Jack Andraka/ Pancreatic Cancer:
Think Puzzle Explore
- What do you think you about this topic?
- I think that this topic is quite interesting to me and needs to be discussed and talked about more often. I also think that someone talking about this topic and trying to cure it is quite a great way to break the ice about the way people view and think about cancer. I think this because cancer is a very serious and controversial topic and never spoken about, now with someone our age making a difference it shows that everything is possible.
- What questions or puzzles do you have?
- Some questions I have on this topic is:
- – How can it impact young people’s lives
- – Is it pancreatic cancer more common in older people?
- – Is pancreatic cancer more noticeable in older or younger people?
- How can you explore this topic?
- I can explore this topic further by researching how pancreatic cancer can impact people and extend my knowledge to what I know now about Pancreatic cancer, which is that it gives you no appetite at all and gives you an explained loss of stomach fat, I know that there is more beneath the surface that I can explore about this topic.
Thomas Suarez/ App Developer:
P-F-C
- Who might care about this issue? Who are the major stakeholders?
- People who might care about this issue would be up and coming app designers or people who enjoy coding and even teachers teaching stem that might want more foundation on this topic to use for their class. I think people who have an interest in coding would care about this issue because they themselves might want to know how to upload their apps to the app store and from watching this video it would help them pursue their career in coding.
- The major stakeholders of this issue would be people who are proper app designers as they might be losing their job to someone who is might younger and is inexperienced. With more younger people creating apps and doing what Thomas has done, can lead to people who are qualified in IT and have a degree in Software Design to lose their job and to make those jobs harder to get.
Science is for everyone/ Beau Lotto and Amy O’Toole
The 4 ifs
– My community
If we take this issue seriously, more people in The Wilderness School Community will think about Science in a different way and not just identifying it as a boring subject. Doing this will also help science teachers understand how kids learn and how they prefer visuals to learn and for the work to get through to them.
– My nation
We take this issue seriously, more schools around Australia will know how to change the younger curriculum to benefit younger students from ages 8-10. Doing this, helps the students as it puts Science, (something that can seem boring) with something like drawing and identifying things (which is considered fun for their age and attention span). This will really change their perspective on science now as they have connected it something that they find interesting at a young age which will help them like it more in the future.
– The World
If we take this seriously, more young people in the world will be interested in Science from a young age, meaning they may go on to study it at university when they grow up. Also if this issue is taken seriously, it will science easier to learn for young children all of over the world now that it has a fun format and is easier to learn than handing them a giant textbook and expecting them to read the whole thing to understand biology.
– If we don’t do anything what will happen?
If we don’t do anything to benefit this issue then students from ages 8-10 all over the world will be struggling with science. These students will never do well in science if they are struggling from a young age and always needing reassurance. This will cause them slacking off in science and discontinuing it in later years. This is teaching these students nothing and is something very bad to do. If we don’t do anything it will also decrease the number of students studying any type of science at university.