Featured Students
OOS Students find practical
solutions to environmental problems
T
each UAE Magazine met a few
of the students at Our Own
English Speaking School Sharjah
(OOS) at the GEMS Maker Day,
which was held in February 2016. We
were impressed with the manner in
which the three young ladies, Maryann
Boniface, Saniah Abdul Rahman and
Sofia Mohammed Rahman, eloquently
expounded on their science project,
which they created to address the
problem of effectively cleaning oil spills
from the ocean with minimum damage
to the sea floor. Below, they share with
us their love for science and what they
hope their project will accomplish.
Maryann Boniface
Sofia Rahman
Grade 12
Grade 11
What do you enjoy most about
science?
Saniah Abdul Rahman
Grade 9
What do you enjoy most about
science?
What I like most about science is that
it teaches me about the diversity
of life forms, our environment,
it’s mechanisms and how these
mechanisms can be used to come up
with creative ideas. Science takes me
to a whole new level of imagination,
creativity and lots more.
What impact would you like your
project to have?
I would like the project to be of great
impact in securing a safer and better
future for us by giving a helping hand
to our beautiful planet.
What do you do for fun?
I like to take strolls and observe the
beautiful sceneries that nature offers
us; I also like to listen to music.
I enjoy how enlightened you can become
with science. It has something for every
type of learner. Whether it is theoretical
or experimental. My love for science
is rooted in the way that I was taught
science at school. I love the fact that
science allows you to do things that can
potentially make a huge difference. One
of the things that I find interesting about
science is the fact that today’s science or
today’s truth may be found to be false
tomorrow. I think we should be driven
by this concept to question everything
about the science we know now to seek
a better form of science for tomorrow.
What impact would you like your
project to have?
We would want our project to raise more
awareness about oil spills and effective
solutions for it. We want to directly affect
and improve the situation of oil spills
and we want to show that some of the
greatest of problems can be solved with
simple, yet highly effective solutions.
With our prototype based on simple
scientific concepts, we wish to minimize
the harmful after effects of conventional
oil spill control methods, by using
organic and environmentally friendly
concepts and methods.
What do you do for fun?
I love listening to music and I also enjoy
watching movies. It’s not surprising that
my favourite genres are sci-fi based.
Apart from that I enjoy drawing and
doodling during my free time.
What do you enjoy most about
science?
I’m fascinated by the fact that science
is like a vast ocean where there are
millions of things yet to be discovered
and experimented. At my school, Our
Own English High School Sharjah,
our principal, parents, teachers and
guardians have all played a great role
in granting us access to this ‘ocean’ of
science and helping us to master the
art of science. What I like most about
science are the mysteries that unravel,
as we explore it and the sense of
eagerness that it creates. It makes me
feel like I’m already a scientist.
What impact would you like your
project to have?
I would like this project to be a part
of the solution to the environmental
problem that resulted from our lack
of focus in taking better care of
our oceans and the environment in
general. Our inaction, and in some
cases, foolish and deliberate acts have
led us today to an ailing planet i.e.
the earth. I hope that this project will
influence and persuade others to focus
more on how we can take much better
care of earth.
What do you do for fun?
I enjoy the challenges that I undertake
in
discovering,
inventing
and
innovating. Apart from that I enjoy
baking and embroidery.
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