William Shakespeare

What a great way to start the year, our facilitator really set us into something difficult and different this year which was to learn and read some snippets of Shakespeare’s play for the very first Module. It was difficult to read of course, but I’ve learned a lot from this module itself and since we started the year school late, this module has been included in the second round as well. During this Module, we were mainly focusing on Romeo and Juliet, but once we finished with Romeo and Juliet, we moved on to Twelfth Night but because of the timing we didn’t really get to read a lot and dive deep into the play. For the final assessment, we have to do a podcast that compares one Shakespeare play to another movie or book that we’ve known. Click here to listen to my podcast.

 

 

Community Cleanup Campaign (CCC)

The first round of exploration this year lasted for a very small period of time because we already came back to school late. I was a part of a project called Community Cleanup Campaign (CCC) which was led by one of our alumni. The initial goal of this project was to build an incinerator at a government school in Kampong Speu province, but Covid didn’t allow us to continue with this goal so we decided to build one on our Campus. We face many challenges like what is the alternative for all the products that we can’t find in the country and who is going to build it for us, but after four weeks of doing all of the research and planning, we successfully built one in the campus. This is a picture of the incinerator.

Being a part of this project taught me the importance of collaboration. This project only consisted of 6 people, but we were able to get a lot of works done in 4 weeks, including a draft report of the incinerator.

Coordinate Graph

          If you were ask me to tell you about coordinate graph, the answer that I’ll give you back probably “I don’t know anything about that”. This round in math class we focused on two main different things which are algebra and coordinate graph. I used to hate algebra because it is so annoying and complicated to do, but whenever I give a try on algebra when I do the word problems, I started to realize little by little how easier it became using algebra to solve the word problems, but this time we dive little bit deeper into algebra which is a little bit more complicated, but I still take on the challenge and I did it. For coordinate graph, it was really confusing and difficult at first even though I used to learn about graph, but not this kind of four graph. It was very hard to catch up and really understand what my facilitator try to explain us, but when I asked her more questions, she started to explain more about it and I started to understand more about the coordinate graph. Throughout all of this learning process, I just know that I always take on different challenging and I never make myself upset on taking those challenging even once.

Self Learning

Self learning isn’t a really difficult and easy thing to do. This round our facilitator decided to give us to take on a challenge to be an independent learner. We can learn anything that related to code and multimedia (adobe programs). I’m really into editing so I decided to learn more about “Adobe After Effects” I’ve been using Adobe After Effects for about 5 months now, but I don’t really challenge myself to do something that kinda more advanced. This time I decided to get out of my comfort zone and try something that kinda challenging for me. I decided to focus on a project call 3d room” ​I saw a lot of good 3d room on social media and then I decided to try it out by myself. It was really challenging at first because in the process of making it I learned a lot of new tool in Adobe After Effects, but it worth my time because after spending 1 week focusing on doing this 3d room I did it and I got to explore a lot more stuff in Adobe After Effects. I only use youtube as my main resource and use some of my knowledge that I always have. This is the final product:

Engineering (Exploration)

        “Cambodia Friendly” It seems like most of the engineering project that our school want to deliver to Cambodia wasn’t a really easy way to do because some of the supplies that we need to make a product is not a Cambodia friendly, but we came up with a project that we can deliver STEM & Engineering. We decided to create this project because we really want to share what we know about STEM and Engineering to government school. We was struggling to come up with idea what we want to create that we be able to design by ourselves and importantly it should be Cambodia friendly. My team and I, we came up with a product call Shooter (it sounds dangerous and in real life it is also dangerous, but we tell the students not to shoot at each other). We went to two different government school and it was a really amazing experience to spend time with the student there because it seems like they are so excited for our project.

Khmer

        ក្នុងនាមជាកូនខ្មែរមួយរូប យ៉ាងហោចណាស់ក៏ត្រូវដឹងនៅប្រវត្តិសាស្ត្រតិចតួចរបស់ប្រទេសខ្លួនដែរ។ នៅក្នុងជុំសិក្សាទី៤នេះ នៅក្នុងថ្នាក់ខ្មែរយើង បានផ្តោត​ ទៅលើប្រវត្តិសាស្ត្ររបស់ប្រទេសកម្ពុជា ដូចជា អត្ថន័យនៃពាក្យខ្មែរ និងកម្ពុជា កវីចំណាននៅប្រទេសកម្ពុជា និង ការអភិវឌ្ឍន៍នៃភាសាខ្មែរ។ ខ្ញុំ បានរៀនជាច្រើនទាំងទងអំពីប្រវត្តិសាស្ត្ររបស់ប្រទេសកម្ពុជា។ អត្ថន័យនៃពាក្យខ្មែរ និងកម្ពុជា គឺជាចំណុចសំខាន់មួយដែរ​ កូនខ្មែរទាំងអស់ត្រូវដឹង ពីព្រោះ នៅមានកូនខ្មែរមួយចំនួននៅមិនទាន់ដឹងថា តើដើមកំណើតពាក្យខ្មែរមកពីណានៅឡើយទេ? សម្រាប់កវីចំណាននៅប្រទេសកម្ពុជាវិញ គឺមានច្រើនជាងដែរយើង នឹងស្មានមិនដល់ ហើយគាត់បានផ្លាស់ប្តូរប្រទេសកម្ពុជា ជាច្រើន។ ជាចុងក្រោយ សម្រាប់ការអភិវឌ្ឍន៍នៃភាសាខ្មែរវិញគឺ ពិតជាប្លែកខ្លាំងមែន។

