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Ap Statistic

In math class this year (2017-2018) we are taking an AP Statistic course. This is really hard for me because it requires a lot of writing for open response questions and the writing part is not my strength also this course is created for college level and I study in the second language. The course takes about a year to finish and we need to work really hard to be on our plan and it takes me more time than other classmate because of the reading. One of hardest contents that make we really confuse is Logarithm, on the other hand, one of the most favorites contents is Z score because it really requires a lot of calculation.

    

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Black Hole and White Hole

During class period our teacher assigned us to work and do some research about the black hole and white hole so we can give a presentation to our classmate to improve their understanding of the idea. I was in a team of threes including me; we divided job to a particular member of our team and what we need to do to reach our goal. For me I did some research on what is a black hole, it apparent, and how it created. I was really enjoyed while doing some research about how it created. One of my favorite statement in my research said “After the black hole star explodes for 1 second it will create 100 times, more than the energy that sun will produce for it whole life spend.

My Google Slide Link

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e4nzzJc09VCeOrCxzSmOtWyhyIa3CTaxbYEjtNBv8AY/edit#slide=id.g2770ca0698_1_0   

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Pchum Ben

Pchum Ben is one of the biggest Cambodia’s ceremonies it happens during  September. It a ceremony that makes most of Cambodian stop from doing work and comes with their family and goes to the pagoda. They believe that all the relative that died will go to hell or heaven but for the relative that goes to hell, they don’t have enough food to serve themselves. People believe going to the pagoda and pray to the relative will help the relative that goes to hell from hunger. Also it a way that will help the monks from starving because it a rainy season and the monks can’t go and gather the food for themselves. I know all this information be doing the research in Khmer class.

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Literacy

English Literacy is one of the hardest subjects for me because I learn it as my second language. I think when I’m in the class it really hard for me to write any paper by using correct grammar and following the standard writing, including wording and sentence structure. One of the things that I really like about this year in literacy class is that our teacher gave us to write about the event anytime in the past when you felt that it helped you to become a mature and a more adult looking person. When I write the paper it really helps me to reflects, how I become more mature and why the event really important for me to understand and learn from it. Not only I can understand myself better but it really helps me with my English writing.

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Waste Management

Waste Management is one of the exploration that trying to work on a better solution that helps to recycle the waste in a community and in an environment. Our goal is that to recycle the organic waste into fertilizer. In the exploration we need to learn about the business plane; how to implement this idea into a real business so it can sustain. Also, we need to learn to make a good fertilizer from organic waste because if you don’t have a good product your business will bankrupt. To learn about the process of creating the fertilizer, our group went to an organization that makes fertilizer from organic waste in Battambang, Cambodia. One thing that we already did before we went to Battambang is that we already made fertilizer and we can make it by researching online.  Going to Battambang really help us to understand what we did good and what we did wrong and need to improve also we learned a lot of information about fertilizer and market for our product. Coming back to Liger and now our compost is finish so we can test it with plants and see our fertilizer quality. We know that the fertilizer is not the best but it is very good fertilizer that can use for planting.

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Changing Cambodia 2016-2017

 

The greatest thing in your life is to have the agency no matter if you change yourself, your family or further more, your community and country and even the world. You can improve yourself and you can improve people and the situation around you to make the best outcome. All people do that in their life also me I do that in my life all the time. Now I am 15, and I made some changes to some problems that is happening in Cambodia by giving solutions to illuminate the problem. Two of the biggest things that I had done in 2017 and it have affect other people to be aware of problem are Preventative Health and Waste Management.

 

