In August 2017, I had missions to complete by navigating in Phnom Penh City without the adult. I assigned to join with a group of four students to complete all those missions. We needed to walk and be negotiated and paid with the tuk tuk driver to drive us in the city. We completed the missions around lunch. What I learned was really helping throw life, like to take care each other in a group or team, to solve problems, to collaborate, to listen, to help and to do things by yourself without anyone support(in this case adult).
Speech and Debate
In September 2017, I had a great opportunity to learn and improve my speech and debate skill. I learned different ways to persuade, to be a better speaker, to be brave and take my time. So in this expertise I and the group had to debate on many topics like, “to eat or not eat meat?”, “should death penalty allowed in countries?” and “should Liger’s students bring their phone on the overnight field trip? ”. It was a really fun time learning a new skill that needed in the future.
Leading Basketball
In August 2017, I and my friends led an after-school activity about basketball. We taught basketball to our Juniors students every weekend. I taught both boys and girls an hour each. It was challenging because it really to teach the sport to a lot of students with a few teachers. It was a really great experience teaching and seeing the Juniors had fun with us. Also, it was a relaxing time for us to spend our weekend and spend time with Juniors and other students.
Impact Hub
On September 10th 2017, I joined an event called Impact hub, where there are a lot of change agents in Cambodia came talk and had a talk about their life that inspired lots of people. Some of these change agents, I had known about them and some are not. These successful people inspired me in many ways. I learned about their life and how their hard work helps their life to succeed. It made me realized that if they can do I can do it. Realizing all the problem that they had to face and compared to myself, I can make the connection with each other. Also, it taught me to not give up on your dream easily and make be myself to do what I want in life.
Animation
In September 2017, I participated in a project about animation. I studied a lot about animation, like drawing and different things that make animation interesting. Since it was a 7 weeks project, we did get to animate only basic stuff like bouncing ball. It was cool and made me realized that animation is not easy to make at all.
Changing Cambodia 2016-2017
Years went by, As this turned into my senior year, I got more responsibilities in life. I had to cook, live independently and more works. This year, most of my projects that I’ve done made me become a change agent myself. The three projects that made me become a change agent in my country are Preventative health, Game Design, and Change Agents. In those three projects, I helped people in different communities in Cambodia as well as helping myself. As a change agent myself sharing the information that I had learned to help people around it Cambodia it is my honor.
Preventative health is one of the projects that made me become a change agent in the year the of 2016-2017. This is the project that I learned how to keep yourself healthier. I learned a lot from this project about health and how important is it to take care our health. After we learned about those health problems and the solutions to prevent from it, We wanted to share this information with families in Cambodia especially the rural area. Many families in rural Cambodia did not have a high education about health problems that they’re facing. So in this project, my group went out to an island called Koh Rong. This island is one of the farthest islands from the shore, The students on the island did not have a high education on health. So, my group formed a play and presentation on the health problem that they need to be aware of. We went to two different schools to share all the information about health problems to help them help their family, community and most importantly is themselves. As my experience, not many people in Cambodia knows about the health problem or how to prevent from those problems. In my villages, I asked many people, and not most of them know about all the effects of the different disease. My team hoped that that information would help them in their lives and helped other people too.
Game Design is a project that my group created a board game. This board game is special from the other board game, the board game mainly focus on Cambodia curriculum. What this board game does is it helps students in Cambodia to learn different ways from usual, but we’re not trying to change how the whole curriculum system. So, this board game it about solving Climate Change Problem, building solutions in Cambodia to reduce CO2 in Cambodia is the way to win the game. To build solutions, players need to answer questions from their curriculum to earn points to build the solutions to help Cambodia reduce CO2. This game basically helps students to review their lessons, makes new friends, release stress from just sitting down and listen to teacher speaks. Most of the government schools in Cambodia, students sat down and listen to the teacher and took notes the hold time and it keeps of stressful and might get bored out of that. We went to a school in Phnom Penh and most of the students seem like they are enjoying this board game that Liger students created it. It seems like board game is new to Cambodian students so it should be a interesting and new experience for the students. We hope students in Cambodia learn new experience from the game and make the game fun and learn at the same time. So this board game design is to help students so much that the next group would produce this board game to 100 schools in Cambodia.
Change agent is one of the explorations that helps inspired Cambodian people especially the young people of the country become a change agent in Cambodia. In this project my group and I learned about change agent and it inspires me to be a change agent in my community as well as my country. We did a research about different changemaker around the world including Cambodia. After the research, we tried to get the contact from those changemakers and wrote an email to them to ask for permission to interview. Some of those change agents allow us to interview and some are not. I interviewed this cool guy name Peter Dilworth is one of the co-founders of 3Doodler. Peter Dilworth is a change agent that inspired me to become a change agent in my country. I learned a lot from his advised after the interview. His advice is so powerful that inspired a lot of people to become a change agent. This are some of his advices, never give up, do what you passionate about, don’t be scared of failing and more. After all of that, We made a Youtube Channel (Change Agent) and Facebook page (Cambodia Change agent), that had all the interviews with many change agents around the world including Cambodia. All those videos had khmer subtitles on it because our target is Cambodian students and try to inspire them. We shared it on Facebook and Youtube because we found out that most of Cambodian students use Facebook and Youtube. This project goal is to share some advice from many change agents around the world to the world especially Cambodian people and students.
