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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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