Category: 2016-2017

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Teachnovation 2017

   

I joined Technovation girls for 12 weeks to learn how to code and write a business plan. In this 12 week, we need to invent an app that connected to one of this 6 topic: Health, Education, Peace, Environment, Gender equality, and Poverty. The mentors had expected us after we joined this event we should know how to code in Inventor, know how to write a business plan, know how to present in public and motivate more girls to love technology.

My team and I had created an app call Magic Writer, that focus on education.Writer is an application that help Cambodian students on developing and improving their writing skills. We want Cambodian students to practice inventing new ideas and practice writing the second language. By using this the students can express their feeling and write it out.

After these 12 week learning and making, we had an event where we present to a judge. If we win we will present again but with a bigger audience and also where you will win the best app in Cambodia. As we know that girls don’t really get a chance to learn this type of thing so that’s why I take a risk to join this event. By doing so, I learn new thing from this event and change people’s perspective that girl can do anything that boy can do. As the new generation, this event had a lot of impact on me that makes me want to learn more about coding and join this event again.

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Change Cambodia 2016-2017

Through this years 2016-2017, I have learned and explored lots of things that allowed me to create change. Based on my experiences, there are three classes that really stand out in my mind: Game Design, Technovation, and Preventative health. These classes have shown me what the real world looks like and also to develop an idea into a real thing.

   I joined Technovation girls for 12 weeks to learn how to code and write a business plan. In this 12 week, we need to invent an app that connected to one of this 6 topic: Health, Education, Peace, Environment, Gender equality, and Poverty. The mentors had expected us after we join this event we should know how to code in Inventor, write a business plan, know how to present in public and wanted girls to involved in this program. After these 12 week learning and making, we had an event where we present to a judge. If you win you will present again but with a bigger audience and also where you will win the best app in Cambodia. Moreover even you lose in the first round you still have a chance to win to go to the USA. As we know that girls don’t really get a chance to learn this type of thing so that’s why I take a risk to join this event. By doing so, I learn new thing from this event and change people’s perspective that girl can do anything that boy can do. As the new generation, this event had a lot of impact on me that makes me want to learn more about coding and join this event again.  

Besides, in Game Design exploration we are trying to implement a boring game in the government school. Our goal in this exploration was to make an educational game also to build a solution to solve climate change. This game allows students have fun while learning new things as well as reviewing their lesson. Moreover, understand about climate change solution that we provided and can develop their own way to face with climate change. This game will Introduce them to a new way of learning from this educational game. Once we finish everything we will distribute our game to the government school in Cambodia. As a result, this game will help them to improve their learning and get a sense of a climate change that was happening in the world so that they can prepare them self.

Moreover, Preventative health is an exploration where we are teaching people in Koh Rong island to be healthy. We went to the school on that island and we present a little act to teach them about diabetes because it is very hard for them to go to the city and it would cost them a lot of money. We also learn from Song Saa Island about the ecosystem in the water like the coral reef, type of fish and jellyfish etc… It is my first time to see and learn about the ecosystem in the water and it makes me want to protect it more.   

In Conclusion, Everyone can be a change agent but you need to believe in yourself and do something that people needs. By starting from little to little it also considers as change agent. Every year we need to try something new and continue to reach our goal. Based on my expertise this year really change my years because I really think that this year’s have a lot of thing going on and I have learned a lot of things. 

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Game design team collaborate with Chhbar Ompov school

The game design team went to Chhbar Improv high school on 16.1.2017 to test out our game with the 7th-grade student. It was a fun experience to teach them about our game. When we explain them they said they don’t understand but we said that’s okay if you try you will know. When they started playing the game they were laughing and enjoying and understand how to play. But one of the problems is that they need us to lead them to start like to give some idea to do.

We went to the same school on 24.1.2016. Our group had followed up with the director. So this time we have 4 old students who played last week and 8 new students. For the new student, they understand faster than the last student and when their turn they know right away what they going to do. For the old student, they can play faster and get to solve more solution. Our problem was collaborating we not really talk together but we argue together so it makes the game so slower. But it was a lot of good exasperate for us to test our game with them.

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Preventative Heath

My highlights on Koh Rong island were to scooper dive, snorkel at Song Saa private reef and snorkel to see the seagrass and seeing a small jellyfish. That Private reef was amazing it is like a giant world and there are many biodiversities. I saw Butterflyfish, Sea urchin and giant coral reef. My Favorite part of the seagrass was to see the Chocolate chip starfish and Seahouse because I know some information and it seems to interest me about what it look like in real life and now I see one it make me very very happy. Our group was walking at the mangrove place and at there we saw a group of small jellyfish then we call each other to see. This trip is very cool to learn something that not really connected to our exploration but it’s a cool opportunity for me to learn about the under biodiversity.

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