One of my best experience is to live  on the island and helped people in that island and that because I get to join one exploration call Preventative Health. Preventative Health is one of the explorations that occurred in Liger and this exploration made a strong effect to people that are living on the island. In this exploration, we tried to find problems that start to emerge in other places and try to alarm people in the island to be aware of it and we give some solution that help them to stay away from that health problem. We focus on one island called Koh Rong that located in Sihanoukville and we try to focus on that island because it is very far of main land and if they have problem with their health they need to take about nine hours to get to Phnom Penh (capital city of Cambodia) to get help and if they spend so long to get to Phnom Penh to get help. They might have some worst affect more than they expected and maybe the problem could take their life. So we come up with two health problem and the solution for the people that live in the island one of them is teeth problem and another one is sugar. After finding problem we learn from the other professor about the problem and how to cure it or prevent it from the problem. So we come up with one idea that can show two problem in one time and the idea is to make the play. We design our own customs and we write our own play. So the play talk about two childs that one have diabetes and one have teeth problem. So their mother tries to get help from the doctor and the suggestion is to do sport, brushing teeth and eat less sugar. We are very ready with almost all the thing we practice the play about more than 10 times and I act as bacteria and one of the reason I be a bacteria because I am the smallest. The mission start and the information is ready to share the island. We travel from PP to Koh Rong and it take about nines hours we arrive at about 3:00 at the afternoon. Our teacher have a plane to go and implement the idea into two schools one is in the iceland that we stay and on more in in the other island. Before we start teaching the other students we learn from the mentor that live in the island. We learn about the island location and places and also about the health problem. One of the OMG information is that one woman have more than half of all the teeth pulled out. So most of the problem in the island is teeth problem. Luckily we also include the teeth problem in the play. The first school that we show our plays to is the school that is very close the place that we stay. For my opinion they learn about the plays a lot and I know that because they asking question and also they laugh when we show them the part in the play that is not right to do. Also we suggest them to tell their families to be aware of the problem and also they can help with their parents, sisters, brothers, and everyone that they know and help when there is a problem. The next day come and everyone in my group ready for the next school. We show the same exact same thing but they a lot younger than the other school. The play happen but the thing is that they not really understand what is the play show about. I can say that the school less effective than the other one because they learned but they don’t really help other or they can’t really remember in long term. One of my best highlight is that my group and I not go there because of teaching the students but also to learn about the marine environment and the threat of marine life. We did scuba dive and snorkel to see the marine life. We learn about this and also in the future we can change help with the marine life and make we can to dissipate that threat to marine life. Change is very powerful and I think this exploration is one of the biggest change that very affected to many people that live in the island. Also after my group and I make the change the students will make the change after our change.

 

Doing one big thing that help to change Cambodia is very powerful and maybe you want to get some other chances to make more change and that when the I get another chance. As you know the world is facing big problem and it is climate change. We know that the climate and the temperature is rising up so Cambodia is one of the countries get the most affected by the climate change because our country depend on agriculture and we also deppen on raining. This year I get a interesting experience and it is joining Waste Management exploration. I believe that if we find a good solution for our country the problem will be reduce and everyone will have a better future. Our exploration is focus on making leftover organic food into compost that can use for doing agriculture. We want to focus on the compost because as our research tell that about 80% of the waste including plastic is organic waste. If we take 80% of the waste away to make compost it save about of many thing like money and environment. One thing that we need to remember is that we want to help and also make the process sustainable so we need to learn about some business. We learn what price should we sell compost for and also the the cost on expense and also the income. Also we need to be expert how to make compost that can help environment and also it help the farmer to not use a lot of chemical in their farming process. After our exploration we got our business plan done and we know how to make compost very well. If this business go well I believe that this idea will help to the environment and also it make too many people especially farmer. If you look in the bigger scale we can say that if your compost work well it will help the farmer to get better outcome and also we are the part of the climate change curer because we can help with the environment a lot.   

 

In conclusion change is very powerful and as I mention no matter if you change yourself, change your family or maybe change your country unless it not change toward bad thing it is powerful. I think I am one of the change to many people in Cambodia. I was 10 when I first came to Liger and since that time my life is getting more affective to many people. I did many good things that affect people to have a better understanding of the problem or improving people skills and abilities. I have two explorations that impact to many people life in good ways. One of the exploration is Preventative Health. Preventative Health is the exploration that help many people on the island that don’t have doctor and they don’t know how to stay away from the problem. We went to the island and we teach them many good things that can help them and also their families so they don’t need to have the health problem and travel about nine hours until can get proper help from professional. For me in to get to be part of the exploration I might save someone life in the future. My second impress exploration is Waste Management. I love environment around me and I want to do something with it no matter if I try and don’t have effect or even have small effect but I want to make change. In this exploration I think that it really help the environment and also help many farmers. Making waste that affect to environment and create compost the can help people around you and I think this is very brilliant idea. In the future I think this exploration will have big effect to many people and it can help the world too. I think this are the two things that I did and help my community my country and also the world. My last word is that change is very powerful if you do it right.

 

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Changing Cambodia 2015-2016

I am one of student 50 student in Liger learning center (LLC). LLC is very unique school that most of people in the world can’t be like us. Our goal is to change Cambodia in the future. The reality is that we already change Cambodia and a lot. For me I think a lot of think that I change is people’s behavior. When I go out people being rude and other stuff but I am being respect to them sometime they feel bad because and he maybe one to change his behavior. Two of big think that I change Cambodia is one in project-based-learning mean that when we learn about we not just listen to the teacher because people are boring and sometime they don’t want to learn. With project-based- learning when we learn about one thing we go outside explore and create a sample. One another big thing is that wildlife Guide. wildlife Guide is our exploration and we create a book call The Illustrated Guide to Cambodia Wildlife. We create that book because a lot people in Cambodia they can’t learn about animal and they don’t know how important is, if they know they will care about each species of wildlife. Another thing is that a lot of people can’t see the real wildlife how they look like what they eat when we create this book people in Cambodia will know more about Wildlife

