#1 – Uber: Emerging Controversies in Latin America’s Technological Globalization
Lincoln School of Costa Rica
Room 611
Essential Question:
To what extent can Uber’s legality be justified through the legal, economical, and commercial means at local and international levels?
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Impact Statement:
We plan to successfully serve 50 people by January 2017 with the help of important political leaders and Uber Costa Rica, using workshops to teach the solutions and collaborating with local Taxi companies and Uber to effectively resolve this issue.
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#2 – School Designs
American School of Tegucigalpa
Room 613
Essential Question:
How can recycling textiles and clothes help our communities our school and the environment?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWsQqhHd9L8
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Impact Statement:
We want to successfully serve three schools by December 2016 using old school uniforms and clothes by recycling them into pencil pouches, tote bags, bottle holders, shoe laces,backpacks and many more by working as a team and asking for donations to our community to accomplish our goal of effectively organizing our school community and promote textile recycling.
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Workshop Description:
Our project School Design consists of recycling our school uniforms and clothes. Then, we will convert the school uniforms and clothes into other products like tote bags, pencil pouches, hair bows, purses, etc. and donate them to schools with limited resources. We will collect donations from our school community of the uniforms and cloth that they no longer use. We will create a workshop in our school so students volunteer and they will create the products we will later donate. The problem we wanted to solve was that the people who attended the limited resources school don’t have bags etc. and we wanted to help them. Helping them also benefits the world by recycling, which reduces pollution.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jZIexyG7lg&feature=youtu.be
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#3 – ConociendoME:
Sex Education Program For Children in Public School
Colegio Bolivar
Room 614
Essential Question:
How freedom and gender equality helps prevent conflicts in society?
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Impact Statement:
In “ConociendoME” we plan to successfully serve 30 kids from ages 8-11 by guiding 8 sessions throughout the second semester using our investigation, ludic strategies, and counseling methods to accomplish our goal of effectively teaching children to be aware of the importance of gender equity for healthy interpersonal relationships in the present and future of their lives.
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Workshop Description:
Description of our Workshop: During our workshop, we will present general information on some problems related to the kids and sexuality in our country, such as child abuse, child prostitution, early pregnancies, etc. Furthermore, we will share the investigative phase, exploration, and learning we went through to pose an intervention project with the kids at the public school of our community. Basically, we are presenting the ways we took to design and implement an 8 workshop cycle on sexual education based on the values of liberty and gender equity; making an emphasis on the methodology we implemented and the advice from experts we put to practice. Finally, we will talk about the future activities we are planning to carry out: an intervention with the parents of the kids at the public school to raise awareness about the values of gender equity from the children´s home.
Learning goals for your workshop:
1. What is sexuality and how does it adapt to a program on sexual education for children?
2. How to get professionals involved in your project?
3. Why connect the parents in a sexual education project?
4. What should you take into account when working with a community that is in vulnerable conditions?
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#4 – Arsenic
Colegio Americano de Torreón
Room 615
Essential Question:
Is our community still receiving arsenic-polluted water?
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Impact Statement:
We have researched and updated data on the efforts of the official water departments in our community to provide arsenic-free water in Torreón from January 2015- March 2016. We have been trying to assure our community is receiving arsenic-free water by interviewing and pressuring water authorities to provide clean water for the population in Torreón since January 2015 to March 2016.
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Workshop Description:
During our workshop, we will present general information on some problems related to the kids and sexuality in our country, such as child abuse, child prostitution, early pregnancies, etc. Furthermore, we will share the investigative phase, exploration, and learning we went through to pose an intervention project with the kids at the public school of our community. Basically, we are presenting the ways we took to design and implement an 8 workshop cycle on sexual education based on the values of liberty and gender equity; making an emphasis on the methodology we implemented and the advice from experts we put to practice. Finally, we will talk about the future activities we are planning to carry out: an intervention with the parents of the kids at the public school to raise awareness about the values of gender equity from the children´s home.
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#5 – The E.M.P. – Environmental Migrant Project
The American School Foundation of Guadalajara
Room 616
Essential Question:
How can we interact with migrants crossing Mexico while being environmentally friendly?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzwiZduVJQA&feature=youtu.be
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Impact Statement:
We have successfully served about 30 people by the end of February. We worked with an organization that gives assistance to people crossing Mexico in cargo trains. We made backpacks with the vinyl from used billboards in our school and we filled them with donations of clothes, shoes, blankets, food items, toiletries, etc.
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Workshop Description:
We have successfully served about 30 people by the end of February. We worked with an organization that gives assistance to people crossing Mexico in cargo trains. We made backpacks with the vinyl from used billboards in our school and we filled them with donations of clothes, shoes, blankets, food items, toiletries, etc.
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#6 – Solar Energy
The Columbus School
Room 621
Essential Question:
Why is solar energy important?
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Impact Statement:
The installation of the first source of renewable energy at The Columbus School will benefit not only everyone at school but also the environment. The solar panel installation project will continue throughout the years to increase the use of solar energy at the school; also by influencing other school to join and do the same.
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Workshop Description:
This project involves replacing some of the electric energy at the school with solar energy. We can take better care of our environment by being a positive influence in the country,
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#7 -iGEM: Illegal Mining & Mercury Pollution
Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt/ The American School of Lima
Room 622
Essential Question:
How can we use synthetic biology to solve mercury poisoning in Peru’s rainforests?
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Impact Statement:
Our goal is to create a biosensor that will help to indicate mercury pollution in water and ultimately minimize the effects of illegal mining in local communities in Peru.
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Workshop Description:
Our goal is to create a cheap and easy to use probe to detect mercury in water through the lense of molecular biology. We will modify E.coli so that it glows when it comes into contact with mercury. What is illegal mining? What is mercury poisoning and why should we care? What is synthetic biology?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj3mjWSQMHk
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#8 – Saving Water at Montessori
Colegio Montessori
Room 623
Essential Question:
How can Montessori school students contribute to the protection of water resources?
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Impact Statement:
We expect to serve 350 students initially by October 2016 using fundraising activities to develop campaigns that will allow a reduction in water consumption and waste.
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#9 – 360º Change
The Columbus School
Room 624
Essential Question:
How can we reduce the amount of plastic consumed at Pan- American School that ends up in our oceans and water systems?
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Impact Statement:
We have visited 10 classes ranging from 20-25 students each meaning we have impacted 250 children from the ages to 4 and 5 to 9 and 10 (K4 to 5th grade). We have used strategies such as impacting facts, games and didactic presentations that the kids can engage with, as well as posters that we put up in K4 to serve as a remainder of the importance of taking care of our planet.
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Workshop Description:
Workshop description: The world is in danger and we have to educate little kids in how to take care of it so we don’t make the mistakes previous generations have made during the years. For the seminar 2020 course we are doing a project called “360 change” which consists in teaching kids from grades form K4 and K5 to save the world. We will start by teaching them basic things all Columbus School students should know, for example, how to recycle, turn off the light when we are not using them, turn of the water when we are not using it. We will also implement ideas about what we and them can do to save our world which is in a fragile state in this moment. To teach the little kids about the earth’s situation, their role in saving it and what they can do to help. This way we will give them the chance to take a role as we are doing in this moment to save the world. In reality our world is in a fragile state in this moment and if we don’t do something to change this then finally global warming and other actions will take place which will lead to our world destruction and we as citizens of the world don’t want this actions to take place.
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