Science Week
During 26-30 May, the Science Department organized a Science Week for our students in the School. Different interesting and fascinating science activities & experiments were incorporated to arouse students’ interest in learning science. During the Science Week, a lot of the students joined the activities and they enjoyed the activities so much. The following are the details of activities in the Science Week.
PHYSICS ACTIVITIES:
ACTIVITY #1: “WATER ROCKET COMPETITION”
Date: Monday, 26, May 2014
Time: Lunch time 12:50 – 1:30 pm
Venue: Grass field behind the Music Block
Organizers: Thomas, Frankie, and Terence
Event description:
Around twenty teams of students joined the water rocket competition this year. Each team constructed a water rocket using a 500 mL plastic pop bottle. All the designs were excellent and some even flew up into the balcony or across the field!
Champion team: 2H(3) CASTILLO John Gabriel B.
2H(9) FENTIMAN Emil Daryll Palana
2H(12) HARJANI Manav Kishore
1st runner-up team: 2A(5) CHENG Bin Yang
2nd runner-up team: 2K(6) FUNG Mo Tin Timothy
2K(25) YIP Joe
ACTIVITY #2: “TOOTHPICK TOWER CONTEST”
Date: Monday, 26 May, 2014
Time: After school 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Venue: Room 611 (Physics lab)
Organizers: Thomas, Frankie, and Terence
Event description:
Around 10 teams of students joined our toothpick tower building contest, held for the first time in our school. Given a box of toothpicks and a strip of blue tack, the students had to build the tallest free-standing tower in ten minutes. The competition was fierce and the designs were very interesting.
Champion team: 3C(6) IMRAN Ali Adnan
3C(22) RUKMA Andika Bagas Mustikawardhana
1st runner-up team: 5M(11) LEUNG Fung Flora
3C(14) MANUEL Luz Isannia
2nd runner-up team: 3Y(7) CHOW Ho Fung
3Y(10) HA Brendan
ACTIVITY #3: “WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT SPECIAL RELATIVITY? AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE FOR NON-PHYSICISTS”
Date: Wednesday, 28 May, 2014
Time: Lunch time 12:55 – 1:25 pm
Venue: Room 102
Speaker: Terence Wang
“Can Isaac Newton be wrong? Is time the same for everyone? Can the laws of conservation be violated? Is time travel possible? These are the questions Dr. Wang addressed in the brief lecture. With only a pen, a piece of paper, and Pythagoras’ Theorem; Dr. Wang and the students derived Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity the way Einstein did it best—through a thought experiment. And the consequences of Special Relativity indeed astounded many students! This introductory lecture, geared for non-physicists, attracted many students without a background in physics.
CHEMISTRY CORNER
Date: 27 May, 2014, Lunch time
Date: 30 May, 2014, After school
Coordinators: Cathy Kwong, Jonathan Yip, Diana Lo & Helpers: Frankie Tsang
Student Helpers: F5 DSE Chemistry class
LUNCH TIME: “EXPERIMENT BOOTHS”
Lots of interesting experiments were conducted and demonstrated such as elephant toothpaste, clock experiment, sublimation of dry ice, bubbles making on this wonderful day. Students tried very hard to become a ‘bubble man’. It’s cool!
AFTER SCHOOL: “HOOKED ON SOAP MAKING!”
Students enjoyed a lot to make soap with simple, step-by-step soap making instructions. All got their soaps as gifts and they really wanted us to organize such activity next year. Last but not least, we would like to thank Ms. Annie Cheng who has come to support us, and we would like to express our gratitude to Mr. Frankie Tsang for his contribution to this event.
BIOLOGY ACTIVITIES:
LUNCH TIME: VITAMIN C TEST ON VARIOUS FRUIT JUICE
During lunch time, our Biology students introduced a Vitamin C testing method called DCPIP test to students. Students were instructed to add fruit juice to the blue DCPIP solution drop by drop. At the end, students compared the amount of fruit juice required to decolorize the DCPIP solutions and found out which fruit contained the highest concentration of Vitamin C.
AFTER SCHOOL: DNA FINGERPRINTING WORKSHOP – PARENTAGE TEST
In the DNA fingerprinting workshop, students learnt the practical skills and the principles behind parentage test using a biotechnology technique called DNA fingerprinting. This biotechnology enables students to analyze DNA samples of a given family. The apparatus we used in gel electrophoresis, in which DNA sample of various suspects were separated and analyzed. The DNA photograph on the side showed DNA fingerprint analyzed by the students. From the result, students were able to distinguish the biological child, step child and adopted child from the family’s DNA samples.
AFTER SCHOOL: DNA NECKLACE WORKSHOP
In the DNA necklace workshop, students learnt how to extract their own DNA and turned it into a DNA necklace. Students enjoyed the activity! It involved not just lab procedures but also artwork!
