Creative Invention Activity provides young children with practical experiences in carrying on the jasmine rice screening from other rice breeds. Since carbohydrate structure of each rice breed is different, young children have the opportunity to use the Iodine and alkaline salt digestion techniques to differentiate jasmine rice from others. Young children divide each rice grain into two parts and carry on two screening techniques:
The first technique is to drop Iodine into the first half of each rice grain. If such rice is the jasmine rice, its color will be changed to brown. For other rice breeds, their colors will be changed to dark blue.
In the second technique, young children use the second half of each grain for alkaline salt digestion testing technique. The grain with easy digestion with alkaline salt is the jasmine rice. Of course, it’s easy to cook. Those which are harder to cook are other rice breeds.
Then, young children have the opportunity to calculate the percentage of jasmine rice from other rice breeds with totally 24 rice grain samples.
These screening techniques are used practically to solve major problems in Thai rice exports. Then, at 4.00 p.m. all 230 campers have the chance to transplant paddy sprouts in the field. This activity brings joy to children and enables them to realize the value of rice they consume daily. Then, each team members will be trained how to cook the traditional Thai dessert called “Fried Banana and Coconut or Khao Mao Tod”.
In Creative Digital Project, children express their imagination and creative ideas by writing their Blogs. They share their stories from imagination. They also work as a team to compete in games which challenge their problem-solving and deliberation to bring success and excitement.
Games and Recreational activities held every night are aimed at teaching camp participants on problem solving, teamwork and the skills of collaboration. These are outdoor games, camp fire, classroom-based activities and newly designed activities to bring excitement to these young people.
On Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Young Genius Engineers Activity is hosted in the Crystal Brain Camp Kasetsart-Seagate every year. However, each year’s activity concept differs from each other in order to offer more challenges to campers. In this year, young children will learn “How to Fight with Earthquakes” with the use of engineering rules and techniques as follows:-.
1. For practical reasons, lecturers group all young children into 10 members per team. Each team is assigned to build mini homes. For example, young children use straws as stakes of their homes. They use the dried sticky rice sheets normally served with Vietnamese food as their walls and use thread as the steel bars.
2. Resource, labor hours and home development period is limited according to the engineering study concepts.
3. Young children are assigned to build the two-story homes with 20 cm. length x 20 cm. width and 20 cm. height. There is no limitation on shape of each home.
4. Young children learn more about mini homes construction techniques from video presentation such as:-
- The iron bar fastening technique bending around the bridges and home stakes before pouring concrete
- Locating the buildings or homes on springs and make them movable according to the earthquake.
- With the skate shoes foundation technique, the home base is like the cup and limit homes movements within these cups.
- The steel pendulum that serves as a tuned mass damper at the Taipei 101 Tower in Taiwan is designed to withstand the typhoon winds and earthquake tremors.
5. When all mini earthquakes-proofed homes are complete. They enter into two contests including the largest utilization space and the greatest design to withstand earthquakes.
For more information, please contact:
Miss Kwanjit Sudsawad
Senior Manager of Corporate Communications,Seagate Technology (Thailand) Limited
Tel. (662) 715-2919, email : [email protected]