Group 4 Project helps budding scientists
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The Group 4 Project is an annual three-day activity at the British International School Shanghai, Pudong, designed to encourage collaboration with others from different sciences. Everyone is encouraged to express and highlight the various skills the International Baccalaureate has stimulated within us in our first year of the course. The main purpose of this activity is to introduce us to the idea that science and technology are team activities involving an array of scientists and technologists working together.
The goal of this year’s Group 4 Project was to research a topic of our interest from the given themes: light, ethics of science or the day after tomorrow (climate). Our year was encouraged to explore our chosen theme and present our ideas, thoughts and data collected. We were given the chance to be creative and innovative with the opportunity to display our investigation in any way that was informative and appealing in our designated area.
The groups were chosen for us to ensure we were risk takers in terms of working with people from different subjects and with those with whom we weren’t familiar. Since each of us had different specialties, we were motivated to contribute the best of what we had learnt in the course of the year. My group had a range of scientists and technologists. We all were academically solid and perceptive. Light was our chosen theme and since many of us were keen athletes as well, we decided to investigate the effects of light intensity and light colors on a football player’s performance.
We all worked collaboratively as a unit, from the D&T scientists designing and making a dowel board for measure the accuracy in different light conditions, to the biologists researching the ‘why’ behind our data collected in relation to the eye and its various internal cells. Overall, the investigation was a success and we found out that a football player works best in high light intensity and, surprisingly, with a hint of blue light.
It was a very enriching experience as all the planning, sharing of results and analyzing the collected data really made us appreciate the sciences we study and their implications. One of the greatest skills we obtained was communication; it was surprising to see many of us stepping forward and taking on the role of a scientist to explain our findings.
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