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How did your activities
and research for this CyberFair Project support standards,
required coursework and curriculum standards?
1.Language
(Learning) Area:
We learned how to design the questionnaire, how to ask the
questions, and how to train our speaking in the process of
doing the research project. After the visit to the school,
we also needed to deal with a lot of records and write the
reports.
2.Mathematic (Learning) Area:
Our main topic is knowing about Taiwan Power company.
Therefore, we designed the poster to promote the power
safety and the power saving tips. We investigated the
concepts and the habits of the visitors by questionnaire. We
collected and calculated all questionnaire by Excel, and the
result would be presented by figures.
3.Science and Technology (Learning)
Area:
We visited different power plants and recognized the
principles of different power generation methods. To protect
the environment is more important than power generation
because no matter the nuclear power or thermal power needs
amount of water. We would like to know whether water
discharged from nuclear power plants will affect marine
ecology, and whether the thermal power plants lead to the
air pollution. In addition, we also found the possible
environmental impacts of the wind power generation which is
one of green energy. We even knew how to use hi-tech
products to record a whole research content totally.
4.Integrative Activities (Learning)
Area:
Teamwork is a key to success. Some are good at drawing, some
are good at writing in the group. The teacher would
distribute to different workload according to everyone’s
advantages to make everything easier and smoother.
5.Social Studies (Learning) Area:
We read a lot of information about the development of
Taiwan's electric power industry when visiting Taipower
Exhibit Center in Northern Taiwan. Another consideration is
the geographical factor when selecting the site for various
power plants, such as nuclear power plants, which require
seawater cooling, so they are built along the sea. Thermal
power plants require fuel and ports to be shipped in, so
they are also built on the seashore. Hydroelectric power
plants are usually in the mountains because of the high and
low drop to build dams. At last, people can express various
opinions on the construction of power plants by the
referendum and formulate laws to develop the electricity
business in Taiwan.
6.Arts and Humanities (Learning)
Area:
There are many public artworks inside and outside the
Taipower Building. The small windmill that turns during the
day can make the night street art work shine. In order to
beautify the power plant landscape, the thermal power plant
has a painted chimney, and lily is also integrated into the
power plant's mark. It also produces the charactic cultural
and creative products like coasters are made of fly ash from
the thermal power plant to achieve trash for treasure.
7.Environmental Education
(Learning) Area:
Through this event, we realized that Taiwan's energy is so
lacking, and fuel depends on imports. In order to generate
electricity, Taipower has done some things that people are
worried about, such as building a thermal power plant and
using nuclear energy, so the government strictly monitors
the safety of nuclear power plants and nuclear waste, and
monitors the air quality. The government also sets laws to
reduce environmental pollution and develop green energy.
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In what ways did you act
as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair
project both on-line and in person.
Taiwan
needs to face the challenge of energy transformation and the
situation of low power supply. Everyone likes to enjoy the
convenience of electricity, but everyone often ignores the
safety of electricity and the power saving. Therefore, we
searched a lot of data related to energy and electricity to
learn more about Taiwan Power company by using school club
activity time. We promoted how to save power and introduced
the electricity safety knowledge to everyone during School
Anniversary. In addition to designing posters, we also set
up a petition to save energy, and hoped more people would
practice the concept of saving electricity. In order to know
about Taiwan Power company, we arranged many visits,
experience events, and interviews to understand their works
and challenges deeply. We would post the results of
interview on the website by connecting the school link to
make the public know why they could enjoy a convenient power
supply because of the effort from a group of people in
silence.
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School
Assistance and Cooperation
The
school supported us a lot. We did not only make the website
in the computer room the school offers, but also collected
every material by using many hard equipment such as digital
cameras, recorders, and computers. There were some
technology problems, for example, image processing,
recording file editing, web search data, web page creation,
and questionnaire design, etc. The teachers also arranged
some courses to make us be in progress. The school helped us
to other far places like Taipower North Exhibition Hall,
nuclear power plants, and thermal power plants by school
bus, so that we can complete the visits more efficiently.
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How did your project
involve other members of your community as helpers and
volunteers?
We
set up the stand and designed the poster of electricity
safety and power saving for promoting how to practice the
concept of saving power in daily life on school anniversary.
A lot of teachers, students and visitors came to our stand
and did the questionnaire. We introduced how to use the home
appliances safely.
Moreover, Taipower staffs were so friendly to explain
everything and answer any kind of question for us in
patience when we visited there. Even if we couldn’t get to
the engineer on site, they answered our questions by e-mail
in order to make us completely understand what they have
done for Taiwanese daily life and concerned about Taiwan
energy development. With their support and encouragement, we
only expect everyone remembers to save power every moment.
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What has been or will be the impact of
your project on your community?
We
knew nothing about Taiwan’s energy before doing this
research. However, we finally had common knowledge about
Taiwan's current power generation methods, power supply
situation, and household electricity safety and energy
conservation after collecting, sorting out information and
visiting those power-related units. We understood that there
are three fuels of thermal power generation which are coal,
oil and natural gas. Although Taiwan's nuclear power plants
have many safety measures to avoid the earthquake and
tsunami crisis, even they haven’t been used anymore, it must
be very cautious to process the nuclear waste. Moreover,
everyone is counting on the green energy development of wind
power generation, but the unstable generation of renewable
energy is a huge challenge so far. The more we know, the
more important thing we think is to save electricity because
electricity is really hard to come by!
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What information tools and technologies
did you use to complete your CyberFair project?
Our
school provide almost all of the tools we need for this
project, like computers, a digital camera, a video recorder,
a printer, a scanner, etc. Computers and the internet are
the most valuable tools for us because we used these tools
and authorized software to organize documents and films and
make the web page for our project. We also used smartphones
to make appointments with interviewees and contact with tour
guides and Beitou residents. In addition, the digital camera
and the video recorder are quite useful because they
captured valuable moments of the investigation.
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Intellectual Property
Rights
1.Photos and images used
on this project webpage are either taken or drawn by team members.
2.The content of the project is collected and written by team members.
3.The use of someone else's work has been cited sources or authorized.
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Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises
We
were very impressed by the visit of the smart grid display in Taipower
Building. In the smart home display, the home appliances such as air
conditioners, fans, lights, can be controlled by the user’s smartphone.
If the user forgets to turn off the lights or the air-con when he is
out, he can control it even many miles far away from home. It’s amazing!
The smart meter can transmit the power usage status of the home to the
user's mobile phone in time, which can be compared with the previous
power consumption. It will remind us to save electricity if we use it
too much.
Another exhibition was amazing, too. We could experience the work of the
power dispatcher by AR technology. We never knew the stable power supply
needed many people to work behind. At the last visit, we went to
Taipower maintenance training center in Xinbeitou. We watched the
maintenance staff climb up to the top of electric pole and down. We
realized the fear of height until it was our turn to climb up the
electric poles. The Taipower personnel must not only overcome the
height, but also carry out high-risk maintenance work. They really got
our respect. Furthermore, we should appreciate their hard work for
bringing the convenience of electricity life.
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