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Name: Crosby
Country: Australia
Birthday: 10/27/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: Reading blogs, blogging, cycling, computer gaming, ice skating, listening to music, playing my instruments, eating, sleeping
Expertise: Chemistry, physics, maths, nanotechnology
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
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MSN: darkmutant@hotmail.com
Member Since:
8/7/2004
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| Not literally... I'll still be within the Perth metropolitan area. But this blog will lay dormant for a while until Thursday, 3rd December. I'll be off to the AMYC09 camp at Ern Halliday Camping Ground (right next to Hillary's Boat Harbour). Prepare for a barrage of photos and stories then. | | |
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Thank you gifts from the JCC kids.
Today was the last day with the JCC kids. It's been a great experience guiding them like a mentor. Seeing them "develop" from the shy kids on day 1 to giving a talk on their week's project on day 5 is... emotional. Watching them interact with each other brings me back to my own childhood days; I was once in their shoes. A brief glimpse of how parents must feel towards their kids, seeing us grow up.
Our group presenting the talk on the coke+mentos experiment.
Earlier on they surprised me with a breakfast gift of sandwich... very delicious!
It's only been a week, but I can sincerely say that I will miss them. Farewell, and all the best in whatever you guys pursue in your future. | | |
| This week, a bunch of (year 11 equivalent) kids from Jurong Junior College came to our physics school. They're attached to the research groups here for a week. I'm part of this program and takes care of 5 kids along with another colleague. We organised experiments for them to do:
- Fun with liquid nitrogen
- Latent heat of fusion (freezing)
- Coke + Mentos experiment
- Build a simple giant hard drive (encode 2 letters on it with 10 bar magnets)
- Lenz's law
- Chaotic pendulum
The whole of this week has been occupied with taking care of the JCC kids. And...
...according to NaT, I'm like the male version of a mother hen taking care of the kids...
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