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- A.Craig Models of Drug Resistance
NASA scientist Dr. Lin Chambers has just n Chambers has just - A.Adam
con irmed our irst video conference Ajarn Adam's M6 science class was recently
of the year for Friday, July 18th during treated to a guest speaker from Mahidol University.
period 1 with all of our M1 students. The
video conference will also include some Wirichada Pan-ngum, Ph.D., works in the Mahidol-
of our M3 students giving a presentation Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU)
about tourist attractions in Thailand. and specializes in mathematical modeling of
Teachers are of course welcome to attend. disease transmission and treatment. Much of her
current work is associated with malaria in many
Our NASA Student Cloud Observation of the surrounding ASEAN nations. During her
Online Project (SCOOL) was such a seminar, she discussed methods of determining
success last year that it has been expanded pathogen resistance in various disease models.
to include all of our M1 students this Much of this information ties in to the current
year. Each classroom is responsible for topics the students are learning in some of their
one satellite, and the students have been M6 classes.
making daily weather observations at the
same time their satellite is over Bangkok. Dr. Pan-ngum also gave our students some insight
Their data is then uploaded to NASA and into what is involved in doing scienti ic research
used to validate the satellite data set. as a career option. She explained the importance
of teamwork and collaboration as a basis of most
This project provides the students with scienti ic research. She encouraged our students
a unique opportunity to combine their to work on these skills now and develop them
academic and scienti ic skills while over time. Our students thoroughly enjoyed the
engaging with a signi icant international seminar and asked several insightful questions
research project. concerning her rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrresearcch and
concerning her research and life as a scientist.
For more information please visit the Weather
Station Club Moodle page under 'Activities and
Clubs' or the NASA SCOOL Project homepage New Lab Equipment!
at:http://scool.larc.nasa.gov/
- A.Mike
Current weather observations from our EPTS Just in time for the new semester, our two science labs received more than
weather station can be found 400,000 baht in new science equipment. Some of the main equipment included
at:http://www.weatherlink.com/user a spectrophotometer, spectrometers, several new microscopes and many pieces
/epts/index.php?view=main&headers of physics equipment. This new equipment will enable our students to not only
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better understand their current topics but will also allow them to perform more
advanced research in the coming years. Additionally, this will better prepare them
http://www.wunderground.com/
personal-weather-station/dashboard? for a future in university science courses. Expect some fun and exciting research s. p
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The PDS Jazz Club is a creative platform for student musicians to learn to express s
themselves through musical improvisation and to learn the rich heritage of the e
jazz idiom. For the past nine years Aj. Kyle has conducted the club's activities, s, PDS
which have included after school Jazz Club; M.1, M.4, and M.5 Jazz Music elective ve
subjects; PDS Jazz Workshop with Grammy Award winning jazz legend Ernie Watts; ts;
series of CD productions based on the studio recordings for which the students act Jazz Club
an annual jazz digital recording project in a professional recording studio; and a

as musicians, photographers, CD cover designers, and public relations of icers. On - A.Kyle
March 19th 2014 Aj. Kyle took his M.4 and M.5 Jazz Bands once again to Vintage
Studio for a recording, and the CD production has inished just in time for the irst
parents' and teachers' meeting of the 2014 academic year. Please visit the booth at
the rear of the auditorium. Thank you for your support.

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