Project Summary

Our project aims to generate awareness of mangroves and the means to obtain reliable experimental data through outdoor experimentation. We purpose to do so by producing a portable and easy-to-use educational kit and related material to facilitate the acquiring of this information. We intend to target young children between the ages of 10-12 years of age. Through this project, we hope to foster these children’s interest in the conservation of the environment so that they may play a more active role in protecting it, as well as equip them with the necessary knowledge to become active stewards of our environment.

Thus, we can make quiz cards, which may include riddles, crossword puzzles, mangrove-related frequently questions and fun facts!

Also, we can create pictorial storybooks containing various short stories which are interesting for school children to read. This would appeal to booklovers and also to Primary 1 to 3 children who prefer reading pictorial to wordy books.

We understand that Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve has been very dedicated in increasing the exposure of mangrove ecosystem to young school-goers. Thus, we would like to work with them in such a way that students would be able to possess a greater understanding and knowledge about mangroves and how to go about protecting them. Captivating and educational trips to places such as this can be organized in conjunction with Primary Schools.

Project Summary

In this modern society where resources are scare, conservation of the environment takes first priority. We believe that the general population plays a pivotal role in helping the protection of the environment. Hence our project recommends changes in the HDB estate; this will not only save a large amount of energy but also raise awareness within residents on the importance of having an eco-friendly lifestyle. Through this, we hope to raise awareness within the entire general population.

Our 12 ideas we are trying to introduce are often SIMPLE in nature, infact, some are also cheap to implement, yet all these ideas bring about large savings in energy. The ideas presented are also often unobstrustive, that is, the residents are allowed to continue with their normal lfiestyle. By integrating residents with an eco-friendly lifestyle, we believe that this would encourage residents to further the cause of green protection.

Below is a succinct summary of our 12 ideas:

1. Louver Gates – To increase ventilation and decrease overall temperature.
2. Rooftop hydroponics garden – To decrease the temperature of building, and to act as a decorative area and lastly to foster bonds within the community.
3. Colour of HDB – To decrease the overall temperature of the building
4. Aluminium Foil lights – Prevents energy from being wasted and increases the intensity of indoor lighting.
5. Larger tiles – Reduces the time taken to wash bathroom tiles and reduces water wastage and pollution
6. Artificial intelligence lifts – Prevents wastage of energy though an algorithm system and prevents the wastage of energy on putting the lift to standby mode during ‘non peak’ periods.
7. Dual Waste Chute system – Allows residents to recycle at the convenience of their home, encouraging residents to recycle and reduce the wastage of resources.
8. Two-way Sink system – To save the residue water through a simple motor mechanism for other future use such as watering plants, this conserves water.
9. Reflective curtains – These curtains scatter and reflect heat away yet maintain the interior façade of the house, reducing the overall temperature.
10. Green lobbies – Increases air quality and becomes an area for rest and recreations.
11. Aluminum Fins with plants – Reflects heat and disperse rain hence window can be continued to be opened even during a rainy season.
12. Pay-per use Electricity meter – Reduces the amount of carbon emissions as residents are more conscious about that energy bill and reduce the need for paper bills.

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Potatoes have always been an essential part of our diet, be it mashed, cooked or deep fried and are a very popular food item on the menu of many restaurants today. Due to high consumption of potatoes, large amount of potato peel is generated by restaurants, fast food outlets and industries. However, a large amount of waste is generated as the potato skins are not used. These waste potato peels contain a heterogeneous mixture of water, protein, fiber, and starch which can be recycled and reused.

Starch has been widely used as adhesives. Adhesives are materials that are capable of fastening two other materials together by means of surface attachment. A well-known class of adhesives is based on starch and dextrin. They play an important part in industries, especially the packaging industry. This is due to their ability to adhere two substrates together to form materials that have greater mechanical strength. By bonding with starch based adhesives, most of the corrugated cardboards and packaging material we see today are made.

Starch and dextrin adhesives are commonly used because they are readily available, low in costs and easy to use upon water dispersion. This makes them the cheapest form of paper packaging adhesive that we can use in large-scale operations in the factory. Starch-based adhesive is highly versatile as well, as it can be customized to be used when it is hot or cold, and have a very slow curing rate which allows ample assembly time.

Project Summary

Our product is a website, Guni-Bay, that serves to bridge the connection between rag-and-bone men, and the general public, in order to faciliate the proper disposal of waste, including e-waste.

