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Second Discovery on Dinosaur Footprint

On the 8th of February 2018, my team and I, traveled all the way up to Battambang with two Thai paleontologists to analyze the footprint that we have found at the site a while ago. 

Our project has come as a result that the prints or casts that we found during our first discovery were a Flute Casts. Meaning it was a cast that got affected by the river flows that pushing it through those stones which affect the stones to turn it that way.

 

It is a pleasure, to have our two Thai paleontologists (Romain and Tida) to help us through with the three days of 12 hours workshop session and a field trip this week.

Even though the result of our project wasn’t what we all were expected, however, we are still feel optimistic on keep on moving forward with this project and will try to raise awareness on Dinosaurs in Cambodia!

 

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Vex Robotics Competition – Beta-B

This is my second time to be apart of the Vex Robotics Competition. The first experience was scary, but the second was absolutely unforgettable and memorable of my first time having to compete with all girls members of our team.

February 3rd was the competition date. It was such an incredible experience where we met about 19 others different teams from Thailand, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan. We were one of the teams from Liger whose chosen to represent our school and our country, Cambodia. 

The game this year is called Vex cone in the zone, meaning we are earning points by putting the cones on to mobile goal or stationary or by putting mobile goals into different point zone. The game wasn’t that easy since that was our experience. 

We were having 1 practice round and 5 qualifying matches. During the qualifying matches, we won in a total of three games and lost by small points in two games. In which we were ranked to be in the 11th placed out of 21 teams.

However, a team from Kazakhstan and a team from Thailand was honored to invite us to be their alliance in which they were the top 1st place and 2nd place of the whole competition, therefore we automatically got into the semi-final. Because of winning the semi-finalized match, we got into the final round and in which we won the whole game with our two alliances. 

By the end of the competition, we won one of the trophies which were awarded on the winning three teams of the whole competition. This one experience has taught me and show me the importance of technology and how have technology like the robot could help us, students learn.

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Grants Writing of Geography in Cambodia Book

Over the past school years, first cohort students have published many books, two of those books were the Cambodian Economy and Wildlife Animals in Cambodia. Currently, the second cohort students (Junior Students) are working on and is planning to publish the book called Geography in Cambodia.

The creativity of junior’s works on their Cambodia Geography trip.

So as part of my project, we are working on writing the grants application describing this project, to apply for the grants from a foundation in Australia whose team is always giving out money once the year. This is not a senior project, therefore all the stories and editing of the book will be in our junior cohort.

Junior’s work on each province they learned.

We believe that by completing this grants and sent out to the people at the foundation, will help junior to be motivated on keep on working and spread the words about this book and be the first book to publish about The Geography in Cambodia.

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Virtual Research Skill Tips!

Research skill has been one of the fun, enjoyable and creative expertise where I learned so many tricks in which help me a lot to become a better researcher. This isn’t about hacking Google or different sources to get the information we want. 

But what research is actually mean is, when you actually run out of idea and don’t know something and you need to know about it, so you need to find the inside story about it. 

There are different kind of research a Scientific research and a Literature research. 

  • Scientific research is you doing your own research and do the data collection.
  • Literature research is when you do reading studies/accounts from others people.

So, why do you want to do research? That’s because:

  • To learn more about the topic
  • To gather evidence to build an argument
  • To make connections between one idea and one another
  • To contribute something new to the “scholarly conversation”

When you are doing research, do you think it hard to find the information you want directly? 

This are some tips that will help you! Are you ready? : 

1. Using five Ws (When, What, Where, Why, Who) and one H (How) to ask about the topic you want to research.

2. Using Boolean Operators – AND, OR, and NOT:  Cambodia and Southeast Asia

3. Using Boolean Searching – Phrase searching:  “Liger Leadership Academy”

4. Using credible source such as: .gov, .edu, || warning: Don’t trust Wikipedia but it can be the first link to start your research.

5. Using Google Scholar, it is free and you may get what you looking for!

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AP Computer Science

As part of the Expertise classes, I have applied to be one of the member learning in AP Computer Science class. I used to do a little bit of coding which is in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a little bit of JavaScript programming languages. In Computer Science, they have what’s called a programming language which is a formula or a language that the programmers or the computer scientists write to communicate with the computer and tell the computer what to do. Part of these, Java is the language that we learn in the AP Computer Science class. 

public static void main(String args[]){
 Scanner myScanner = new Scanner(System.in);
 
 System.out.println("What is your name?");
 String name= myScanner.nextLine();
 
 System.out.println("Hello," + name);
These lines of codes above were one of the practices in the course. Those lines of codes are for the computer to ask the user, what is their name? and let the user input their name in, then the computer print. 

