Doors to Diplomacy Project ID: 7277

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: Proper Garbage Disposal
Category: 7. Health and the Environment
URL: http://www.wix.com/streetwisebzmp13/garbagedisposal
Bibliography: http://www.wix.com/streetwisebzmp13/garbagedisposal#!bibliography

School: Saint Louis Laboratory High School
    Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines

4 students, ages 14-15 worked together to complete this Doors to Diplomacy project on March 15, 2012. They have participated in Doors to Diplomacy in the following year(s): 2011

Classes and Teachers: Vincent Tabor, Florida Martin, Patrick, Jessica, Orhen, Mitchelle

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.slu.edu.ph

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Team

'Our project is about Health and Environmental Awareness specifically about the problem on garbage disposal. Garbage disposal is how the citizens of the community dispose their garbage, especially on plastics. Plastics as we all know do not easily decompose by themselves. Disposing plastics properly is considered as one of our modern day problem around the world. People have no care for their own environment, because they are not still aware of the things that are happening today.

Instead of dumping their waste into their respective dumping places, like garbage cans and garbage pits, almost all of the people dump them anywhere which causes troubles, damages and problems, primarily floods which cause a great misery to the people who would be affected.

Despite all these things, they wouldn't still make a necessary action until they will experience a disastrous accident or happening that would destroy their homes, living(rice fields) and at most their lives that was caused by their own very wrong doings. And dumping garbage, specifically plastics, anywhere, like riverbanks and canals that are being clogged had been a habit to us people. These problems in our society are affected by our government officials and businessmen worldwide. Our government officials are doing something to solve this problem but unfortunately, it is not enough and it requires a lot of effort, time and specially the cooperation of the members of the community.

Our goal is to spread the information about the other ways of disposing plastics that may help lessen the problem on plastics. We also want that those people who would view our website would be awakened from their thinking that the world they are living in now is not like the world they were living in a few decades ago where in the world has still no environmental problems compared to our world today that has a lot of environmental problems. '

2. Summary of Our Project

Our project is about Health and Environmental Awareness specifically about the problem on garbage disposal. Instead of dumping their waste into their respective dumping places, like garbage cans and garbage pits, almost all of the people dump them anywhere which causes troubles, damages and problems, primarily floods which cause a greate misery to the people who would be affected. Despite all these things, they wouldn't still make a necessary action ntil they will eperience a disastrous accident or happening that would destroy their homes,living(rice fields), and at most their loves that was aused by their own very wrong doings. And dumping our garbages, specifically plastics, anywhere, like river banks and canals that are being clogged had been a habit to us people. These problems in our society are affected by our government officials and businessmen worldwide. Our govenrment officials are doing something to solve this problem but unfortunately, it is not enough and it requires a lot of effort, time and specially the cooperation of the members of the community. Our goal is to spread information about the other ways of disposing plastics that may help lessen the problem on plastics. We also want that those people who would view our website would be awakened from their thinking that the world we are living in now is not like the world we were living in a few decades ago werit has still no environmental problems compared to or world today that has a lot of environmental problems.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:2-3

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

We faced many problems during this project making. One problem is that, we are not complete because as human beings, we also have many different works to do so we don't have enough time for planning all these things. We had overcome this problem by setting all things aside and putting this project first. And it worked out. Another problem is when we failed during our first attempt but we had overcome this because of determination, teamwork and cooperation.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

'Presence and Cooperation is a must.' That is the quotation that best summarize our participation. Through this project that we made wherein we had experienced a lot of hardships, challenges, obstacles, and problems, we realized how important COOPERATION and PRESENCE is, and that's why we were able to form our quotation. We realized that without cooperation, our team would not be successful. Presence is very important in a team because wihtout the presence of each member of our team, our project will not be finished.

6. How did your activities and research for this Doors to Diplomacy Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

Our project supports content standards and require coursework or curriculum requirements by learning the skills imparted in our Technology and Home Economics Subject as doors to diplomacy is a required project.

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Project Elements

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your Doors to Diplomacy project?

a. Books -Laurouse Desk Reference(Encyclopedia), Exploring Science III, Mapeh Connections III. We used these for searching something that are hard to find in the internet b. Cellular phones -Nokia X302 -Samsung C3303K -Cherry Mobile C2 We used these cellular phones for communication purrposes, capturing pictures and videos for back ups. c. Camera -Sony CyberShot DCS-W330 We used this camera to take photos and videos to be used in our project. d. Computers We used these computers to encode, edit and search for other informations regarding our topic. e. Computer Software -Windows Movie Maker We used this to make and edit our videos. -www.wix.com We used this to create this website. -Windows MS 2007 We used this for encoding. f. Newspapers (Baguiio Midland Courier) We used this for gathering informations.

2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Doors to Diplomacy project both on-line and in person.

The way we will act as 'ambassadors' and spokepersons in our project ON-LINE is we made some pages that contain the link to our entry, and IN PERSON is we encourage, invite and inform our family members, friends, acquaintances, schoolmates, and the whole community about our project.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

The impact of our project in our community is very high. Our project made the difference by teaching the viewers of our website to reduce the usage of plastics. We would like them to realize that the world is about to be destroyed if we continue to do our wrong doings.

4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

Our project involved the other members of our community as helpers and volunteers by interviewing them (barangay officials, relatives and random people that we encountered in public places) about their opinion regarding plastics and garbages in general.

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