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Through the use of Google Cardboard, Richard Kim
and Francis Park show Jose Ward what the world
would look like to someone who is color blind. This
idea was inspired by one of the team members who
has personal experience with color blindness.
The topic of renewable energy was presented by fifth-grade students Peter Park, Chi-
hiro Koga, and Minhong Kim during the grade five exhibition on Apr. 20.
These fifth grade students wanted to pursue the topics of renewable energy or finding
a way to save animals, but decided to work with renewable energy in the end. For today’s
world to function, almost everything needs electrical energy, so why not make it clean
energy?
These students looked into different types of clean, renewable energy and settled on
solar panels since the sun is one of the most dependable sources of clean energy.
Minhong Kim said they “went for this topic because eventually coal will run out.” As
of 2011, there are only 255.8 billion short tons (232 trillion kilograms) of recoverable coal
using today’s technology. These students didn’t just research this topic to learn about the
situation of earth, but they took action too.
Peter Park said they took action by trying to persuading the school into using solar
panels and wrote an essay about it.
Minhong said, “We wanted solar panels because it is much more efficient and not as
costly compared to the 1970’s, when solar panels cost a lot.”
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Spring Student Life
TOPICS
What Causes Bad Health
Color Blindness
Energy
Helping Sick Children
Promote Adopting Pets
From Shelters
Lowering Stress Levels
Water Pollution
Stop War
Discrimination
Helping Orphans
Eating Healthy