Furthermore, the website has the additional benefit that users or even the non-participating web surfer would be able to gain much information regarding recycling, electronic wastes, and related items. This would be catalyzed through the information library that the website hosts. Through this awareness-raising concept, we hope to be able to impact more people, thus promoting environmental awareness and contributions.

In this project, we seek to facilitate the communication between residential consumers and Karang Guni men so as to compensate the lack of convenience and motivation which recycling companies has. We seek to make transaction of items on Guni-Bay fast, easy and low-risk through efficient website layout, publicity and security features and precautions. We also seek to raise awareness of electronic waste and its disposal. Overall, this project aims to reduce the inconsiderate disposal of electronic waste by encouraging residential consumers to sell their electronic wastes to Karung Guni men.

Project Summary

We chose this title not only due to the pun of TOFU in the four initials of our title, but also to highlight how important Okara is in production of tofu as well as how it can be used even to a higher extent than what it is used now.

Through this projec, our objective is to convert Okara as a waste product into a main supplement of fertilizers that can be sidely used, so as to decrease the reliance on conventional fertilizers that are used presently as well decrease the run-off of Okara due to its wastage after the production of Tofu. To fulfill our objective, we embarked on our projects in the form of a survey, experiment. Through this, we formulated our product that would fulfill the objectives of our project, as well as bring a close to our project.

We embarked on the survey to find out the views of the common population of the use of fertilizer, and also tried to find out the various preferences on fertilizer of the Singaporean populace. The survey was conducted on 30 people of varying age groups. Finally, we basically found out that Singaporeans would prefer having a cheaper and more abundant source of fertilizer that would be easier to use and buy.

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A windogradsky Column is a mixture of mud, water and a nutrient source, forming a ecosystem in which bacteria thrive. The bacteria in the column are interdependent on each other, in a process by which electrons are transferred, thus, it is possible to generate electricity. For our research, we intend to test organic material such as fruit peels and others which are commonly discarded, as a substitute for the nutrient sources of the column. This project thus will examine a new form of clean energy generation, while also contributing to and possibly helping to expand the recycling effort. The columns would also help to reduce use of dry cell batteries as they have the same functionalities, and thus, this also reduce the problems of elctronic waste.

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Through this project our group aims to promote awareness about the destruction that mankind has wrought upon the earth and Mother Nature, through this poetry anthology. We also hope that the profits from sale of our poetry anthology can be used in the future to aid in mankind’s effort against environmental change. The poetry anthology consists of a wide variety of poems about our hopes, our concerns and our fears – with regard to environmental change. Although this poetry anthology is targeted mainly at teenagers and adults and how these groups of people can actually be agents of positive change, we hope that the greater message of environmental change will still be passed on to children and elderly alike. More broadly speaking, to fight environmental destruction, we need all – regardless of age, gender, nationality, race, religion etc. – to stand up, and to articulate in one voice, their wish for a sustainable future.

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The project mainly revolves the making of a children/teenager’s fun guide to endangered animals in Singapore focusing on five species of animals in Singapore. They will be done in comic style, each with a profile page with an illustration of the said character along with interesting facts about the animal. Following the profile pages will be a short comic strip illustrating who they are and why their existence on the island is threatened. The stories will be based on problems faced by these animals in real life, in order o bring a sense of authencity and “reality” to the fictional stories, and to emphasize how real the situation is.

The aim of this project is to spread awareness, mainly about the reasons why some animals are being driven to extinction in Singapore, and the measures needed to prevent the situation from worsening through the use of cute and colourful characters, all this in order to raise awareness, and hopefully instigate more youths to take a stand and advocate this cause.

Project Summary

The main aim of our project is to tackle the problem of pollution (mainly land and water) and deforestation as well as some animals became endangered as a result of the above.

We focused on 2 major areas. Firstly, on increasing the population of some of these endangered animals - We have designed a nature reserve that would suit and provide natural living conditions for the survival of different species of endangered animal and allow them to produce offspring to ensure the survival of their species.

Secondly, on promoting the awareness of these issues to the public so as to get them involve in contributing to the prevention of deforestation and pollution – We have 3 solutions.

1) A website that will provide information about the endangered animals.
2) Through organising events, such as, Eco Festival and Eco Olympics, these will provide a wide range of different activities to cater to the different group ages.
3) Draw up lesson plans on poster to show various types of fun activities that can be used to educate children on the seriousness of environmental issues.