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phones and from there extracted 186kg of gold, diameter of microplastics?
1324kg of silver, 66220kg of copper and 66kg of The final question required the audience to Magical
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palladium. illustrate their vision of how the future planet Earth
would look like. After 5 minutes of illustration,
Beginnings:
Next, a Conservation International the speakers picked out a couple of extraordinary B e ginnin g s:
documentary film entitled “Nature is Speaking” illustrations, and asked the illustrators to explain
was screened. Narrated by water, sky and nature the meanings behind them.
respectively, the film was an epitome of phenomenal
photography and expressive description. Nature One such illustration was of a rocket leaving Kuen Cheng Debate Club Welcoming Party
was portrayed in its intimidating yet awe-inspiring a crossed planet Earth. The illustrator explained On the 16th of April, Kuen Cheng High School’s Debate Club hosted a welcoming party to
grandeur, chilling the audience to the bones with that he drew inspiration from science fiction celebrate the arrival of new members. With approximately 45 new members, the event committee was
the accompanying majestic soundtrack. Waves movies where humans leave Earth in search of sure to prepare entertaining games and gifts for them. The event was Harry Potter themed.
crashed, thunder boomed and nature flourished another inhabitable planet once Earth becomes
throughout the documentary film, allowing the the opposite. Another such illustration consisted The welcoming party started at 8:00 p.m. with the Club President, Cheam Wen Han, as the host.
audience to witness the tremendous power of of three colours: blue for rising seas, red for burnt He first welcomed the new members before the Event Coordinators introduced a short ice-breaking
nature. The film emphasised a central message: forests, black for the absence of humans. game. The ice-breaking game was simple. A player would have to choose 4 numbers from 1 to 20, and
“Nature doesn’t need people. People need nature.” they would have to use the words listed under those numbers to create a short story. Both English and
After the audience had written their hopes Chinese words were given to both sides of the club.
Speaker Chuan proceeded to recite an for planet Earth on the Padlet platform, the
excerpt from a film entitled “A Letter from Year Teacher-advisor of the Environmental Society, There were 4 rounds each with some players managing to come up with amusing stories. A short
2070”, and shared a quote by William Ruckelshaus: Miss Foo, wrapped up the webinar by commenting welcoming speech by the teacher-in-charge was given straight after. Then, Wen Han proceeded with
“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we on the highly interesting content that was shared some minor announcements regarding the 保姆制度 “Apprenticeship System” where club members
control our appetites.” by both speakers. She proceeded to remark that would be put into groups with a senior member to guide them throughout the year. Wen Han also
Kuen Cheng High School is outstanding in the mentioned the activities that would be held for the club this year along with a small reminder to hand-
Next came a quiz on Quizizz platform which sense that the School Board heavily promotes in the club fees.
asked questions regarding the aforementioned environmental preservation through multitudes
information presented. The questions came in of events throughout the year, not to mention the
objective and subjective forms, the likes of which systematic handling of rubbish within the school
were: What are your thoughts after watching the compound. According to her, everyone has a part
documentary? What is the date of Earth Day? to play in this environmental endeavour, starting Club Announcements
How do we reuse an old rubber tyre? What is the from students, to parents, and finally to society.
Thereafter, the Disciplinarians of the Club gave a short announcement regarding the club’s
general rules. The rules consisted of 5 sections, namely Respect, Punctuality, Activeness, Discipline &
Violations. Members were reminded to always adhere to the rules of the Club before proceeding with
the rest of the event.
Following up, the Event Coordinators ushered club members into their respective groups for a
game session. There were 10 groups in total, each with a game host to lead them in the 5 games that
they would be playing. The games were chosen in random sequences. One of the games was a Word
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