1st White Coats on Every Kid

     The GIN club - White Coats on Every Kid held its first activity last October 5, 2013. Like all other activities, it all started out with planning. During the planning, all of the members, including myself, had a hard time deciding on what our first activity would be. Finally, we decided to teach 'surface tension' to children with different set of activities.

     As the children arrived, we started by introducing an ice breaker for them to feel comfortable with us. After that, we were divided into groups and I was grouped with Jay Heo, one of my classmate and 4 lower school boys. Our first activity was to balance a paper clip on the water to observe surface tension and breaking it through putting a drop of liquid soap. I think this activity went well because they were able to build a concept on what surface tension was. We felt proud that one of the students were able to explain once again to his friends about what surface tension was. The second activity was to count number of the droplets of water that could stand on a coin without overflowing and to compare it to the number of droplets of soap water that could stand on a coin without overflowing. I really felt happy as they competed to get more droplets on it and tried to listen to our explanation for it.

     I believe that the most interesting and exciting part for the children was the last activity. We prepared a bubble maker beforehand for them to try and experiment on it. As expected, they really enjoyed the activity. They were also amazed how there could be colors on the bubbles as we prepared different food coloring for them to experiment on.
     By seeing the smiles on the faces of the children, I really felt happy that I have took part in the activity. I felt good sharing a portion of my knowledge. I think this activity was a good source for me to go over the simple and basic things that I may also have took for granted in learning science. This activity also gave me the chance to feel privileged to be able to study in a school with variety of laboratory equipment and materials that I could use to enhance my knowledge. I also felt that it is really fulfilling to share my time and knowledge to others by cooperating with friends. It was really a good opportunity for me to step closer to one of the global issues which is about lack of approaches of children to education.