“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin,” Anthony Robbin
In programming class I worked on two big project. The first project was hangman game. I made it with my friend, Makara. The second project is called Guess Liger, which is similar to hangman. It is a game made by me and my other two friends, Vornsar and Samnang. All those project was programmed in Python Language. Below are some pictures of the games.
If you want to dowload and know more about Python, you can click the Python logo on the right.
On the 9th of March, 2015 I went to Pursat Province with Agriculture Group. Phearun and Mary were the facilitators. Below are my reflections for the trip.
| Date | Reflection |
| 9/3/15 | Today is the first day of our trip to Pursat. It is also my first time to Pursat. We packed our stuff on our bus and left liger at 8:00 am. I slept on the bus on the way. We ate lunch in a pagoda called Chan Moni. The old people in there were so kind. The hotel that I sleep in is called Than Sour Thmey. We went to Srer Khmer after we saw our room. I learned a lot there. One thing that I learned is that a type of plant called Chaya is very good for our health . In our lives we can it them up to one to three tons of that plant, if we cook it very well. I also learned one new word: Moringa is a plant that is bitter, in khmer we call it ម្រុុំ. My highlight was to hear all the questions that my friends asked and how they answered them. |
| 10/3/15 | Today, I listened to a presentation about rice in the village chief’s house. A lot of people came to the house. Thona presented to us. I learned that there are three big steps of growing rice. First, it’s the growing steps. Second is the product increasing step. The third one is the ripe step. There are small steps in each big steps. Another thing that I learned is that Srer Khmer is located in four provinces, Pursat; Battombong; Siem Riep; Kompong Thom. We went to a villager’s house and ate lunch there. My highlight for the day was to take out the weeds from the rice field. My other highlight was to go to the public school to teach students English. It was a tired and hot day, but it was fun. |
| 11/3/15 | Today, I woke up at 6:10 am. I showered and got ready for the trip to Steung Kombot community. We went to the farmer’s house to see the cucumber farm. We picked a lot them. We also saw the bitter melons and long beans. I learned one thing is that they used the papers to cover around the bitter melons because they don’t want the pest and insect to eat the vegetables. The other thing that I learned is that there are three types of fertilizer to put in (the same as rice) and we need 150g of fertilizer to put in 20 L of water. My highlight was to go to the ideal farmer site and see how beautiful the crops are. We took pictures in the trellis of the bitter melon. I like today a lot. |
Exploration Name; Entrepreneurship
Dates:10/6/2014 – 11/21/2014
Number of Students: 12
Location of Trips Taken: ARC Hub PNH, Northbridge, Small World,
Central Market, Cham Pu Ka-ek Market
Essential Questions: How to make a business?
Course Description: Our Exploration is called Entrepreneurship. We had four groups. There are HP-Pro, Shook, Sa-art Action and CPH. Each person in each group had different job to do, like leader, marketer, blogger, designer and the people that in charge website. Every Friday, we went to Arc Hub to study with Kichong our learning facilitator. We’ve been learning some terms. All the terms that we’ve learned are connected to business. Here are some terms that we’ve learned: profit means how much money we earned ; loss means the money that loose from our business ; feedback is comment, suggestion, improvement, advice ; prototype is the sample to learn from ; insight means understanding people vision ; proactive is causing something to happen and not waiting for good luck. On the last day, we take a test to make sure that we understand all the term that we’ve learned. We wrote essay for the test.
Name: Tropical Forest Ecology
Date: May 5 2014 – June 17 2014
Number of People: 12
Essential Questions:
Description: In Tropical Forest Ecology we learned about Ecosystems. Ecosystems are a community of organisms that are interconnected and connected with non-living things. We went on two trips because we wanted to experience and see forest directly.We went to Preah Vihear and Koh Kong provinces. When we came back we compared the dry deciduous dipterocarp forest ecosystem (Preah Vihear province) with the evergreen forest ecosystem (Koh Kong province). In Preah Vihear we went to Tmatboey community and in Koh Kong we went to Chi Phat community. We learned about conservation. Conservation means taking care or protecting something. While we learned about conservation, we also learned about sustainable and unsustainable. Sustainable is the action that does not destroy the ecosystem. Unsustainable is the action that destroys the ecosystem. We learned about ecotourism. Ecotourism is tourism that uses and benefits the ecosystem. That is one way that we use ecosystems sustainably.Also we learned about ecological services. Ecological services are the benefits that people get from ecosystems. There are three ecological services such as provisioning services, regulating services and cultural services. Provisioning services are how the ecosystem provides us directly. Ex: Trees give us resin. Regulating services are how the ecosystem regulates the climate. Ex: Trees stop the floods by absorbing the water. Cultural services are how the ecosystems give us something culturally. Ex: Bambuti people use forest plants to smoke for their ceremonies. We answered our essential questions by using the knowledge that we got from our trips.
