Troop 3: Meeting 11

Coordinators: Ash, Ain, Yati, Daniel

Activities:

• Light Painting:

The Science Scouts took part in the Light Painting workshop, held in conjunction with the Science and Art Festival. Science Scouts created light photography art with extended exposure photography, a torchlight and a dark room.

• Beautiful Batik:

Also in conjunction with the Science and Art Festival, Science Scouts experienced the Malaysian art of Batik printing by using a genuine ‘canting’, hot wax, fabric, and paints. Their creative efforts were then framed for them to bring home.

The Science Scouts dipping their 'canting's into hot wax before applying it on their designs.



Science Scout Arief in deep concentration!



Science Scout Pavithiran cautiously applying wax to his design.



Science Scouts siblings Sara and Nayyim half way through their creations.



Some of the Science Scouts with their masterpieces!

Science and Art Festival at Petrosains!

The Science and Art Festival is a special event at Petrosains which will be held from 23 July 2009 to 26 July 2009. This programme is based on the approach of learning Art and Science through an interdisciplinary perspective where certain phenomena are observed through the lens of both realms.

 

There will be 7 workshops that illustrate the symbolic connection between Science and Art through the hands-on approach for members of the public. They are as follows:

 

1)    Combination of Malaysian Ethnicity and Science in the 'cantik-canting' and Beautiful Batik programme.

2)    Combination of Chemistry and Art in 'The Art and Science of Perfume' programme.

3)    Combination of Geology, History and Art in the 'Earthy Colour Hand Print' programme.

4)    Combination of Mathematics and Malaysian culture in the 'Bracelet Beading for Beginners' programme.

5)    Combination of Photography and Science & Technology in the 'Light Painting' programme.

6)    Combination of Symmetry and Art in the 'Tie & Dye' programme.

We'll be doing Light Painting for our meeting this Saturday but take some time after the meeting or on Sunday perhaps and check out all the other activities with your family!

For the full schedule, do visit http://www.petrosains.com.my/scienceartfestival.html   

Troop 3: Meeting 10

Coordinators: Daniel, Ash, Jehan

Activities:

Walk-a-bout:
The Science Scouts were divided into groups and they took a walk through the centre and learn more about our Mini Shows, Science Shows and experienced some exhibition highlights such as the Hurricane Simulator. This exposure is crucial as Science Scouts are required to conduct their own Mini Shows at the end of the program during Family Day!


Science Scouts watching the exciting 'Liquid Nitrogen' Science Show at Science Station 1!


A group of Science Scouts having a blast at the Hurricane Simulator!


The Grain Pit exhibit requires many Science Scouts to work together to make it work.

It's July!

Congratulations to the June challenge winners! Submissions were really great though do try to write them up in your own words next time. If you do copy and paste, do indicate the source.

Science Scouts who earned an 'Investigating Living Things' badge are Mimi, Liyana, Hannah, Nik Nur Liyana, Khavishini, and Sathayashini. Jai Prakash earns 3 points.

Don't forget our meetings in July! We'll see you on July 11 and don't miss our special meeting on July 25! More details on that later.

For July, the challenge to earn a 'Citizen Science' badge, is you need to be kitchen-sleuths (or food investigators!). Do some research (ask some questions!) and find out the common ingredients to the two dishes below AND tell us, where do these ingredients come from. For example, rice flour is processed from rice grains which come from the paddy plant.

The two dishes are:

- Strawberry chocolate cake (yum!)
- Lontong (Ash's favourite!)