Help start a program called Building Bridges allowing high students in Malawi to exchange ideas on science with Australian high school students.
Building Bridges is a digital storytelling and student exchange program proposed by UWA PhD candidate, Ms. Muza Gondwe. It is going to involve high school students in Malawi and Australia to share ideas with each other over the internet. The students will be involved in making films about science and also about their cultures to be sent to each other. After all the videos have been watched, the students will take part in a video conference about each other’s films and the impact they had as well as discussing the important scientific and cultural issues identified.
I like the idea of bringing different groups of people together because this is often where new ways of thinking occur and this leads to new and exciting projects.
I’d buy toys and gadgets for communicating science to teachers and the general community. Some teachers are now using Mr Potato Head dolls and Lego for teaching some topics in year 12 chemistry. That’s something that would be good to continue and to expand.
We just showed we can make an important drug better. We solved the problem by getting a lot of people together on the web to share ideas and experimental results. Science goes faster that way.
So we have a way to make this drug. The World Health Organisation is working out whether to take what we found and make the drug on a very large scale (tons of it).
When you start making tons of something, the way you make it has to be very efficient – very little waste. So your process needs to be made better and better. It’s called optimization.
I just started a project online where students can work together to optimize making this drug. They can do experiments, upload their results and work together in writing up what they find.
This is mainly for Uni students, but your science teacher might be able to tell you whether you could get involved.
One of the important things is that I want to get students from anywhere involved. We just had a student from California in America do some work on it. I have some students in Sydney starting on it next week. But I would like to have students from anywhere take part, including from countries in Africa where the drug is used the most.
So I’d use the $1000 as a prize. The student or student team who makes the biggest impact on the project, and the most important discovery, would get the money.
I’d like to make a competition for Aussie high school students to write about science, with a chance to win prizes such as a subscription to The Helix science magazine, and to have your science article published. I think it would be a good chance for you guys to investigate an area of science which interests you, and learn to write about it in a away which will interest other people. You could be doing this anyway, but I think it’s more fun when there are prizes involved, and if you do get your article published then it is a very impressive achievement, and something that will help you out later if you want to be a writer.
I’d donate the money to an organisation called Science Exchange. Science Exchange (www.riaus.org.au/) is an Australia-wide organisation that works hard to explain science to school students and adults in ways that are interesting and understandable. I don’t know if you’ve ever watched the science show Catalyst, but one of the presenters of Catalyst is the head of Science Exchange.
The money would be used to help improve science education programs for primary schools, perhaps even to design something like “I’m a scientist” but for primary school. I’d like to see kids get really excited about doing experiments in years 3-6, before they get to high school.
Help start a program called Building Bridges allowing high students in Malawi to exchange ideas on science with Australian high school students.
Building Bridges is a digital storytelling and student exchange program proposed by UWA PhD candidate, Ms. Muza Gondwe. It is going to involve high school students in Malawi and Australia to share ideas with each other over the internet. The students will be involved in making films about science and also about their cultures to be sent to each other. After all the videos have been watched, the students will take part in a video conference about each other’s films and the impact they had as well as discussing the important scientific and cultural issues identified.
I like the idea of bringing different groups of people together because this is often where new ways of thinking occur and this leads to new and exciting projects.
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I’d buy toys and gadgets for communicating science to teachers and the general community. Some teachers are now using Mr Potato Head dolls and Lego for teaching some topics in year 12 chemistry. That’s something that would be good to continue and to expand.
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I’d convert it into a prize.
We just showed we can make an important drug better. We solved the problem by getting a lot of people together on the web to share ideas and experimental results. Science goes faster that way.
So we have a way to make this drug. The World Health Organisation is working out whether to take what we found and make the drug on a very large scale (tons of it).
When you start making tons of something, the way you make it has to be very efficient – very little waste. So your process needs to be made better and better. It’s called optimization.
I just started a project online where students can work together to optimize making this drug. They can do experiments, upload their results and work together in writing up what they find.
You can read about it a little bit on my blog: http://intermolecular.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/open-science-student-projects/
This is mainly for Uni students, but your science teacher might be able to tell you whether you could get involved.
One of the important things is that I want to get students from anywhere involved. We just had a student from California in America do some work on it. I have some students in Sydney starting on it next week. But I would like to have students from anywhere take part, including from countries in Africa where the drug is used the most.
So I’d use the $1000 as a prize. The student or student team who makes the biggest impact on the project, and the most important discovery, would get the money.
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I’d like to make a competition for Aussie high school students to write about science, with a chance to win prizes such as a subscription to The Helix science magazine, and to have your science article published. I think it would be a good chance for you guys to investigate an area of science which interests you, and learn to write about it in a away which will interest other people. You could be doing this anyway, but I think it’s more fun when there are prizes involved, and if you do get your article published then it is a very impressive achievement, and something that will help you out later if you want to be a writer.
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I’d donate the money to an organisation called Science Exchange. Science Exchange (www.riaus.org.au/) is an Australia-wide organisation that works hard to explain science to school students and adults in ways that are interesting and understandable. I don’t know if you’ve ever watched the science show Catalyst, but one of the presenters of Catalyst is the head of Science Exchange.
The money would be used to help improve science education programs for primary schools, perhaps even to design something like “I’m a scientist” but for primary school. I’d like to see kids get really excited about doing experiments in years 3-6, before they get to high school.
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