The 2nd International Science Youth Forum 2010 (ISYF 2010) Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore
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A. Objectives
1 Inspire Passion for Science Amongst Youth. ISYF aims to provide high – ability students with ample opportunity to be innovative and creative. The programmed hopes to develop in them a global mindset in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
2 Establish Cooperation and Friendship amongst Young Talented Science Students. Students will have many opportunities to interact and form strong bonds with one another.
3 Build Capacities of Science Educators. Through professional sharing, training, workshops and networking with scientists and among science educator, ISYF helps build the competencies of teachers.
4 The forum aims also to provide students with an avenue for intellectual dialogue and engagement with Nobel Laureates and other eminent scientists.
This will create greater awareness amongst the youth about the importance of broad-based knowledge, diverse, interests, deep passion, tenacity and a global perspective in the pursuit of science excellence.
B. Descriptions
The second International Science Youth Forum (ISYF) Singapore 2010 aim to encourage mutual exchange and sharing of knowledge, skill and experiences.
C. Participants :
1. I Made Pageh Yasa, S.Pd (Teacher)
2. I Gede Bagus Ananda Pratama (student)
3. I Gusti Agung Ari Keresna Narayana (student)
4. Putu Wisnu Arya Wardana (student)
D. The participating schools are:
1 Malaysia (SMJK Chung Ling Pulau Pinang) and (TheMalayCollege Kuala Kangsar)
2 Thailand (TriamudomSuksaSchool) and (SuratpittayaSchool)
3 Philippine ( Philippine science High School)
4 Vietnam (High School for Gifted Pupils) and (Dao Duy Tu High School)
5 Indonesia ( SMAN 4 Dps) andBinusInternationalSchool Simprug)
6 China (The High School ofXianJiaotongUniversity) and (ShanghaiEastYananMiddle School)
7 Hongkong (DiocesanGirlsSchool)
8 Taiwan (TaipeiMunicipalJianguoHigh School) and ( Taipei First Girls high School)
9 Japan (Senior High School at Otsuka) and (AzabuHigh School)
10 Korea ( Korean Minjok Leadership academy)
11 Brunei Darussalam
D. Performing
Day : Monday - Saturday
Date : 18th- 22nd January 2010
Place : Hwa-Chong Institution,Singapore.
E. Schedule for Educators
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Day 0 |
17 Jan (Sunday) |
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Students' activities |
Educators' activities |
Attire |
Information |
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Whole day |
Arrival of participants |
Arrival of participants |
Casual |
We were depart in Changi airport at 10.00 am. We picked up by Ong Kai Zhi and Lee Liu Yi |
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18 00 |
Dinner |
Dinner |
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Dinner in Hwa Chong Institution |
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HCIBS |
HCIBS |
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19 00 |
Briefing for Day 1 |
Briefing for Day 1 |
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Got briefing about rule who shall be followed |
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SRC LT |
SRC LT |
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rule uses to dress by Ong Kai Zhi and Lee Liu Yi |
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20 30 |
Free time |
Free time |
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Went to sleep |
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22 30 |
Lights off |
Lights off |
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Day 1 |
18 Jan (Monday) |
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Time |
Students' activities |
Educators' activities |
Attire |
Information |
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06 30 |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
D1 T-shirt |
breakfast in Hwa Chong Institution |
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HCIBS |
HCIBS |
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07 10 |
Attend morning assembly |
Attend morning assembly |
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Introduced the participant from each country by Ong Kai Zhi and Lee Liu Yi |
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School Field |
School Field |
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08 00 |
Welcome Address |
Welcome Address |
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Got briefing about rule who shall be followed and activities who will be performed by Ong Kai Zhi and Lee Liu Yi |
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SRC LT |
SRC LT |
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09 00 |
Tour around college |
Meet Principal session |
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presentation about Hwa Chong institution from vice Principal |
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SRC LT |
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10 00 |
Brainstorm for dialogue session |
Tour around college & Preparation for Workshop |
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Tour Around environment of hwa chong institution |
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Hall |
E205 |
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12 00 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
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Lunch In Hwa Chong Institution |
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College Canteen |
College Canteen |
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14 00 |
Amazing Race |
Science Centre Workshop |
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workshop about how to make ice cream and saw design saint in Science center |
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Downtown |
Science Centre |
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20 00 |
