Day 3 reflections

Reflection Questions

1) What have you learnt about chemical production?    

I have learnt about the different types of machinery that could be found in factories used in chemical production and also, how they all work

2) What have you appreciated about sampling and analysis?

I have appreciated that for analysis; we must test the sample a lot of times and use the average of the answers to get an accurate reading and also when sampling, we must be very careful as one mistake could mess up the entire result of the experiment

3) What have you learnt about science and engineering?

I have learnt like how the ‘oven’ works and how the distillation column works and also how to use the distillation column.

4) What have you learnt about yourself?

I have learnt that I can be a leader when there is no one else taking charge like for example, our leader is doing nothing productive and no one else in the group also don’t know what to do I would try to take charge of the situation and tell them what to do 

Day 2 reflecions

Individual reflection (Day 2)

What did you do today?

Today we learned how to use equipment that is called a ‘oven’ that calculates the amount of substances in a mixture and also we were introduced to different machinery like one which sucks carbon dioxide from the air and also a machine that can change liquid into powder form then later we went to use the ‘oven’ to test the solution how much ethanol it contains which took about four minutes to finish computing and calculate. Then we had a challenge, which is to get 70% of the 200ml solution to be Ethanol.

What did you lean today?

For today, I have learnt that as the heat increases, there is more energy that breaks the hydrogen bond and allowing the water vapor to escape during when water is being heated. Also, the breaking of the bonds takes up the heat energy given. Then when using the ‘oven’, there is a long tube in the oven it has a coating which somewhat attracts ethanol and repels water as we were supposed to separate water and ethanol. Then, Helium is used to blow the mixture along the tube then in the end, water will come out first, methanol that is a poison that can cause blindness when eaten and finally, the final substance that comes out of the tube would be the ethanol.

How do you feel about today’s activities?

The feel that today’s activities has taught me more in depth and more about the machinery that use the method distillation and that I can now know what machinery industrial. Then I also had fun as the activities we done were interesting and that we had a chance to get to try out the equipment/machinery/technology, which is a big life experience, and I would apply my skill in my future endeavors. 

Day 1 reflection

Individual Reflection (Day 1)

Pre Camp

What sounds interesting about this project? (The project you have chosen)

-I find it interesting because I am quite curious about how we separate two elements from another. But even though I had learned a bit about this topic when I was secondary one, I was still interested to find out more about the distillation method

What do you think you can learn from this project?

-To me, I think what I can learn from this project is to learn more in depth information and more details about how distillation works. Also, I think that we may get hands on experience trying it out in the lab.

Any immediate questions regarding the project?

I was wondering how is algebra related to the method of distillation and also how can we separate other elements.

Plenary sessions

Note down at least one key learning point for each lesson

For session number 1, I have learnt that stratigraphy and sedimentology tell us about past tsunami and that there is another way to measure about earthquakes which is using the radioactive decay of uranium to thorium

For session number 2, I have learnt that the challenges of 2d animation are getting the beautiful art form, funding skilled artist, labor intensive and the budget pressure. Then, I have also learnt that the field of engineering involving computer-based hardware and software systems to enable: Acquisition, representation, storage, transmission and use of information. Also, traditional animation production is laborious, costly, difficult to manage but the demand is high

For session number 3, I have learnt that nanotechnology can use motors like the flagella bundle with CCW helix rotate CCW direction to swim around. Each flagellum is 20nm in diameter but over ten thousand in length. Another way is that most cells have a king of ‘’rail networks’’ within them of micro tubes. Kinesin molecules use these to transport material around the cell with each function having its own network of micro tubes