Exploration Name: Tech Support
Exploration Dates: August 13-Oct 3, 2014
Number of Students: 12
Description: Tech Support was the first Exploration of the second year. In Tech Support we learned about technology and helping other organizations, NGOs and Liger with their technology problems. On the first day Max, our facilitator taught us a little bit about the ideas that he made this Exploration. On the next day we started to learn more about technology. We learned about the parts of computers (hardware). On the second week we had a trip to Singapore! Before that day we prepared our clothes in our backpacks. When we arrived at the airport our parents came to say goodbye to us. We were so sad but we were also happy. On the plane people were talking to each other, some people hurt their ears because it’s hard to hear up there in the sky. When we arrived in Singapore we had to wait for the checker to check our passports. After we finished the check step there was a big surprise for us because Robert (the former head of Liger) came and was waiting for us. He came and said hello to us, we were shocked. About 15 minutes later we went straight to UWCSEA South East Campus. We went there because we want to collaborate with them so we can help NGOs and organizations in Cambodia. There were seven members that worked with us. The first day that we met them we played some games to know and get familiar with each other. Then we found out our host family that we were going to sleep with for two days. Our host families were so friendly and kind. We went there and learned with an IT expert more about the hardware of the computers. On the third day we camped in UWCSEA. Also we went to the science museum to learn and have fun. Sadly on Wednesday we had to leave Singapore. When we came back we went to two organizations to help them. One of them is Tiny Toons. They have problems with their computer. We took five computers to fix at Liger. Luckily we fixed two of them already! The other organization is Green Umbrella, and theyhave a problem with their website so we helped to fix it.
If you want to know more about UWCSEA, Tiny Toones and Green Umbrella click on the logos beside to visit them.
Exploration Name: Future Careers
Exploration Dates: March 10th – May 2nd
Number of Students: 12
Essential Questions:
1. How will jobs that help Cambodia look different in the future?
2. What motivates people to choose the job they do?
Description: In Exploration round five we learned about Future Careers. We learned about how jobs will help Cambodia in the future. On the first day, we did personal profiles. We had to include our name, our strengths, our favorite things and our goal. We did that because we wanted everyone to know us when they came to our school. We also had a trip to SGFE (Sustainable Green Fuel Enterprise). It is the place where they make charcoal out of coconut shells. It really helps Cambodia because they take the waste pickers to work in there so that they have a good job and they can get money for their children to go to school. Also, they help the environment by recycling things. The next thing we did was the research project. We researched about the global problems. We got to choose our own topics. The topics were about Mekong River, chemicals in the food, poverty, nuclear energy, dengue fever and etc. Then, we went to job shadow. It means we are the shadow of the worker. We interviewed them about how they are working. Everyone got to go to two workplaces. The places that we went to are Northbridge International School, Plantation hotel, Small Word, Osja studio, A.N.D and more.
My research project is below.
Below is my personal profile.
Exploration Name: VaPAC
Exploration Dates: Jan 20 to Mar 7
Number of students: 12 students
Description: My group name is VaPAC. It stands for Visual and Performing Arts Cambodia. Our group areas are trip, sign language and mask-making. First I want to talk about the trip. Our group trip was going to Kampot Province. We went there to learn about the Cambodian arts and the disabled people. When we went there we knew that the disabled people can communicate by using sign language. Sign language is so important for the disabled people. We also learned some sign language too. The disabled people can do arts too. They do it by using movement. The next area is mask-making. Our group made the own mask. The mask is made by the paper. It took a lot of time to make one mask. When we finished doing the mask-making we designed what it will look like. The design can be used for performing. It also can be used for sale and hang it on the wall. Our goal was to make the story and do it by using the movement. When we do the movement we can’t say anything.
