YOKOHAMA Science Frontier High School 27 Oct 2011

Hi ! Everyone nice to meet you guys again. Well this event is quite interesting. However I hope you weren't mislead by the title above saying that " YOKOHAMA high school " which means I was in Japan. ^.^ Actually this event was held in USM, Pulau Pinang, at Peninsular Malaysia. Do you know that actually the organiser only invited four schools from Penang? And , well, you might wonder why I'm able to attend this event, a workshop actually. Frankly speaking, I was told by my school teacher about this upcoming event because her daughter is in USM too. As I am interested in Science , so I decided to join in, and I did it secretly , somehow it just didn't turns out to be a secret at all.
   At first my dad and I tend to sit at the back and pretend to be one of the audience without the organiser's notice. Due to my dad's formal suits, so he was mistaken as  one of the invited teacher who named Lim by the Prof. Rahim. Though our cover was being exposed, he still smile at us, and moreover, he also invited my dad to sit with the teachers or the VIP. >,< 
  More interesting is that at there I was, seriously, the only one from Kedah and the only representative of my school, it's kinda' like an honour to be there ><. the organiser was very happy to know that there was a person from Kedah to manage to join them in this event. I will show you some of the pictures before the event started.

 Those how sat at the centre in front , that two row of students are from Japan. They were the ones who gave us presentation on what they have found in their research , rather an experimental report.

                                                        This is the agenda for this event.

   I was impressed by their presentation. Although their English command not that good but their knowledge perhaps message were show on their slides clearly. Do you what, they actually aren't high school students compared to we Malaysia's high school students, they actually have some command on the knowledge that we so called university knowledge. For example, one of the students do actually find the formulae and prove for the oscilations of the pendulum and knowing what are the error of many aspects. That's what we Malaysia kind'a lack of. Somehow we can't deny that we don't have that kind of facilities for student's to carry out such advance research and experiments.
  Below here are some photos of their presentation slides, I hope you won't be dumbfounded>< joking~~

 After every 7 presentations , there was a small break for us, the first break , something interesting yet funny happened, we were led by a girl form the university. She had taught us to do some exercise. but however it turned out to be a kind of dance. haha><. It's fun .

MightyMinds Challenge KL

Wow!! After the intense competition I was back , haha, not in triumph. Though it was an amazing experience. Here's some of the pictures of the model that the competitants made with their mighty minds and 'Maniac" bare hands ><. 

  

 These is the lower category's model. Though I don't have all the pictures of the models there, I hope readers will enjoy it. : D

 

And these are the models for the upper category.

Mighty Minds Challenge

Mighty Minds Challenge is an amazing and outstanding competition. It brings you to a whole new perspect of your knowledge in KBKK. In there you must face many tough challenge which are heart killing challenge, in order to play safe in these challenge you must equip yourself with selfesteem, confident, bravery, fabulous skills of speaking, maniac minds of Science, lightning speed of Mathematics skills. ( Just kidding, don't be overcome by the bombastic words)
   One must learn about the recent hot issues from the news, Science for KBKK and other general application of Science ( including Biology, Physics,Chemistry , especially for the Upper Category , the F4F5.) , Mathematics for KBKK(Modern Maths and Add Maths) and some other tricks for problem solving, Geography, IT facts, Banking facts, Sports, History , and Entertainments too. Wow !! It did looks tough actually but I think everyone can do it just a bit of luck.
    History for the MightyMinds State Challenge:
 1st year : there are 3 stages,
                > the Multiple Choice Questions ( MCQ ) - an elimination round to select the top 15 teams
                > the Hands-On Challenge - an elimination round to get the top 5 teams
                > the Oral Presentation ( this year's oral presentation ( 2009) was carried at the table of each qualifiied teams from the Hands-On challenge )

2nd year : there are 4 stages
               >the MCQ- elimination round , select the top 15 teams
               >the Hands-On Challenge - elimination round to get the top 5 teams
               > the Oral Presentation ( this year's oral presentation (2010) was carried out on a stage ---- the required topics of the model are :
~the Science and Maths concept used in the model
~Test and Commisioning your model
~the Uniqueness of your model
~Ways to improve your model
~How to commercialise your model
               > the Quiz Buzzer ----(There are 15 Question,  first 9 Questions are answer individually and in order, the last 6 Questions were answered with teamwork.) There are marks deducted for this year's Quiz Buzzer.
3rd year : there are 4 stages
               >the MCQ- elimination round , select the top 15 teams

               >the Hands-On Challenge - elimination round to get the top 5 teams
               > the Oral Presentation ( this year's oral presentation (2011) was carried out on a stage ---- the required topics of the model are :
~the Science and Maths concept used in the model
~Test and Commisioning your model
~the Uniqueness of your model
~Ways to improve your model
~How to commercialise your model
               > the Quiz Buzzer ----(There are 15 Question,  first 9 Questions are answer individually and in order, the last 6 Questions were answered with teamwork.) There are no marks deducted for the first try , but marks are deducted for the second try for this year's Quiz Buzzer.

This year (2011) is my first year to enter the Grand Final of MightyMinds Challenge, and here goes the schedule fo the National Challenge:
1st day :
   >Hands-On Challenge---30%--2 hours ( there is one short oral presentation(1 min) carried out at each teams' table)
   >Minds-On Challenge---10% ( this challenge require your problem solving skills ) You need to explain how you get the answer and the answer )
  > MCQ----20%(all the team members were separated into three group, everyone must answer the quesiton individually, 1 person of the team correct get 10 marks, 2 persons of the team correct get 20 marks, and all the members of the team correct you will get bonus mark , 5points, and thus you will get 35 marks for that single question) the total marks scored in the MCQ must be divided by 35 to get the percentage earned from the MCQ
2nd day:
   >Oral Presentation--20% ( this part very challengeing, the top 5 qualified teams must make their oral presentation using PowerPoint Presentation on stage, and the time given was 5 minutes , the requirement is the same and the State Challenge )
   > Quiz Buzzer---20% ( same as the State Challenge )