Friday, May 23, 2008

Meeting with Mentor: Discussion Summary
this is a rough outline of what we are going to cover:

WATER

create cartoon posters to attract more attention (something like those in public toilets telling people to not stand on the toilet bowls)
create educational posters
come out with a system plan to let people inform the estate department fast enough when taps, pipes, toilet etc are damaged
propose to the school to get half-flush toilets and water efficient taps
- calculate budget

ELECTRICITY

create cartoon posters to remind people to reduce electricity usage
encourage (or set a a policy to make) teachers turn off the air-con when the class ends (air con will not be on when there are no lessons)
ENERGY-STAR - set the computer terminals to auto-shutdown after 15 minutes of inactivity

WASTE MANAGEMENT

posters!
get the NEAs of each class to throw all plastic bottles to the proper recycling bins at the end of each day
check how often the recycling companies come down to collect the recyclables and the requirements for plastic needed for be recycled
maybe set up additional small recycling bins around the classroom areas for convenience
collect unwanted paper from school or also can have a monthly, termly, semester-ly or yearly collection from nearby blocks.
send most of the paper to recycling factories
rest of the paper we can recycle on our own. make it a school activity. can increase awareness.
system to resale of textbook from higher levels to lower levels
-make a portal?
set default setting of photocopy machines to double sided
encourage teachers to print notes double sided

Others

get the school to show us the bills then every month we can make morning announcements to tell the school how many percent have the bills increase or decreased the past month so that they will know that their efforts have turned out good or they have to continue working hard.
make posters about interesting facts about environmental issues to draw people's interest

what we can start doing NOW:

brainstorm ideas and start creating the posters (water + electricity + waste management)
-everybody brainstorm. any ideas communicate through email, blog or tagboard
-xinyuan and karyen will be in charge of the posters
resale of textbook
-ask nicholas leong according to tpl
find out details about sending paper to recycle
-where
-how often
-rate $$
find out about how often recycling company come to collect the plastic
recycle our own paper
-we try out on our own first. we need to know exactly how to do it.
notices or letters to encourage staff to reduce electricity and paper usage

what we need?

statistics
-about current state of recycling in school
-school electricity bills and water bills
PICTURES and VIDEOS
-related to our project to put up here. more interesting

we also came out with the outline of the proposal:

Aim of project
Problem in the school
Evidence of problem (from Ms Sim's Notes)
-Explanation (research)
-Hypothetical instances
-Figurative comparison
-Fables, sayings, poems and rhymes
-Demonstration
-Statistics
-Factual instances (pictures, videos)
-Literal instances
-Expert opinions
Solutions
-long term solutions
-short term solutions
- actions that we can take NOW
Justification of solutions
Timeline of solution
Bibliography

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TIMELINE

17th May, Saturday
- briefing @ science centre
22nd May, Thursday
- meet up with facilitators in school at 2pm
24th May, Saturday
- inform mentors of blog URL
28th May, Wednesday
- 2nd meeting with facilitators in school at 2pm
- 1st draft of proposal, posters, letters to principal
- finish research (recycling factories, ways to recycle paper
30th May, Friday
- completion of posters
4th June, Wenesday - 3rd meeting with facilitators in school at 2pm
- completion of proposal
17th June, Tuesday
- submission of proposals, blog, and any visual aids
18th June, Wednesday
- fourth meeting with facilitators in school at 2 pm (tentative)
20th June
- notification of selection
10th July
- GRAND FINALE

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