Coding is hard and requires a lot of patients. If there are any syntax errors or missing some kind of codes like, semicolon, hence, the computer won’t be able to analyze and so the program won’t be running. That is why programmers are needed to have an organization where they could understand their codes that goes in order. However, coding has brought programmers in connecting them with the computer very easily, instead of doing really complicated codes, we can write short simple codes and let it print a piece of artwork. Just like the example of the codes below: 

System.out.println("/^^^^^\\");
System.out.println("-------");
System.out.println("|      |");
System.out.println("|_|^|_|");

What do you see in this four lines of codes?
- Answer this question in the comment box below: 
 1. A Star
 2. A House
 3. A Bear
 4. I could see four lines of codes.

By the end of this course, some students are further practice for the AP Computer Exam during May. I am one of them whose will be taking the big exam. It has been a lot of challenging to learn this new kind of programming language but by not giving up on the course may lead me to a good result.

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How have sports effects me, as a person?

Sports has been one of the most inspiring activities and subject for me as a student. When I was young, I never have imagined how has sports were apart of changing my life. Liger has inspired many female students like me, to involve more in sports and learn to understand how sports acts an important role in the gender gaps.

My first thought was that I am a girl and I won’t be able to learn and make it and there is no way that I can be strong just by doing sports. But no, after a few years later I figured out that I was wrong. Sports has brought me many opportunities and great life lessons.

Without Frisbee training, I wouldn’t be able to travel abroad to have the international championships. Without basketball training, I wouldn’t know how to dribble and working in a team with my others friends in school. Without football, I wouldn’t know how football system is like.

Sports has affected me in a way where I noticed myself that I am able to realize the potential and the energy as an athlete. It not late to learn, because you always have time to make yourself learn and enjoy the new experience of physical activities.

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Liger Digital Currency Launching

After every seven weeks of the exploration, the students will be then going to present about there final product to different groups of people. Liger Digital Currency, has been my most and long term continuation project, and I love it. So far, this exploration has been run for three round in which I was in all of the three. Since I was in all of the rounds, I can see how much I have grow from this one and specific project and understand much clearer about the project as far as getting  another challenges. 

During the 27th of November, I was presenting, the growth of Liger Digital Currency and how has these project becoming. We has successfully launch our LDC and senior students are currently using it. This project will also be a part of helping to secure the Liger cashing system in which the students now can save there money with worry. I am so proud of what my team has achieved and the effort that we put in as a team. 

 

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Listening to TedxISPP 2017

On November 25th of 2017, I was pleased to be apart of the audience for Tedx ISPP 2017. I got invited from a friend of mind who’s one of the speaker, his talk was about the Impact of ICT field in Cambodia. I was inspired by him and the others speakers who’s gave their talk such things that gets a lot of my attention. This experience guide me to understand how youth in Cambodia are starting to involve in this kind of talk where they take their idea and inputs for the audience in relation to the big theme of, “Creating a hopeful future.”

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Tos-Tov APP — Process of Validation

Within the framework of exploration, Tos-Tov, in English means “Let Go!” This project is one of the longest and a continuation project that I has worked on about a year ago. Intentionally, the application is run to help solve passengers and drivers problem as part of their daily life. You might never notice things that always happen to passengers when they go the bus station to find the car. Thus, as soon as the driver saw a motorcycle that  deliver people with bags, they then run quickly and will pull the passengers down of the motorcycle. This is a problem where we all should be able to stick our heads in and analyse the needs in this field. So, my team decided to conduct app as an alternative solution for both drivers and passengers.

During November 19th, my team and I, visited Takeo central market which located in Takeo Province. The interview went very successfully, while many of the passengers and drivers are seems to be interested in our solution and as looking forward to work with us. In this process of validation, passengers has gave us such a good advice and answer to help us develop more ways to help them and to be apart of their helper in their daily day life.

It was a two hours interview, different people inputs so many perspective which was a really good sign for us to see how people interact with us. Their opinion and thought are what leads us and help us to have a better analyse and research more about the problem and understanding their needs. Therefore, by doing this survey, my team has understood the differences among each passengers and drivers. This is not our first time of doing survey but everytime we has taken another step out of our team comfort zone, it has helped us to think that Cambodia need our help and we will try our best to help them to make our country better tomorrow.  

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Cryptocurrency Presentation

During Tuesday 14th of 2017,  I went to listen to a presentation which talks about the Cryptocurrency system in the world and most specifically in Cambodia. Two of the guys were explaining about how Bit-Coin has inspired them to come up with a new digital currency in Cambodia. Satoshi Nakamoto is the man who’s created the first Bit-coin. What bitcoin is, is that it a decentralized digital currency that uses the block-chain technology.  Historically, people are happen to have a lack of coincidence of wants. Way back then, there are some solution due to barters with money:  

Acceptable, Scarce, Durable, Fungible, Uniform, Store of Value. Moreover, the objective theory of value of a good is based on the individual’s subjective perception. By having Bitcoin there are some values to it such as: fair, inexpensive to sent, easy to sent and decently private. Lastly, the two guys stated that, bitcoin is useful as money: 1. No intermediary, 2. High quality data, 3. Durability, reliability and longevity.