协和万源初中部于4月9日举办了一年一度的科学展。 本次科学展的主题是“创意使生活更好”。 本次参加作品展出的大多是七年级的学生，但全校的师生都可以到现场进行参观和体验，并且每一个参观者都会得到一张选票，用以选出最吸引他们的作品。 前来参观的师生都对学生的作品留下了深刻的印象，感受到了“创意使生活更好”的魅力，让我们一起来看看学生的设计创作过程吧！
The middle school of SUIS Wan yuan held the annual Science Fair on April 9th. The main theme of this science fair is solving a life-related problem using creative ideas. Students, mostly from 7th graders, took part in this event and all students and teachers from middle school are voting to decide the best ideas among them. All the visitors are quite impressed by the students’ innovative ideas and the final products they have made do seem to make our life better! Let’s go take a look!
每个小组的项目从前期的讨论和思考到后来的设计与创作都是在DT课程上完成的。在DT课上学生们可以运用所学的科学、数学等知识做出他们喜欢的作品，可以利用3D打印机，将他们脑海中想象的画面变成现实。
This free science project of each group took them several weeks to get done. And it was mostly completed in our DT (design & technology) Class. Here are some of the moments in the DT classes. Students are really engaged and enjoying making crafts and learning how to do 3D print and bring their new ideas to life.
学生们想要完成这个“自由”项目，要经历以下几个过程：首先他们要选择合适的对象组建一个团队（在这个过程中就可以培养他们的团队协作能力），接着小组成员需要一起讨论分享彼此的想法和创意，然后还需要画图来构建模型并进行制作，制作完成后还需要进行后期的测试，有的可能还要重新设计再改进，最后才能得到一个完美的作品。
The 7th graders started this free designing project from scratch. They first have to decide who they want to work with (building up their teamwork skills), and then they need to brainstorm creative ideas, build the prototypes, test and redesign and finally the production according to this following process.
我们的学生在本次科学展中提出了各种新想法。 不但有趣，创意十足，而且非常贴合本次科学展的主题“创意使生活更好”。
Our students came up with various new ideas during this competition. And some of these ideas are fun, creative, and most importantly fit well with the main theme of this project which is to make our life better by solving a small problem in our daily life encounters.
有很多展品是真的非常有趣并且能够轻松解决生活中所遇到的问题。哈哈…. 好吧，我真的很想拥有这么一个及脚踝的雨伞，它肯定能让我在暴雨的时候在避免被淋湿的同时引人注目。一个可以让你在想偷懒在家躺一天的懒人装置，里面应有尽有，伸手即可得到（枕头，Ipad，食物，水等……），一个利用图像识别原理的宠物自动喂食机，这样再也不用担心在出远门时，家里的宠物会饿坏了，真的是太棒了！
There are quite a lot pretty fun designs that can really make our life a bit easier ha ha…. Well, I’d really love to have such a huge umbrella and it definitely catches eyeballs wearing it in a heavy rainy day. And, then here is the thing for whenever you are having a long day and just want to lay down and have some rest. It’d be really nice to have a stand with all things you need (pillow, Ipad, food, water etc..).
有时候，我们因为太忙碌而忽视了生活，所以也不太愿意花时间来思考解决生活中那些的麻烦的锁事。 科学展给我们的师生提供了一个很好的契机，来感受创造和科学的魅力，做生活的有心人，小改变，大不同！
Sometime, We tend to ignore the small annoying things in our lives because we are too busy to slow things down a bit, and try to just think how we might take just one minute to improve and fix these little troubles that are constantly upset us. The science fair offers a great opportunity not only to our students, but all staff of SUIS as well, to think creatively and make seemingly small actions that can bring huge effects to make our life easier and better!
