PYPx 2023 by Ben (Benjamin) CHARPENTIER

2023-05-26 07:21:30 UTC

Ronnie, Jake, and Kayla have been taking alot of effort into their creative expression and have been working hard. They have also been researching child well being and have seen that a lot of children need help. Jake Ronnie and Kayla also worked hard on their action

30ronniet1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:22:13 UTC

Tomas and Brian’s photo

30tomash1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:23:05 UTC

Thats the docent thingy

Saule, Ruby and Maples PYPx photo

30sauleco1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:24:11 UTC

PYPX. Conner has been looking into lots of resources for his inquiry.So what Conner has been inquiring about is overfishing.So what Conner been doing for his inquiry is a kahoot.

30connerh — 2023-05-26 07:24:50 UTC

30sophiar1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:26:00 UTC

Sophia has been inquiring into bullying.Sophia has been researching bullying and different types of bullying and how bystanders can help students at Nist stand up for themselves.Sophia’s creative expression is a video game to help kids stand up for themselves Sophia’s action is creating a video to show kids what bullying is like.

30juheonn1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:26:05 UTC

in PYPx Junoh and Juheon have been working on animal testing and animal learning. We find out why they use animals for learning and how can we advocate for tested animals. We are really interested about how they are tested, how students are learning and why they do animal testing.

2023-05-26 07:27:33 UTC

Noah, Vivaan and there creative expression was a model and an animation Caviar are doing Khlong pollution under water and how animals are affected by it. The reason they chose this topic is because they wanted to save the creatures and the ocean so all living organisms can live safely in the water
The action for this group is making sure children and adults now about this problem and how to solve it
Their creative expression is a 3d model

30caviars1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:27:41 UTC

Caviar, vivaan, and noah researched about khlong pollution in Bangkok and how can the local community around it reduce the pollution. They wanted to know how the fish and people around the khlongs are affected by the dirty water and the bad smell. They decided to make a 3D structure along with an game they coded

Darsh, Noah and Anurak’s photo

2023-05-26 07:27:50 UTC

Darsh, Noah & Anurak were interested in cyberbullying so they inquired into it. They researched where and how NISTIES get cyberbullied and how we could stop it. The action they took was that they are sending out surveys across NIST to help those that were cyberbullied. They also made a game in scratch and published it.

Aclaire,Alice and Bua

30aclairec1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:28:25 UTC

Alice, Bua and I (Aclaire) has been inquiring about Plastic waste in Thailand and how animals are dying because of plastic. We researched about how much plastic there is in the world and how it affects life? Our expression piece is a painting in the ocean with sea animals showing that sea animals are surrounded by plastic even though they are in the ocean.

Luca, Mario and Jasons photo and paragraph.

30lucan — 2023-05-26 07:28:55 UTC

Mario, Jason and I were interested in food waste and decided to inquire into it. We researched information about things like ways to reuse wasted food. We then made a pamphlet, a video and a diagram to show that we cared about food waste.

Marijuana Intake In Bangkok

30chloew1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:29:17 UTC

We inquired Into Marijuana Consumption in Thailand and how to control Marijuana intake for medicinal purposes only. We reacherched into the effects, why people consume it and how they could educate NIST parents on the topic. We decided to take action by performing a comedy/educational speech to educate parents that come to the PYPX.

Sena’s & Minny’s PYPx project about stray dogs in BKK.

30senah1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:30:04 UTC

We have been inquiring into stray dogs in Bangkok. We have been researching on how to decrease the amount of stray dogs in Bangkok

We took action by making a sculpture explaining how hard a life of a stray dog can be, an information board about neutering & teaching activities about food and rabies vaccine.

Plastic Waste At NIST

30olivias1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:30:50 UTC

Olivia and Emma learned that plastic waste is a really big problem, and they were interested, so they chose ‘Plastic Waste At NIST’ for their PYPx issue.

They were looking for reasons that people use too much single -use plastic, and they thought about how they can tell people about less plastic and recycle.