Percentage

            “15% discount” I believe you have seen this word at least once since you were born until now and I also believe it gives you at least a bit of the glue what I’ve been working and studying on in math class. I can say that I know nothing about Percentage except the sign that represents a percentage “%”. It has been a really good lesson to take during my math class. We did a lot of exercises about percentage. I also meet a lot of struggles during the lesson, but I always find a way to solve it as fast as possible because I want to make sure I know exactly what I was doing. Khan plays a really important role in my life because when I have free time I always try to do at least 3-4 Khan Assignment that Sam (our math’s facilitator) assigned to us. At the end of this round, I finally know at least 95% of the percentage lesson.

Programming (Python)

        “It hards to communicate, but at least we try” It is exactly how I always feel when I do coding. Python isn’t that hard, but not that easy for me either. I met a lot of difficulties during all of my assignments specifically for my turtle race assignment in Codeclub. There is a lot of new function in that assignment that I have to use, but I never have seen it before. I test my code so many time and there is always going to be at least one error in one of those tests, but I did solve all of them. Then, I came to the point where they need me to use the penup() and pendown() tool. At first, I completely have no idea what both of those function do. I read the instruction, again and again, to see if I’m going to have a better understanding of those two functions, but still, it didn’t help me at all. I decided to check my code and run it over and over again and finally I only understand about 25% of what those functions do, but I still what to make sure that I really understand it, so I went to my friends and ask them to explain to me about the penup() and pendown() functions do. Then I finally got it and I was so happy that I finally learn something new after I meet all of those struggles. If you want to see my turtle race project click on this link.

Percentage

            “15% discount ” I believe you have seen this word at least once since you were born until now and I also believe it gives you at least a bit of the glue what I’ve been working and studying on in math class. I can say that I know nothing about Percentage except the sign that represents a percentage “%”. It has been a really good lesson to take during my math class. We did a lot of exercises related to the percentage. I also meet a lot of struggles during the lesson, but I always find a way to solve it as fast as possible because I want to make sure I know exactly what I was doing. Khan plays a really important role in my life because when I have free time I always try to do at least 3-4 Khan Assignment that Sam (our math’s facilitator) assigned to us. At the end of this round, I finally know at least 95% of the percentage lesson.

Reading Different Novel

          For this round, we are really focusing on learning/reading about a different kind of novel. Our facilitator decided to divide us into four different teams and each has was assigned to read a different book and try to finish it in a month. The books were Wonder by R. J. Palacio, Looking for Alaska by John Green, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, and The Outsider by S. E. Hinton. My friend, Rayuth and I were assigned to read the Monster book. It is a really interesting book to read because it was so different from other books that I have read because this book is written in a screenplay and it is really easy and convenient to read. This story talks about a 16 years old boy, Steve Harmon (the main character in the story) who was accused that he involved in a crime in the drugstore and was sent to the courtroom for a trial. First, it is really difficult for me to understand what is the author trying to tell us, but then I decided to reread it and then I finally get what the author really means. I also learn a lot of new vocabularies from this book, too. Here is the cover of the book in case you want to see it.  For this round, we are really focusing on learning/reading about a different kind of novel. Our facilitator decided to divide us into four different teams and each has was assigned to read a different book and try to finish it in a month. The books were Wonder by R. J. Palacio, Looking for Alaska by John Green, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, and The Outsider by S. E. Hinton. My friend, Rayuth and I were assigned to read the Monster book. It is a really interesting book to read because it was so different from other books that I have read because this book is written in a screenplay and it is really easy and convenient to read. This story talks about a 16 years old boy, Steve Harmon (the main character in the story) who was accused that he involved in a crime in the drugstore and was sent to the courtroom for a trial. First, it is really difficult for me to understand what is the author trying to tell us, but then I decided to reread it and then I finally get what the author really means. I also learn a lot of new vocabularies from this book, too. Here is the cover of the book in case you want to see it.