Dunraven goes to China
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Six Dunraven students from Years 8 and 9 are travelling to Shanghai, China on Friday 9 July, returning on 18 July, where they will be taking part in the Shanghai International Youth Science and Technology Expo. They are going to meet 300 other students from 17 countries around the world. Only two UK schools are participating, and we are one of them! Students also get the opportunity to visit and explore Shanghai.
The students - Jack, Ali, Zubair, Sian, Thomas and Cheyanne - will be presenting a bio-organic wall which they have created as part of the Science and Engineering Club. You can read about the science STEM club here.
The whole project is funded by the Confucius institute and the visit will be accompanied by Ms Birbalsingh and Dr Crentsil.
The party plan to write a daily blog to report back.
The 2010 Shanghai International Youth Science and Technology Expo is part of the Shanghai World Expo. Their motto is "Better City, Better Life". Our science project is an invention which is unique, economical and sustainable and helps to create a healthy city by absorbing harmful CO2. It is a Portable Bio-Organic Wall: a wall which can capture and help to reduce CO2 emissions. We also have an interactive piece called Causation, which shows how CO2's production/reduction is affected by everyday objects or processes which we take for granted.
Dr Crentsil believes that The Dunraven School Portable Bio wall is the world's first. It also has the added effect of reducing reliance on air conditioning and this in turn further reduces the output of CO2 emissions. Sustainability is the way of the future.