Trailblazing Singapore students win major prize in Paris

SINGAPORE ~ A team of students from Singapore has won a major international prize for developing a computer software that makes for a cleaner environment.
Calling themselves the Trailblazers, the students developed a program called Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) and entered it in the Imagine Cup Embedded Development competition.
Team members Pinto James Dominic, Shi Ben [...]

Korean students make trees talk

software program that can take measurements of the electrical activity inside a tree and interpret the information against different criteria

Schools climate-change competition launched

 

BANGKOK ~ Following a highly successful outcome last year, the Young Thai Science Journalist Competition 2008 has just been launched by its co-organisers,  the British Council (BC), the National Science Museum and the Nation Junior Magazine.
Upper secondary school students across Thailand are being encouraged to take part in the competition by working in teams to [...]

More schools take up British Council eco challenge

SOME 257 secondary schools across Thailand have registered for the Schools Ecological Footprint Challenge 2008, the project organiser said in a statement issued on Thursday. The British Council, who are running the competition for the second year, said the total is 42 per cent up on last year and shows that interest in the environment is gathering [...]