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Puxi Campus G4-5: Welcome to the Sciverse: SHSID's Spectacular Science Week!

December 9, 2022

This week concluded the science department's spectacular Science Week! Students and teachers alike have been preparingfor this week for over a month now, and the events, lectures, and science experiments that the students experienced over the past week were outstanding!

Science Week kicked off on Monday when all 5th grade students made their way to the Zhentao Building to listen to a lecture delivered by Mr. Mu. The topic of the lecture was “BCI: Revolution or Chaos?” Students learned that BCI stands for “brain-computer interface” and that it describes external devices that have direct communication pathways with the brain, enabling the brain to control computers, robotic limbs, and potentially much more! Students learned all about the current goals and limitations of this technology. Students were actively participated and none of them wanted to leave the lecture, hoping to keep discussing more about the topic.

4th grade attended a lecture on Tuesday titled “When and How Will Chinese Put Our Feet On The Moon?” The lecturer compared the ways that Earth, Mars and Jupiter got their natural satellites. He also showed the students a picture taken from Shanghai Astronomy Museum by himself to illustrate the four steps of Moon formation after Theia impacted the original Earth.

All throughout the week, students were also learning how to implement the “reuse” step of conservation that they learned in class. Students brought lots of old junk from their houses to repurpose into fashionable bags, mouse traps, and other toys to play with. The best projects were displayed at the Science Fair on Thursday.

Thursday afternoon was the moment everyone was looking forward to – the Science Fair! The Science Fair kicked off with a two-minute video. Our previous young scientists, Andy, Daniel and Leo from sixth grade shared how they conquered difficulties in the water rocket experiment and eventually succeeded. Two experts from the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum demonstrated the aerodynamic engineering behind sending rockets to space. The students participating brought their A-game. 40 groups of students prepared posters detailing their scientific methodology, brought small demonstrations to give in person, and shared their experiences doing science with the rest of 4th and 5th grade. Some experiments presented by the students were more observational. Students dressed up as crazy scientists, construction workers, and even Hogwarts students!

Outside of the main atrium, there were many other exhibitions for the students to explore. One room was full of 18 mini-stations brought by the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum that demonstrated lots of cool scientific phenomena. Students were turning their bodies into batteries, learning how our eyes perceive color, and discovering their blind spots!

Parents with various scientific backgrounds also volunteered to attend and educate students about what they were working on in the real world. Roger’s mom from class 5-7 let students observe wildtype C. elegans and one of its long-lived mutants. The discovery of this mutant kicked off the study of the genetic mechanisms of aging. Sissi’s parent from 4-7 brought along a powerful AI technology that was able to turn a simple drawing into a beautiful masterpiece!

In B1 theater, students also enjoyed interacting with the dozens of small quail that had just recently hatched and watched the video of how quails incubate and grow. Students in the after-school science club had been raising and observing them in an incubator for weeks.

Finally, students attended their last lecture brought by Borouge company’s experts about the advantages and disadvantages of using plastics in industry. From this lecture, tudents learnt the importance of recycling trash in a correct way.

The theme of this year’s science week is sciverse, representing science universe. It was a week-long of lectures, hypotheses, experiments, questioning, learning, and growing in our scientific knowledge. The scientific spirit is strong in the students, and they have strongly improved their scientific spirit, innovation and ability of thinking. Great job to all the kids!

Written by Michael Martin, Jin Ying, Wu Yin

Pictures by Cao Minxuan, Ginger

Edited by: Serene Yang, Niall Keenan