Back to HCIBS |
Back to HCIBS |
Casual |
went to bed (Sleep) |
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22 30 |
Lights off |
Lights off |
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Day 2 |
19 Jan (Tuesday) |
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Time |
Students' activities |
Educators' activities |
Attire |
Information |
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07 00 |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Casual |
breakfast in Hwa Chong Institution
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HCIBS |
HCIBS |
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08 00 |
Cultural Hour |
Cultural Hour |
D2 T-shirt |
presentation about each culture from some country |
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SRC LT |
SRC LT |
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09 00 |
Dialogue 1 with Nobel Laureates |
Dialogue 1 with Nobel Laureates |
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Dialogue about recent development in science, discussion did by students with Prof. Jerome I. Friedman |
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E201 - E204 |
E201 - E204 |
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10 30 |
Preparation for Research Symposium |
Educators with Nobel Laureates 1 |
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Dialogue about "what should we be teaching our kids" by Prof. David J. Gross, Dr. Richard J. Roberts, Prof. Jerome I. Friedman, Prof. Douglas D. Osheroff, and Dr Phyllis Osheroff |
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Outside auditorium |
E205 |
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12 00 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
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Lunch in the college canteen |
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College Canteen |
College Canteen |
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14 00 |
Science Research Symposium & Poster Presentation (with tea reception) |
Science Research Symposium & Poster Presentation (with tea reception) |
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Presentation about science research symposium from Hwa Chong Institution and Suratpittaya School from Thailand. The giving appreciation to professors in HCI |
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Auditorium |
Auditorium |
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17 30 |
Back to HCIBS |
Back to HCIBS |
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Dinner in the HClBS |
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18 00 |
Night Safari Tour |
Night Safari Tour |
D3 T-shirt |
Visited the Night Safari, we saw some animals |
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22 00 |
Back to HCIBS |
Back to HCIBS |
Casual |
went to bed (Sleep) |
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22 30 |
Lights off |
Lights off |
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Day 3 |
20 Jan (Wednesday) |
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Time |
Students' activities |
Educators' activities |
Attire |
Information |
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07 00 |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Casual |
breakfast in Hwa Chong Institution |
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HCIBS |
HCIBS |
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08 00 |
Cultural Hour |
Cultural Hour |
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presentation about each culture from some country |
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SRC LT |
SRC LT |
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09 00 |
Dialogue 2 with Nobel Laureates |
Dialogue 2 with Nobel Laureates |
Formal school uniform |
Dialogue about science and innovation as solution for a sustainable word by Prof. Jerome I. Friedman |
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E201 - E204 |
E201 - E204 |
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10 30 |
Book Circle |
Educators' Sharing |
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Share about culture, research and school by Prof. David J. Gross. |
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E201 - E204 & E301 |
E205 |
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12 00 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
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Lunch in the college canteen |
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College Canteen |
College Canteen |
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14 00 |
Main Ceremony: Nobel Forum |
Main Ceremony: Nobel Forum |
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Presentation about science research from Nobel Laureates Prof. David J. Grossand give souvenir to professor |
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Auditorium |
Auditorium |
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17 30 |
Back to HCIBS |
Back to HCIBS |
Casual |
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18 30 |
Dinner (HCIBS) |
Dinner |
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Dinner in HCIBS |
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19 30 |
Preparation for A*STAR attachment |
Preparation for A*STAR attachment |
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free program |
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HCIBS |
HCIBS |
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22 30 |
Lights off |
Lights off |
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Went to bed |
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Day 4 |
21 Jan (Thursday) |
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Time |
Students' activities |
Educators' activities |
Attire |
Information |
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07 00 |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Casual |
