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Window To A New Life

The impact of light poverty

In 2016, about 1.7 billion people, or more than a fifth of the world’s population, are without access to electricity and modern lighting. This is especially...

By Jason Ren on 04 Nov 14:44

Making the World Better, One Helmet at a Time

The Design and Rationale:

Every year, it is estimated that approximately 1.25 million people die each year in road related accidents. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), that equates...

By Fin Casey on 04 Nov 12:14

Insulation for the World

 

 

 

Rationale

 

Humans require three things in order to survive: food, water, and shelter. Of those three shelter is perhaps the most underrated, but in reality without...

By Henry Mellor on 04 Nov 11:56

Compost Compressor

GROUP 4 PROJECT BLOGGING

By Kevin Qian, Tom Rasmussen, Rhys Watkins, Arthur Kuan

 

Task given: Use what you have got to make the world a better place

 

Initial thoughts

  • Would be good to...
By Tom Rasmussen on 04 Nov 11:47

Entropy - Racing our way to a better world!

School is a great thing, we don't doubt nor question that. However, earlier this year, we did question what could make school better? And with that, we found the answer to our solution: to...

By Henry Stathis on 04 Nov 11:32

VertiCool Garden

Introduction

Coming into this project, our group, comprised of Matt Britt, George Burley and Jasper Alvandi, saw the potential to create a project that would have a value to society. Our initial...

By Jasper Yeghiaian-Alvandi on 04 Nov 11:19

Water filtration

Introduction:

 

Access to clean water is an issue for almost half of the Earth’s 7 billion strong population. According to the World Health Organization, only 59% of the population have...

By Hamish Scott-Stevenson on 04 Nov 10:58

Wind Turbine Sublime!

Good morning and welcome.

GROUP - Zak Knight, Zac Kerta, Matthew Putt e Lucas Tarlington.

 

Background Research

Stimulus: Make the World a little better (for you and me)

 

Idea: ...

By Matthew Putt on 04 Nov 10:13

Filtering For A Better World - Hatzipavlis, Marchese, Burkitt-Doyle, Peppercorn

Below is our groups blog post WITHOUT any photos embedded. Here we have attatched a PDF of our full blog post WITH photos embedded. BlogPost.pdf

 

WATER FILTRATION - Blog Post

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By Massimo Marchese on 04 Nov 10:07

Recyclable Cardboard Chair

Why/How it will help the world

Our group wanted to create something that was easy to make, reusable, and much needed in the world. When thinking about materials, we decided that recycled cardboard...

By Thomas Laird on 04 Nov 09:48

Solar Powered Pizza - Progress #3

Result: 

The temperature inside the container reached a high of 90 degrees celsius. With this temperature, it took around 2 hours for the hashbrowns to be ready. However, it must be taken into...

By Justin Ly on 04 Nov 09:20

Solar Powered Pizza - Progress #2

Process: 

Pictures from our progress: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AK9dkpL12SW9EoWXkOYFjIm0Cg2394bcsVdqLhzB67U/edit

 

We began with a mooncake box, we chose this because we...

By Justin Ly on 04 Nov 09:17

Water through Condensation

It’s estimated by the World Health Organization that only 60% of people in the world have access to clean water. This is simply unacceptable as it means that 2 800 000 000 people...

By Mitchell Long on 04 Nov 08:52

Solar Powered Pizza - Progress #1

Our school project of making the world a better place was driven by the unfairness of global poverty, and how many people in our world die of starvation, malnutrition, food poisoning and polluted...

By Justin Ly on 03 Nov 15:03

Treat Yourshelf

Remember that time you were given a book for Christmas from your grandmother? And instead of reading it, you just let it gather dust on your shelf. Or that time you read a book, and then didn't...

By Brian Wu on 03 Nov 12:51

Poseidon's Day and Night Lights

 

Introduction

In some of the most impoverished slums in our world, access to light within a dwelling is restricted by electricity and lack of windows to capture sunlight. As seen above, the...

By James Kolesnyk on 03 Nov 09:42

Evaporation for Life

Welcome to evaporation for life, where we change the world one solar powered distiller at a time. By using entirely recyclable items, that are incredibly easy to attain, we can assist others less...

By Max Quinn on 03 Nov 08:52

Simple but effective

In some of the most poverty-stricken areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, 25mm of rain can fall in a single day. The next day, almost all of it will be gone. People in arid and semi arid areas need to make...

By Matthew Bramich on 03 Nov 08:36

Use what you've got to make the world a little bit better

This year, our IB science students were tasked with making the world a little better using what they already had - recycling, re-using,re-purposing. The topic was inspired by some global...

By Brenda Knowles on 01 Nov 10:33

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