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Developing government curriculum (Bambujaya)

My first time to be a consultant and my first time to develop the government curriculum!  At the start of the exploration we were told that we will design and improve the grade one government curriculum. After finish developing/improving the curriculum the school named Bambujaya will uses our developed curriculum to teach their students and also the teaching will be more engaging because a lot of hand on activities have been added to the curriculum. Not only Bambujaya can access to the books but if our book really works well the government will use it for Cambodia curriculum. 

Our first question before we started to develop the curriculum is how can we make the grade one curriculum to be a great resources to study and also how can we make the book more engaging so students want to learn more from the book and feel excited for the next lesson.  To reach our goal first we made some connections between what are some of the activities that we liked and why we liked it. We used that to see what can we improve in the curriculum.  One thing that stand out and we want to improve through out the book is to add hands-on activities because there are very few examples that the curriculum connect to hands-activities.  By implementing the hands-on activities the students we have more fun, simultaneously they collaborate and use critical thinking.

After setting a strong plan of what we want to change in the book, we started to edit and add-on into three grade one books (Social study/science, Khmer, and math).  We went through the whole three books and we did a lot of deleting and adding idea into the books. Two of the problems in the books and the problem appear very rapidly is that the pictures is not good enough and gender inequality. After four weeks my group went through the whole three books but we didn’t really see any progress in term of changing the contents.  We know that edited throughout the book but mostly only picture and gender equality and not the content itself. We kind of upset and stressful because almost every contents stayed the same.  After having a stressful time we figure one idea that we should only focus on one or two lessons from every book so we can do a big change in the lesson. We followed the idea we edited in Khmer lesson, Math, and social and science. We finish about 6 lessons from 3 books and now the lessons have a lot of hand-on activities, good contents and we think that the kid will like the lessons. 

We finish editing the 6 lessons but it time for the ideas to be distributed to our clients (Babujaya). It is very hard time for us because if they like our idea they will hire a curriculum developer to do all the edit for the whole three books and also they will work with us to do more editing for other grades but if they don’t like the lesson that we’re already changed they will stop work with us.

They love it! They think that the idea is credible and they want to work with us more. If this work, the curriculum that my team and I edited, this will be uses as the books to teach in ,$4000-$5000, official school in PP. Also the curriculum can also be implements to government curriculum all around Cambodia.   

 

     

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Game Design

There are three blocks of board game exploration and I’m in the second round.  In second block we didn’t work on finding what is the game and how it going to look like but we worked on the mechanic of the game what is the rules? what are the steps to play? How can we make it so it is learning while having fun? During that block, we created all the rule that our team thought of and implement it in the real game. It not perfect, so after the rules and steps created will play and finding an improvement to fix and develop. We ran the same trial a couple time just play and fix the problem. After found out that the game is good enough to play we took it and give the government students to play. But that time there were more problems because the students didn’t have a lot of experience playing the board game. That time we needed to work a lot harder to help them to understand the game and to fix the problem that they had also. We did a couple trial again but with the government students. After the mechanic is developed it time for a second to design pieces and make it into the real game.  

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Preventative Health

When I grow up I don’t want to be a doctor but this exploration give me a chance to experience it. This exploration we have a goal to help to prevent people from some health problem. We focus on healthy eating and dental problem. Before we we teach other people to eat healthy and take care of the teeth we need to learn about it too. We learn from internet, doctors, and organisation. We combined dental problem and healthy eating to make one play. In the play we got many characters and they got out fit too. There are bacteria, water, vegetable, and some other. I am a bacteria and I got to design my own outfit. The play talk about one boy and one girl not take care of there health so they got health problem. So they need to learn from doctor to become healthier. Get have product to share about dental and healthy eating but where do we share them? My teacher deside to go to Koh Rong because it an island and they are have very hard time with their health problem and also they got no professional doctors on the island. So nearly the end of the exploration we went there to teach them. The thing that I like the most about the trip is that we not only go there to teach also we learn. We learn about live style and also marine live. We teach to two school, it was great and fun they are friendly and also they seem to focus to what we trying to tell. On the trip I got chance to scupper dive, snookering and swing. We snooker to see  sea grasses, and coral reefs. My favorite animals is octopus and sea horse, they look amazing. So at the last day everyone not so happy because they need to come back to our school Liger. I miss Koh Rong but I still feel good coming back to Liger and see my friend again.

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