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| Science (fiction) week.. Basil leaves scent from my R&C group 2012:::::: and one of the better project (electrifying the plant) |
And true to the theme the ExaMachs do transform Science into Fantasy. I mean, how can a project presenter explains that aluminium can stores heat better, or that 4 spoonful of sugar and 4 spoonful of salt are of same concentration and.. and that hot air flows downward.. oh my god! What a fantasy world our ExaMachs live in!
Out of 41 projects (sounds grand - but as Hokkien people said Boh Liau) only 2 or 3 projects are worthy to be called science projects (and least to say of Kebangsaan level). The rest are typical exam-oriented laboratory works or magic shows. Chemistry projects that are done with no chemical principles, Mathematics projects with no background in mathematics principles or rules, Science experiments with no controls - had the Jitsin students not taught of these in class or lab?
Yucks! What an insult that my intelligence had to endure as a judge for today and (OMG) tomorrow again.
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LOL for the last sentence~ But ｍｙ ｓｉｓ ｔｏｌｄ ｍｅ ｔｈｉｓ ｙｅａｒ's exhibition is big and so much fun compared with last year~ U be the judge? Haha,sad for the students.
ReplyDeleteWow that criticism you wrote were harsh, but very true. ==
ReplyDeleteBut sometimes some projects need apparatus that are hard to find and difficult to get and extremely expensive. I was a participant last year, and we found a lot actually but some require apparatus or materials that are too expensive and difficult to find. The magnet my team used last year was actually bought from Amazon.com, and it ain't cheap. ==
It is a science week, and it is supposed to show the ingenuity of Jitsinians (who are supposed to be among the top students of Penang) in doing science, and if what are dished out has nothing (not even anything to show that there are any science works) then Jitsinians are real ExaMachs only. Science projects need apparatus and materials (and we had the money to buy them) or we can actually make these apparatus at the school level.. of course if you can do it at a higher level like building gauss gun capable of launching a passenger capsule (by all means do it). Dishing out laboratory experiments or magic shows or solving mathematics problems taken from text books are not activities fit for this school.
ReplyDeleteThat.....umm....I have to agree. Lol. =)
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