Aquaponics

Aquaponic is “a system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish or other aquatic creatures supplies the nutrients for plants grown hydroponically, which in turn purify the water.” In this project we have two big goals: self sustain/running system and implementing it to rural area. To achieve this goal we started with background research to further our knowledge about the system as a whole and we learned many things. After deep research we gather the team to create prototypes for the aquaponics. After a long process we came up with a final design with specific measurement and material. Then we work on constructing the aquaponic with siphon and filter. Soon we will add fish and crops.

America History

One of the areas that we cover in literacy this year is America history. We think learning about America history will help us to explore the world more also it will help us to be prepare for SAT. We did many reading, writing and discussing in this class about the history. This is one my my short poems about the history.

 

Why black was shot

Why black was fraught

Why black was bitted

For a crime that they did not committed

 

Life is not fair

Black given opinion was rare

So there no equality

Cause all the laws was for White-free.

The Test (SAT)

During this past weeks, Liger students are preparing for SAT. In math, I worked on improving my test taking skill by using many strategies: timing, skipping, guessing and do good in SAT. I think KhanAcademy really helped me because I can work all day; they still have courses for me to practices more. My goal for SAT is 1200+.

Chemistry

One of the essentials for this year is chemistry and one of the things that we learn about in chemistry is emission. During the period we learn how different reaction between flame and salt give a different color. After the session, we did a mini experiment and this what we found.

 

Compound

Color of Flame (qualitative)

Wavelengths of light (in NM) (quantitative)

Barium Chloride Yellow 570
Calcium Chloride Orange 610
Copper (II) Chloride Green 612.5
Lithium Chloride Red 586.8
Potassium Chloride Light red 630
Strontium Chloride Pink, Red 589.4

Unknown #1

Light red 630

 

In addition to the data, I also get to drawn the map of our classroom.

College Fair

It was a wonderful experience that give me a chance to see what are different choices for me in the future. I went to college fair to see what are some unique university/college that I can get the opportunity to go in the future. It was very crowned event that students all around PP came to participated. Universities all around USA came to the fair and give more information about their education and what are some unique things about them. All students get many chances to talk to more than 20 universities. One of my favorite universities was Colorado Bolder. One thing that I learn was, university want the students that can give them good reputation. If you are very good, you have a very good chance to find good university.  

Camkids Survey

March 4th, a group more than a dozen students from Liger went to Kampong Speu to do interviewed to quantify the quality of people live before and after Camkids made. In this exploration, we want to learn how to create a survey and analyze data in a formal way. Our first goal to do a survey on is Camkids and its community.  We made many questions to qualify the quality of life in Camkids and some other community and the questions a divided into 6 section: income and expense, loan, Saving group, education, and health&nutrition. Our plan is to do 100 surveys and one survey take about 40 minutes. Due to the time limit of our group (an exploration group of 7 members) recruited around 7 to 8 more students, and we did 100 survey and still, have a lot of time left. Everyone did around 5-7 survey and it took around 5-6 hours in three villages. After finish more than 100 surveys we came back and arrive school around 7:00 PM. The day after we input the answer into the spreadsheet and it took us a week. We finally did it but except we need to analyze the data. So our last step is to analyze and write a good/formal paper.