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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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: ...
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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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...
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...
Process:
Pictures from our progress:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AK9dkpL12SW9EoWXkOYFjIm0Cg2394bcsVdqLhzB67U/edit
We began with a mooncake box, we chose this because we...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...