Exploration – sophat

December 15, 2017January 15, 2018

Future Food

Name that one thing that all human needed to survive, of course, food! Where are food come from? Well, agriculture is where most of our food came from. We grow a variety of food using soil and water. But as the population growing rapidly, we don’t have enough of those resources to do this old farming method. So what can we do? Well, we can instead of using soil, use a system called Hydroponic. Hydroponic is an agricultural system using sponge/perlite as growing median and water as the nutrition source. Unlike the traditional agriculture where we need a large space of land to farm, hydroponic is a system where we can install it in such a small space such as wall etc.

So basically we mix the water in our reservoir with nutrition solution, and as the water flows through the system, the plant will observe the nutrition and water to grow itself. Once the water flows through the whole raising bed, it flows back straight to the reservoir and ready to reuse again in the system. By growing produce in hydroponics, we can save both land and water which are really essential for our growing population.

So in an exploration called Future Food, we’re working on getting one of this new technique running so that we can supply the product to the main kitchen and for the senior cohort. In a group of eight students, I am working as a 3D designer for the project. So for any project, we need a clear plan on how things going look and how things going with each so I designed a 3D model of the whole system using a software called Inventor. One of the biggest challenges I face during this process is finding the exact measurement for all the parts in the system. The thing is that I started working on this project without any actual parts to measure, so I have to look through all over the internet for those measurements which take so much time. This challenge gave me a good practice in my researching skill, which is a really good opportunity to improve.

October 20, 2017

To Spray or Not To Spray?

To Spray or Not To Spray, is the first exploration of the academic year that I’ve involved in. In this exploration we focus on a topic of pesticide. We work tirelessly in order to make a magazine for our final product; to spread the awareness of what is going on here with all pest control at Liger . We knew close to nothing about this topic, so we search all through the internet and trips to gather all the information we needed for our articles. As the result of hard working, we created a magazine with 11 articles. Out of the 11 articles, I wrote an article about all category of pesticides which called Insect Assassins. Writing this article is pretty challenging for me since I needed to google every single aspect of the article. At the same time, I learned so much from my article which makes me really happy about my work and hopefully it will teach other students about all the thing I learned from it.

This is the link to the

https://www.lucidpress.com/documents/edit/21b9160d-68f3-4d87-b558-2aefefa7a134

October 10, 2017October 30, 2017

Trip To Snoul

In the process of writing the article for the Dispers magazine, the To Spray or Not To Spray team took a three day trip to Snoul, Kratie province. On the way there the team stopped at a bunch of agrochemical shops to see what type of pesticide did they selling in their shops and asked for information that we needed. Once we arrived our destination, we just get some rest and be ready for the next day. The next day came and we all excited for it. So we jump on our bus and settle off to the organic farm where all the activities are happening. At the farm we start off by walking all around seeing all the crop they grew there. Then we help the worker there to plant some carrots which were very fun. After that our team started to interview Ramon (farming director) for what we need for our magazine especially about the organic pesticide. The conversation had with Ramon gone amazing, questions were asked and answers were given. After the long conversation we had, it’s time for some more action. So we headed to the carrot farm again to harvest the one that is ready. It is everybody’s first time so we got a lot of fun with it. As much as we have fun, we learn a lot from this trip. One takeaway that I got is to experience new technique of farming using only organic by all of those hands-on activities we’ve done on the farm. At the end of the trip, we gather about 55% of the information needed for our articles which pumped us all up to do some more writing.

September 20, 2016

Coding Exploration

This is the last round of exploration before summer. This is a special exploration where we have a professional coder as our teacher. In this exploration we learn how to make game. The game that we make are connected to the economic book that we have wrote. In this game we use four programming language such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS. We mainly use JavaScript for our game. So how we work together as a team with 16 student? So first we divide into four group with four student each. There are Engine team, Data team, User Interface (UI) team and Tutorial team. The Engine team is designing the structure of the game. The Data team Is the team that organize all the data and event in the game. The UI is really important it’s the one who make animation and design what the game should look like. Last but not least Tutorial team is team is work on teaching people how to play our game. So I’m in the data team. My team work is to organize all the data for the Engine team to work with. At last we can indicated that we done 90% of the work but it’s turn out that our game would work in the slow computer.

Link to our game
http://economy.rocks/

Here is what our game looks like!