After we came back from Kampot, we made reflection about epic art. Below is my reflection.
We did a lot of things in Epic Art. Below are the video of what we done in Epic Art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQnHideo3Xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e63xg1s7zE
The Video of Happy Video in Epic Art is below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvtmlJQSMs
Exploration Name: Crisis Management
Exploration Dates: November 20th-January 17th
Number of students: 11
Essential Questions/Areas: 1. What is a crisis?
2. How do people, especially in Cambodia, manage crises?
3. What are natural disasters and how are they related to crises?
Description: In our crisis Exploration we learned a lot of things that happen outside in the environment. Crisis is the bad thing that happens to people and is unsafe to people. Example: the cars are crashing or the train is falling. We learned about what is a natural disaster. Natural disasters are caused by nature. Natural disasters are: earthquakes, avalanches, and storms, for example. Then we talked about a volcano. A volcano is the mountain that has magma inside. When it is erupting out, the magma will turn to lava. Lava can make islands when it touches the cold place and it turns to the rock. Crisis management is how the aid workers help people when there is a crisis. One way they help is by evacuating people away. Example: when it has a flood, aid workers evacuate people out to the safe place. We also took a trip to share with the students at the government school at Takhmao City. We chose this school because this is the old school that two Liger students have learned at before. We taught the students who were in grades 5 and 6. We shared some things that we learned like floods, storms, earthquakes, and avalanches. The students werevery smart to answer the questions and understand the information.
In class, we make presentation to make sure we understand what we’ve learned. Also, we make presentation to share with other students, so they learn what we learned. Below are the presentation that Crisis Management class made.
Exploration Name: Newspapers
Exploration Dates: October 7 to November 19
Number of students: 12
Essential Questions:
(1) Why do we have newspapers?
(2) Historically, what have newspapers sought to do?
(3) How is the purpose enhanced or diminished by external factors (freedom of speech, infrastructure)?
(4) What do reporters do and what are their ethical responsibilities?
(5) What is the process of creating a newspaper from start to finish? What role does technology play?
Description:
In our newspaper class we had a lot of hard things to do but there were fun things to do too. The first thing we did was get introduced to some of the old and famous newspapers. Later on we got the name of one of the newspapers and did the research in pairs or groups. On Friday afternoon we had assembly so we did our presentation one by one. Everyday we learned new things about newspapers and it was very exciting. The most hard and exciting part was we made our own newspaper about our school. Also we went on a late night trip to the Phnom Penh Post printing press at 10:00pm. It was so late we got to sleep in the teacher apartment. The name of our newspaper is Liger Post. We sold it at NISC, ICan, coffee shops and restaurants. At the end we made about $280. We gave some to the Documentary group to do the bike race and some to the orphanage at Siem Reap. Each student on the team also got some money, about $8 each.
There was a big sharation for Newspaper class. Below are the presentation the presentation that we made.
Exploration Name: Simple Machines (Toys)
Exploration Dates: August 12 – September 26
Number of students: 13
Essential Questions:
1. What are simple machines?
2. What is mechanical advantage?
3. How can simple machines be used to create engaging interactive toys and why is toy creation a powerful form of learning?
Description: In our Exploration class we learned about simple machines and how to make toys using cams (it is like a circle, like wheel and axle) + simple machines. Simple machines can make some jobs easier to do. We learned about wedges, levers, pulleys, inclined planes, gears, screws, wheels and axles. Each of these things have different advantages and disadvantages. Levers are the most used in real life. Levers can be anything you hold. Ex. sword handle, computer lid, all of those things are levers. When we started we learned about how to use simple machines in our toys. We watched a lot of videos to understand and to get new ideas. We first built toys for testing our project. It worked but it was too small and not good enough. We researched more and then we got more ideas from books, computers and videos. When we had enough knowledge and enough information, we got an idea and we worked in teams. We thought that to make our toy more interactive, we have to get some paint to make it colorful. When we finished the toy we planned a trip with our teacher to Takeo province. Our trip was not long just half a day travel and half a day at NFO to teach the students there about simple machines and how to make toys. We came back to set up for our presentation in the big area. All of Liger students came to see us and learn from each other.
When we make our toys, we write the process and put some picture in one website called Instuctable. To see my group’s toy instructable, visit this link: http://www.instructables.com/id/Sreynith-And-Thiny-Machine/
