annual competition for high school students in southeast Asia. This year, this competition will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It will be from 24-27 of January 2016. Only 40 students will be select based on their essay. The topic for the essay is “How does Astronomy play a significant part in your daily life?” After I know all the information and the qualification I started to research to find out more about the solar system. I’ve learned a lot during my research and started to write my essay. I was amazed how earth really depends on the sun. Later, it turned out I wasn’t selected, but I had learned a lot from it. It was a good experience entering the competition.

June 1, 2016October 19, 2017

Google science fair

Google science fair is a worldwide competition for kids under 18 to join all over the world. This year I decide to choose a project about xylem water filter. I found this method on the internet, I thought this method is interesting so I choose this method to work with. I use this method to test different tree species in Cambodia and find the tree branches. After all I didn’t find any though I had only test three common species but the interesting thing is I learn something new. One of the specie absorbed water in the xylem may be it be made into a sponge.

April 28, 2016November 30, 2017

Technovation

Technovation is a program which encourage girl to join coding. I join it this year. I was a new experience for me. Then I had a team of three girl, I wasn’t the coder, because I hadn’t taken any coding classes. I work on the business plan and my friend code using app inventor 2. We had twelve weeks to work then we’re preparing for the national pitch. National pitch is a really great opportunity. One team will we selected from the high-school student and one will be from the middle-school studen. My team was considered middle-school student to be in the semi-final. To be fair we have to lucky draw our presenting oder. Team got the number 1. We were nervous, especially we only have 4 minutes to present. I was so nervous on the stage. At last my team wasn’t chosen but my team still a another chance. All the team that didn’t win will be judged again and some team might make it to semi-final.

April 5, 2016October 19, 2017

Insect conference

I and my partner, Mengthong was selected to join the insect conference at the royal university Phnom penh school. This conference is made to encourage Cambodia to research more about insect, because not a lot of people research about for one main reason is it is hard to research.

The conference last for three days but we only join for two days because it is almost time for holiday. On the first day of the conference we learn about insect, and we focus mainly on the order hymenoptera with bees and wasps. We also learn about taking picture of insect, and learn how to catch insect and also practice to catch insect. On the second day we and the university students went to Kampong spue to catch insect in the wild. It was so fun catching the insect especially I found a wasp potter’s nest. We also see a waterfall.

I had learned a lot from this conference, I even learn about how to distinguish between bees and wasps. I remembered three easiest way to distinguish between bees and wasps. One way that we can distinguish by looking at their legs bee had bigger and hairy legs which waps don’t. The other way is looking at their eyes, they both have eyes with shape of oval, but wasp have kind of a bend of v shape in the middle. Last but not least is their prothorax, wasps has kind of triangular shape on their prothorax which bees don’t.

December 2, 2015October 25, 2017

Stem Competition

On October, 22, 2015 five students (Seyha, David, Souyeth, Sopor and Sythong) and two teachers (Karen and Phearun) went to the STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) for the final round. In the final round there are nine groups. For the first game the five members from were split up, to the student get to know each other with the hand-on game of human knot. For the second game the student return to their team to compete with the other team about the ‘‘ One Minute to Win It’’ game. There are five games. The games are use your body to bounce the balloon using your body except feets and hands, blowing balls into a box, balance cuts and plate over each other, knox the cup on the table ball using air from balloon and flip the spoon into many different container with different point.

The last part was about creativity. The challenge was to design the marble mover using plastic tub, paper, tape, cardboard tube, flat sticks and plastic cups but we can also use the tray that all the material came in it. The only rule is you can not touch the marble once the let it go and you have 25 minute. Almost all the team make their marble mover horizontally with the marble run through the tupe and came in plastic cup or tray and finish it in ten minutes. But Liger had not started building we were still disgusting what is our design. Then we all agree on building it like a maze. As we started building the staff, student and judges came around to watch us, because we were the only one who build it vertically. To this creativity we got bonus point and so Liger got the first place, the prize for the winner was $100 for Monument book.