Breakfast in HCIBS
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HCIBS |
HCIBS |
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08 00 |
Cultural Hour |
Cultural Hour |
D4 T-shirt |
presentation about each culture from some country |
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SRC LT |
SRC LT |
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09 00 |
Dialogue 3 with Nobel Laureates |
Dialogue 3 with Nobel Laureates |
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Dialogue about the future of science education by Prof. Douglas D. Osheroff. |
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E201 - E204 |
E201 - E204 |
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10 30 |
A*STAR Attachment |
A*STAR Attachment |
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Participant were A*Star. There, all participants divided in to 6 groups and tried to understand about science by doing experiment. The experiments such as, made polymers, macro molecular, development of fish embryo, and then, educators went to Singapore Flayer and Merlion Park. |
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Fusionopolis |
Fusionopolis |
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18 00 |
Back to HCIBS |
Free & Easy |
Casual |
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18 30 |
Dinner (HCIBS) |
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20 00 |
Dialogue report discussion |
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Free Program |
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HCIBS |
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22 30 |
Lights off |
Lights off |
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Went to bed |
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Day 5 |
22 Jan (Friday) |
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Time |
Students' activities |
Educators' activities |
Attire |
Information |
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07 00 |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Casual |
Breakfast in HCIBS |
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HCIBS |
HCIBS |
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08 00 |
Cultural Hour |
Cultural Hour |
D5 T-shirt |
presentation about each culture from some country |
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SRC LT |
SRC LT |
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09 00 |
Dialogue 4 with Nobel Laureates |
Dialogue 4 with Nobel Laureates |
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Dialogue about Science, Innovation & The future by Prof. Douglas D. Osheroff, |
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E201 - E204 |
E201 - E204 |
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10 30 |
Students' focused group discussion |
Educators with Nobel Laureates 2 |
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Dialogue about Science, Innovation & The future by Prof. David J. Gross, Dr. Richard J. Roberts, Prof. Jerome I. Friedman, Prof. Douglas D. Osheroff, Dr Phyllis Osheroff, Prof. Lim Tit Meng and Prof. Subramaniam |
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E303 - E305 & Computer Lab |
SCR LT |
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12 00 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
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Lunch in college Canteen
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College Canteen |
College Canteen |
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13 00 |
Visit to School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences |
Work plan session & Sharing |
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Each Participant presented about the activities already done in ISYF 2010 (Implementation in each school) |
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NTU |
Computer lab |
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18 00 |
Dinner & Dance |
Dinner & Dance |
Formal casual |
Present souvenir from Hwa Chong Institution to All Educators, exchange souvenir between participants, performed Culture from all country |
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Raffles Town Club |
Raffles Town Club |
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22 00 |
Back to HCIBS |
Back to HCIBS |
Casual |
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22 30 |
Lights off |
Lights off |
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Went to bed (sleep) |
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Day 6 |
23 Jan (Saturday) |
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Time |
Students' activities |
Educators' activities |
Attire |
Information |
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07 00 |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Casual |
Prepared went back to Indonesia |
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HCIBS |
HCIBS |
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Whole day |
Departure |
Departure |
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F. Students And Educators Programme Highlights
a. The Amazing Race
Kick off your week long ISYF journey with an exciting race around the sunnyislandofSingapore. Complete the various ROADBLOCK task which will require you to put your science knowledge to test; Unite as a team to outwit, outrun and outplay all the others as you strive to be the first to arrive at the PIT STOP-there are attractive prizes to be won
b. Dialogue With Nobel Laureates
The dialogue session is a key avenue for students and educators to engage in intellectual discussion and close interaction with Nobel Laureates and other eminent scientists.
During this daily feature, join them in pondering difficult issues, perhaps catching a clearer glimpse of the characters behind the outstanding achievements and the life of one dedicated to science progress.
