Abstract

This project encourages science students of all disciplines to collaboratively design and formulate their scientific tasks; with a goal of contributing to a certain target of the society. Each team of students will go through the following phases of the project:

• Planning and Preparation Phase: Each team will largely independently design and prepare a scientific event or scientific activities on their own choice for their chosen target recipients. The development process includes multiple learning opportunities within and beyond science. The possible event or activities can be as simple as teaching high school students to do an experiment; creating a virtual mini-lesson on a topic, putting up a small science exhibition; or as complicated as staging a science play, a cosmic ray concert!


• Implementation Phase: Teams will carry out their designed event or activities to the target recipients. In this phase, students may go out and serve the community, or run an event on or beyond campus, or launch their virtual project. Some teams will be carrying out their work in an overseas trip.


• Overseas Mentoring Trip: This is a special type of Implementation, also as an incentive. A few teams, with relevant outreach objective and well planned work, will be given the chance of implementing their designs in an overseas trip, to act as mentors for a group of very brilliant science high school students. The trip includes visits to a number of cutting edge scientific research facilities such as SLAC, CERN, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.


• Reflection Phase: Each team will need to participate in this reflection phase of sharing their key learning and impressive experience in the project.