April 28, 2016

Entrepreneurship

This is my fourth year in The Liger Learning Center. One of the most important exploration in this was entrepreneurship. In this exploration we learn how to make a business which is making chili sauce. All the student need to be in this exploration. So we have four group of 12 to 13 students in each exploration term. I am in the third group of this exploration. In each exploration we divide into many deference team to work on deference thing. In this round of exploration we have four deference team. They are Label team, Outreach team, Legal team and Product Development team. So I’m in Label team. In the last two exploration we have notice how important is the label. The reason that the label are really important is because label is the first thing see from your product. Another reason why it so important is because label is the one that make your product jump out of from other product. But It turn out we not really good at turning the drawing into victor, professional label. So we got a really good opportunity to work with a professional company for free. We work with a company named CBX. CBX is a brand agency based in New York city and it has it’s office all over the country. We work with one of its office in Minnesota. We video call with them once a week. The First week that we mate them they give a very good idea on how to named your company (name bucket). Then we draw out the label from the name that we have. Then we sent them the drawing to turn it into victor design. After we get the first draft we give them feedback to change some part of it so we get what we want.
This the Label that they that we have.

Drawing

First Draft

Second draft

April 4, 2016

Drone Expert

This is the first exploration that lead by students. My exploration was about drone. In this exploration we learn how to fly and take footage with drone. First we started with a cheap plastic drone. Then when comfortable with it, we bought a professional drone which is DJI Phantom 3 Advanced. With this new drone we use it for a new business which is drone service. We have a new company name Cambodia Aerial Photography (CAP). This business is started by Four students from the Liger Learning Center (LLC). The Reason why we started this business is because we just want to pay back to LLC for the price of the drone. So far we have 8 pilot (4 boys, 4 girls).

March 8, 2016

Marine Conservation

Marine Conservation is a group of 12 student from Liger Learning Center that learn about marine conservation during a seven week long project.The group researched and learn more about marine life and understand the recent problems of marine ecosystems in Cambodia. The goal of this project is to protect Cambodia marine ecosystems. To accomplish this goal we work very hard to finish our Proposal for a Feasibility Study of Algal Farming as an Alternative Livelihood for Cambodian Fishermen. This document explain the problem of Cambodia marine ecosystems, possible solution, proposal for a feasibility study for Liger student in study year of 2016-2017 and information about what we doing in pilot exploration. We took a field trip to Koh Seh in Kep province to visit MCC Marine Conservation Cambodia. MCC is a organization that protect Cambodian marine ecosystems. We spent 1 week with them and we got to learn so many thing from them. We learn about marine organism, history of the island and last thing was snorkel and scuba diving. We not just learning we also do beach clean up. We collect about 130 kg of trash in an hour.

On the boat
History walk
Off to snorkling

August 19, 2015

Bunong exploration

[wr_row][wr_column]Exploration: Bunong minority

Number of students: 12

Duration: 10 Aug30 Sep

Learning Facilitators: Phearun/ Jaime

Essential Questions:

1. What are the values and traditions for Bunong minorities?

2. How have they preserved their cultural traditions sustainably?

3. What are the issues they are facing in their living situation presently?

4. What are there different life cycle between Bunong and Khmer people?

5. What are the differences of lifestyles between Bunong and Khmer people?

6. How does their education differ from Liger or government schools?

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of their cultural superstitions?

Description:

Almost all countries of the world are existing minorities, including Cambodia as well. There are approximately

twenty indigenous minorities living in Cambodia, which most of them inhabit the Northeast and East. In this

exploring project, we will basically study about Bunong people who is one of the Cambodian indigenous

minorities. Students will conduct cultural studies, particularly their culture, belief, lifestyle, interaction, tradition,

right, living situation and so on. In this research, students will partly focus on the present issues applying

influences over their living conditions. The faith, which is a crucial component, will be proposed to students to

explore as it is supposed to be a fascinating topic and different from Khmer majorities. Also, we will find out

how they are able to preserve their cultural traditions even it’s currently under the management of government

authorities. Increasingly, we will have a field trip to Mondulkiri, where Bunong communities are situated in, to

discover directly from them by interviewing and seeing obvious aspects surrounding them. The trip will be

collaborated with ICSO, which is closely working with indigenous communities in Cambodia. After seven weeks

over the course, students will be able to illustrate their understandings of Bunong people and be aware of

current issues they are facing, so they can find some solutions to cope with those. Students will publish a book

with photographs, that will be described, they captured as their final product of the exploration to share with

government schools in Cambodia, as well as the world. Additionally, they will have practiced with learning

outcome skills such as interviewing, presentation, computer development and experienced learning outside the

classroom and expertise with photographs.[/wr_column]][wr_text]Exploration: Bunong minority