Nobel Laureates and Panel Speakers:
1. Professor David J. Gross (Professor Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,University ofCalifornia atSanta Barbara,USA)
2. Dr. Richard J. Roberts (Joint Research Director,New England Biolabs)
3. Professor Jerome I. Friedman (Professor,MIT,USA)
4. Professor Douglas D. Osheroff (Professor, Stanford, USA)
5. Dr. Phyllis Osheroff (Scientific Advisor, Cheng Xin Tecnology Development Corp,Taiwan)
6. Associate Professor Lim Tit Meng (NUS,Singapore)
7. Associate Professor Subramaniam s/o Ramanathan (NIE, NIU, Singapore)
c. Culture Hour
Share with fellow participants some information about your school, country and culture. At the same time, gain a deeper understanding of other culture and appreciation of our culture diversity.
d. Book Circle
Share your thoughts about a book with your friends and spread the joy of reading! Each particular role in the group offers a chance to contribute in a unique way towards a fruitful discussion. In the process, you will be able to enhance your reading skills and examine perspectives other than your own,
OUR ACTIVITIES DETAILS
Day 0 Sunday, 17 January 2010
Arrival on HwaChongInstitusionBoarding Schoolin the afternoon. We go to our room and put bag and every thing. We rest a moment and after that we have lunch at 12 pm and until 6 pm we going around the boarding school and escorted by facilitators. At 6 pm we have dinner together with other participants I was surprise that I can met many talent students on their country around asia. We are going make friends and communicate with them During the Dinner we also have short briefing for tomorrow Monday. They said we must not woke up late and be punctual also wearing IYSF Red polo T-shirt And after we finished we must go for light off.
Day 1 Monday, 18 January 2010
Wake up at 5 am and take a bath and get ready for the the first day.We have breakfast at 06.30 am on the dining hall. After that we must go attend morning assembly on School field. This is the open ceremony for us and introduces the guest to the principle and the other students on HwaChong Institution. We also watch the flag ceremony of Singaporean students and their marching band. At 8.00 am we are going to Sciences Research Centre (SRC) to attend welcome address from committee of IYSF. At 9.00, we tour around college and prepare for brainstorm at 10 am at Hall. We do many task and discussion about the topic that given by us since December 2009. Each group has their own topic and unique fat Question to us. After that, we have to create a poster to represent our thought. After finished we go for lunch on college canteen. We eat green rice and it’s very exciting coz we haven’t met any green rice before. Haha At 2 pm we are ready for Rocks! Amazing Race!! We split into nine groups and must hanging around Singaporeto do many task, riddle, solving the problem related to Physic, Biology, Math, and Chemistry. Every group has two facilitators to bringing us to first station at MarinaBay. We must answer the question related to tourism object in the first. After that, we go to Esplanade for our sake and solve physic problem on there. Next, we go to whealt fountain. We solve genetic code problem and we getting more enthusiastic. Our group must have good teamwork and trust to the others. The final station is on the Singapore Flyer!! Wow! It is amazing after we tired run and run seeing many things at the end we fly on the aboveSingapore at night!
Wow, this is very beautiful! Sg flyers are the biggest flyer in the world and have big capacity in every dock. So fantastic, isn’t it? haha. Near that SG flyer we also have dinner at MakanSutra. We have to choose free for own food we want. After dinner, we are going back to HCI boarding school and light off.
Day 2 Tuesday 19 January 2010
We have breakfast in the morning and at 8 am, we have culture hour. Students presentated their country culture and their school. At 9 am we have go to classroom to have dialogue with Nobel Laureates. We have dialogue with Professor David J. Gross. The Discussed opened by moderator Kong Hong Nan. The topic that we discussed is about the sciences most important and relevant in today’s context. We are very enthusiastic especially ari kresna that have brave to ask question to Professor. Hoh wow!
