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Wed, 05/13/2009 - 09:36
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Eastern Star skyrocketes to top secondary school in Vientiane
(KPL) Four teenage students, their ages ranging from 12 to 15 of Eastern Star Bilingual School in Vientiane, a Turkish-owned and operated educational facility, scored two stunning successes in two international school science project competitions in Turkey and USA, recently.
In doing so, this little known school, nestling among the trees and a lake teeming with fish in Nongbon, skyrocketed and ratcheted itself to capture the pole position of the Vientiane secondary schools informal and unofficial pecking order.
For the I-SWEEP competition in Houston, Texas, USA, the school’s team of two, Phetnary Savannarath and Thipphaohone Naphaivong won the fourth place and in securing this high placing they had beaten most of the competitors from 60 countries and 40 states of USA and the competitors submitted a total of 650 projects.
The other duo, Pathummaly Phommachanh and Phitthannusone Ounaphom competed in the Dreamline competition in Turkey and they won the Bronze medal or third place against stiff competition from science projects from 23 countries and 18 cities in Turkey. The secret of their successes lies in the articulation, design, manufacture and operation of solar panels that can provide energy, storage of energy and which can function as window curtains.
The four students came up with the idea that instead of placing solar panels on the roofs of houses, they could design them to be like window curtains, place them on windows to catch the sun and at the same time the curtains not only generate energy to light up the house
but they can also store energy – a tri-function device.
The Turkish team competed on the design of the system and the USA team’s entry was on operating and designing the device.
According to the four budding young scientists the thinking, trial efforts, design, building and operations of the gadget took a toll on their time, so much so that they agonized over it, had many sleepless nights and in the process shed buckets of tears. The KPL News reporter asked the principal, Mr Cuma Ali Efeyik whether his school can sustain such a pole position and he said he has an ace card.
“We are building a high-tech school with smart classrooms that can provide cutting-edge and state of the art facilities for students to carry out any kind of academic study, but with emphasis on group science project,” said Mr Ali.
When it is operational and that will be in the near future, this school., Mr Ali claimed, would be in a position to beat any school in Laos in terms of study facilities and he added that its teachers would be nurturing young minds to achieve excellence.
Lao parents can enroll their offspring in this school as long as they have deep pockets as its one-year fee for its secondary section is USD 2,000.
In doing so, this little known school, nestling among the trees and a lake teeming with fish in Nongbon, skyrocketed and ratcheted itself to capture the pole position of the Vientiane secondary schools informal and unofficial pecking order.
For the I-SWEEP competition in Houston, Texas, USA, the school’s team of two, Phetnary Savannarath and Thipphaohone Naphaivong won the fourth place and in securing this high placing they had beaten most of the competitors from 60 countries and 40 states of USA and the competitors submitted a total of 650 projects.
The other duo, Pathummaly Phommachanh and Phitthannusone Ounaphom competed in the Dreamline competition in Turkey and they won the Bronze medal or third place against stiff competition from science projects from 23 countries and 18 cities in Turkey. The secret of their successes lies in the articulation, design, manufacture and operation of solar panels that can provide energy, storage of energy and which can function as window curtains.
The four students came up with the idea that instead of placing solar panels on the roofs of houses, they could design them to be like window curtains, place them on windows to catch the sun and at the same time the curtains not only generate energy to light up the house
but they can also store energy – a tri-function device.
The Turkish team competed on the design of the system and the USA team’s entry was on operating and designing the device.
According to the four budding young scientists the thinking, trial efforts, design, building and operations of the gadget took a toll on their time, so much so that they agonized over it, had many sleepless nights and in the process shed buckets of tears. The KPL News reporter asked the principal, Mr Cuma Ali Efeyik whether his school can sustain such a pole position and he said he has an ace card.
“We are building a high-tech school with smart classrooms that can provide cutting-edge and state of the art facilities for students to carry out any kind of academic study, but with emphasis on group science project,” said Mr Ali.
When it is operational and that will be in the near future, this school., Mr Ali claimed, would be in a position to beat any school in Laos in terms of study facilities and he added that its teachers would be nurturing young minds to achieve excellence.
Lao parents can enroll their offspring in this school as long as they have deep pockets as its one-year fee for its secondary section is USD 2,000.