Their action expression is they made useful things to say to recycle, and they made stickers, bookmarks and pockets. Also they printed out some photos to show how serious it is.

solobobo0906 — 2023-05-26 07:30:53 UTC

BoBo and Jun were intrigued about poverty and researched about poverty in Thailand. They wanted to know how to reduce poverty in Thailand and help people. They have made a booklet to give out that has a website to donate to and they made a video explaining about poverty, they also made a little house with a toy living in poverty.

Stray Cats in Thailand

30annak1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:31:08 UTC

Anna, Charlie and Toya really cared about the issue of stray cats in Thailand and how to reduce the amount of stray cats in the country, so they created an exhibition expressing their feelings about the issue. How they took action is they made bracelets and cookies and sold them to make money and gave the donation to PAWS Bangkok, and volunteered but they did not accept volunteers yet. So they made a video that shows all the actions they took.

Jamie and Gut’s PYPx project about green energy.

30gutp1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:31:55 UTC

Jamie and Gut inquired into green energy and how to reduce carbon emissions to stop climate change. They wanted to find out about solar panels and NISTs plan to make the campus more sustainable. They are taking action by raising awareness through cool diagrams, fun quizzes, colorful posters and best of all their amazing talking.

2023-05-26 07:32:29 UTC

In PYPX we have been heavily researching Plastic pollution in the ocean. We were mostly focusing on the types of plastic and how dangerous they are but we also added in a bit of what animals/areas are impacted. In our final project we made a mini simulation of picking up different types of plastic on the floor and sorting them into different bins.

Miu, Mona & Cheya

30monac1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:32:38 UTC

Mona, Miu and Cheya were interested in gender equality so they inquired into gender neutral uniforms in NIST. They researched how non-binary students feel about the uniform and how they can help the students that are affected by the binary uniforms. For their action they made bookmarks, bracelets and a uniform proposal to spread awareness about non-binary inclusion.

BB Inquired into cyberbullying and how it happens.BB researched into how cyber bullying happensBB took action by making a scratch game about bullying racism and cyberbullying.

2023-05-26 07:33:55 UTC

2023-05-26 07:34:34 UTC

Bridget wanted to spread awareness about where clothes go after they have been thrown out.
Bridget took action by collecting fabric from clothes that neighbors no longer wanted to wear. And she made a sculpture out of the fabric for her expression piece.

Mangrove Deforestation:) (Anton & Teyl)

2023-05-26 07:36:40 UTC

Teyl & I really care about animals and their habitats so they chose to inquire about Mangroves! We wanted to learn more about mangrove deforestation, reforestation and the benefits mangroves have on the environment. We decided to spread awareness and plant mangroves to take action!

30felixb1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:39:43 UTC

We inquired about Tiger Poaching in Thailand and raised awareness because no one knows a lot about it.
We researched Tiger poaching and how it is affecting the Food Chain. We made action by making posters to stop buying tiger products.

Joony and Andrew’s PYPx

joonylou1 — 2023-05-26 07:39:55 UTC

Amal’s PYPx

amallllllll_cool_yay1 — 2023-05-26 07:39:57 UTC

I did forced child labor for my PYPx. I wanted to find out what it was and how it affected children’s everyday lives. It falls under the category of human rights and inequalities. I had been researching what it is and how it happens within the Thai/Bangkok community. My expression is a painting and my action is a poster I made and sometimes shows on the TVs in the cafeteria!

Poverty in Bangkok

2023-05-26 07:40:15 UTC

We have been inquiring into poverty. We really wanted to take effective action to help the poor. So we helped Bangkok community help foundation prepare and give out food to the poor. We also baked and sold cookies and brownies to people in our apartment buildings, we raised 4,000 Baht and donated it to Bangkok community help foundation.

Safiya & Sarah

30safiyad1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:40:21 UTC

Safiya and Sarah are inquiring into Exotic Pet trade and how it impacts the Animal’s well-being, and their Habitats. They wanted to find out what exactly exotic pets were, why they were being traded/sold and why it needs to stop.