After we have focused dialogue with Nobel laureates, we have to prepare our research symposium and poster. At 12 pm, we have lunch at college canteen. I like this menu especially the curry, grilled fish and pork. They are very delicious and Singaporean food. Near the Chinese New Year, they have preparation to make pork. Therefore, these are so many. (Haha). After that we have to presentated our poster and attended the symposium by keynote from NTU at auditotium in the college. At 17.30 pm, we go back to HCIBS. At 18.00, we go to Nigth Safari! wow it’s so exciting and make me feel the true beauty of our nature in the world. At Night safari in SG we can see many creature and animal from different ecosystem especially tropic forest, desert, seabed, savanna, and so on. We also watch attraction from Humbawamba Forest Group. They perform Fire Burst attraction. They are very fantastic like fire man! Burst Burst ! Like a fire Dragon.. At 22.00 pm, we go back to HCIBS and Light Off.
Day 3 Wednesday 20 January 2010
As well, we have breakfast at 6.30 am. We perform our culture fromBaliat cultural hour. We were doing the best for that time! Yeahh ! At 9 am, we have focused dialogue with Professor Osheroff. Today topic is “are the social responsibilities faced by scientist becoming more complicated in recent times” We have though time to thinking deep about that problem. We must see it from many aspect included social, ethic, and culture.
But at the end we are very satisfaction for what we learn from Professor Osheroff.
At 10.30 am we have to do book circle with our teammate and discussed it base on our role. I (ari kresna) become connector must present the connection between text and the relevant in our life. My book is about Mary Curi Biography. The thickness is about 330 papers and writes down in English. Every student has 1,5 month to reading their books and prepare for their role in the book circle today. The discussion is very amazing. We share many things base on our knowledge in reading the books. I get much knowledge and of course, the moral message from the book. After book circle, we have to go to college canteen. We have lunch on there. At 14.00 am, we have main ceremony Nobel Forum at auditorium. After that, we get back to HCIBS and we have dinner at Dining Hall. At 19.30 we have to attend A*STAR attachment. The other and I have to separated and go to many place. My group and I go to Biopolis. We see many scientists doing research in Biopolis and we sit and see the presentation educator Biopolis. At 22.30 we go back to HCIBS and Light Off.
Day 4 Thursday, 21 January 2010
As well, we have breakfast and cultural hour. At 9 am, we have focus dialogue with Nobel laureates. Today topic focused on. After that, we go to Fusiopolis at 10.30 am. We get back to HCIBS at 6 pm and have breakfast at dining hall. For the rest of time we discuses the dialogue and make report. We also practice for the dance item for dinner and dance at Raffles Town on tomorrow Friday. At 10.30 pm light off
Day 5 Friday 22 January 2010
Ow man,. Every one face looks pale. Why? Because this is the last day we have and doing many activities together. At 9 am, we have focus dialogue and this is the last to met the professor. Therefore, we take a photo with them. At 10.30 am, we have to do group discussion at computer lab. After that we also submitted it to committee. At12 pm, time for lunch at college canteen. At 1 pm we visitNanyangTechnologyUniversity. After that we go back to HCIBS and preparation for go toRafflesTown. We wear formal dress, pantofel, and blazer. We from SMAN 4 Denpasar perform Jauk Dance. We are attract all of participants because our costume are so great. Haha. After that, we perform our Group dance. This moment are very well and make this night become unforgettable. We also take many pictures with the other participant and committee or facilitators. After at 11 pm we go back to HCIBS. And light off.
Day 6 Saturday 23 January 2010
Have breakfast with sad on eyes and pale on face. With farewell and exchange souvenir with the participants. The whole days are free. Therefore, we hanging aroundSingaporeuntil flight go back toBaliat 6 pm.
D. Conclusion
a. This activities is very good to development Science and knowledge for teachers and students
b. We can understand culture from other country.
c. We have more a lot of friends from other country
d. We can exchange of think about experience teaches
e. Than other country, we need to study again about discipline, cleanness, authority of ICT.
E. Suggestions
a. To can rival of the other country, we shall more study energetic again about ICT, management of teaching and learning processes.
b. Adding of facilities as experiment tools (Chemistry, Biology, Physic, computer, sporting tools, etc)
c. Increase of discipline, cleanness in the school.
d. Follow always this program, because it is important to knowledge and science development of teachers and students.
