Hi everybody.
Today we are back at school during our Spring holidays! We've come in to finalise the presentations which we will be be using in Tianjin. We have three presentations which we would like to share with the delegates of the 10th International Student Science Conference.
Our first presentation will be about the SMART Tree Project, which you are already familiar with from following this blog. What is sap? What is sap flow? Why is it important? What is the research? We hope that the other schools will take an interest in this area of science and enjoy it as much as we have.
For our second presentation, Hayley and Natalie will be analyzing the use of grey-water for domestic and agricultural purposes, for example, growing mung beans. We applaud them for hand-washing their own clothes to create their grey-water. This project was inspired by the research of one of our classmates, Nicole Sung, who came up with the idea.
In our third presentation, Emma will be talking about 'whether the concentration of Xenical affects the inhibition of lipase.' Her project concerns the increasingly growing problem of obesity by looking this diet pill. This is from her own original work from her SRP (Student/Science Research Project) conducted earlier this year.
We have heard that there will be students from many different parts of the world such as Canada! Katie and I (Averlie) are super excited to meet international students and make friends, and we're sure the rest of us are as well. What languages will they speak? We have also heard that we are likely to be the youngest delegates to present at the conference because the other delegates are likely to be in the equivalents of Year 12. However, that just makes everything more exciting because it gives us an opportunity to get a taste of higher levels of scientific work.
It is a privilege to be able to go to China on a tour such as this one and we hope that our audience at Tianjin will enjoy our presentations as much as we have enjoyed putting them together.