The year of 2016-2017, as I grow older and become senior I had more responsibilities with works. This year I had to cook food, live independently and more works. I had to cook and clean in my apartment with 6 students including me, we had to order our food and make the menu for it too. I had to live independently with my 6 apartment mates. Also, I got more works like homework and house works. Furthermore, I had three projects that made me become an agency in my country. Those three projects are Preventative health, Game Design, and Change Agents. Through those project, I learned lots of information that helped my life that spread that information to Cambodian people and students. Sharing information that I learned my from projects is helping Cambodian students and to inspire them to become an agency in the country helping those people who really need help.
Game Design
Game Design is a project that my group created a board game. This board game is special from the other board game, the board game mainly focuses on Cambodia curriculum. What this board game does is it helps students in Cambodia to learn the different way from usual, but we’re not trying to change how the whole curriculum system. So, this board game it about Climate Change Problem, building solutions in Cambodia to reduce CO2 in Cambodia is the way to win the game. To build solutions the players need to answer questions from their curriculum to earn point to build the solution to help Cambodia reduce CO2. This game basically helps students to review their lessons, makes new friends, release stress from just sitting down and listen to teacher speaks. Most of the government schools in Cambodia, students sat down and listen to the teacher and took notes the hold time and it keeps of stressful and might get bored out of that. We went to a school in Phnom Penh and most of the students seem like they are enjoying this board game that Liger students created it. It seems like a board game is new to Cambodian students so it should be an interesting and new experience for the students. We hope students in Cambodia learn new experience from the game and make the game fun and learn at the same time. So this board game design is to help students so much that the next group would produce this board game to 100 schools in Cambodia.
Preventative Health
My reflection is to share what I learned to other students to help themselves with the health problem. I wanted everyone in Cambodia to be healthy. I wanted to share with Cambodian students because I also one of them. I never know about health care before I learned about it. Before I learned about health care I don’t care about my health at all I just eat the food that I like. But I understand more about the health problem in Cambodia. After I learned about it, I wanted to share my knowledge to other. My team went to Koh Rong and I went to two communities to share our knowledge with other students. We teach the students in Koh Rong hopping them to share with their family to make their community healthier. This what I have helped my country in this seven weeks. It doesn’t look much but, it means a lot to me because I help students in my country to be healthier. After all the hard work that we’re done we went explore marine ecosystem. We went snorkeling and buddy diving with two excerpts(Filippo and Sam). It was my best day of my life, I saw very crazy things in the ocean that I been dreaming to see before! I saw seahorse, starfish, beautiful fish and crazy organism in the ocean that I never saw it before. It was a really great experience for me to learn and to help my country by sharing what I know to other people and learned about marine ecosystem.
Scratch Project (Quiz – Investigation Class)
In this class we have 2.5 hour per week in 7 weeks for use to to experiment what we want to learn. And SCRATCH just pop up in my mind. I tried to test Can I use scratch to create quiz so people can test their skill. It was not too hard and not too easy for me to get it done. I have some parts that I learned and some part I never know.
I play round with the scratch precise it help me to understand what it do. For some part of it I need more time but, for some part I don’t need much time to figure because some I already know. Since I had learn and practice scratch it a bit easier to understand the function. As long as I know some English language I can do more staff with it. My hypothesis is if I can use the to help me with this project but I just need time to understand it. The variable in scratch is hard for me, without the help I can’t understand it fast enough because I’m still the beginner of it and need more to learn.
Plan:
– I make the level of difficulty for the quiz.
– I run it to ask for Subject that people wants.
– I make the question to ask people.
– I give them result(how did they do?).
– The way that I make the result is in percent tag. In the percent tag I don’t know how to make it. So I create a variable call “Score”. I know that I have 4 question to ask so in a question it 25%. First I set the score to 100 when it start every question that they got wrong I substructure by 25. After that I show the score to people.
My hypothesis was right because base on my understanding in scratch I know I can understand new thing in scratch I just need more time. It also show me that I need to learn and practice more to get better. Even I don’t know much about scratch I still find different ways to help help complete a project that I like. In scratch there are many ways to get the same things. I tried to find a ways that easy for me. This result really important to me because I can know what level I am in scratch and I what I can do and cant do.
Change Agent
In this Project we try to interview change agent around the or in Cambodia. WE interview many change agent around the world and they really nice. We take the information to share to people in Cambodia to help them for their future we somebody need it to become a change agent in Cambodia or be a young business person. We’re not just interview and share to Cambodia we also learned from it. When we interview I learn a lot from the videos. Many change agent they gave us really good suggestion so I also be a change agent myself to change my country. It a really great opportunity for me to learn new skill that can help me and my country.
We had Youtube Channel and Facebook page.
Youtube: Change Agent
Facebook: Change Agent
I interview Peter Dilworth. He is one of the founder for 3Doodler. Peter give me a really good suggestion for me to share to my team and my country.