30leov1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:41:02 UTC

Leo, Julian and Daniel value nature and animals. Because of this they partners decided to learn about plastic pollution. They were going to do a topic about plastic pollution in the world, but they realized that it was WAY too big of a topic. They thought for a few hours and realized that a massive producer of plastic pollution were convenience stores. They then decided to get a bit of information by interviewing the store across from NIST. Some questions they asked were: Why do you use plastic bags instead of paper? What type of plastic do you give out the most? The answer to the first question was: Paper is a lot more expensive. The answer to the second was: Paper bags. With this information they wrote their infograph. When they finished that, they built their expression piece.

30jaydac1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:41:24 UTC

30amandat3_1 — 2023-05-26 07:41:28 UTC

Amanda found the subject about how deforestation affects animals really interesting. She looked deeper into what deforestation is and how it affects the environment and animals. She wants to decrease deforestation by asking people to use less wood and use more sustainable items.

Air pollution By Disney, Maja and Mya

30disneyy2 — 2023-05-26 07:41:29 UTC

Me (Disney), Maja and Mya did a good job at doing our project. Our main topic is about Air pollution but, we also focused on land pollution. We made a poster that represents almost all the knowledge we know. Our expression piece expressed a good side of “ what we want “ and “ what we are going to get “ if we don’t solve this problem. We really cared about this problem because we don’t want to lose the planet. We care about it and we have to. Once we see it, we ‘HAVE’ to solve it.

ruri and Mayu’s inquiring into screen-addictionShe was researching about how art therapy can help kids to avoid screen and wanted to know what was the most effective way to help them.Her expression was about doing an art therapy class. We did this to see their.

30mayuo1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:42:00 UTC

David and Anthony’s Photo

30davidc1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:42:16 UTC

David and Anthony are trying to reduce and control plastic pollution in the streets and waterways in Bangkok. David and Anthony are researching the use and disposal of plastic and how it affects animals. Their aim is to raise awareness about proper disposal of plastic and to reduce plastic pollution in Bangkok

30surayaa — 2023-05-26 07:42:34 UTC

Gender inequality in workspaces

30avay1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:42:36 UTC

Ava wondered why genders were treated differently from the very start, so she started inquiring into gender inequality through workspaces. She focused on her values and beliefs, and then she made her way through PYPx by making her action changing maternity leave for women.

30simonm1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:42:36 UTC

Hudson researched the causation of air pollution and a list of plants that are the best for making the air in your house clean.Yongpin researched the health effects of air pollution and helped Hudson with the construction of the Expression peace. And a lot of other stuff.

30hudsonr1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:43:56 UTC

Egil and Francisco’s photo

30franciscoc1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:44:10 UTC

We have been inquiring into the big issue of deforestation.
We wanted to know why people needed to cut down so many
trees.
We did a lot of research about why people cut down so many trees each year and found out why. People cut down normal trees to plant palm trees.

Stateless and refugees

30gigis1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:44:34 UTC

Gigi has been researching the rights of stateless people and refugees. Gigi has been inquiry into her 3 line of inquiry. For Gigi’s action she made a model about how stateless and refugees wants to live she also helped a stateless person and for Gigi’s expression she made a drawing of a person melting from an ID card

Nada’s PYPx project about air pollution

30nadap1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:45:18 UTC

Nada’s is inquiring into air pollution and the impact on the environment. She was inquiring into how air pollution affects our environment and what causes it. Her expression is a drawing of a girl that is split in half one side is good the other is a bad side and her action is planning to make a service group in the future to help farmers like Fair NIST Coffee.

30benm1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:45:35 UTC

Ben has been researching the type of vans at NIST. Ben have been researching different car dealerships in Bangkok to pitch to Mr. James, I have also been researching what the NIST community thinks about this. Ben has taken action by researching car dealerships and pitching the ideas to him, Ben also created Carbon credits. Ben's expression is a model of an electric car plugging into a charging station with facts at the top

Haruto, Newton, Katrina’s PYPx curation station photo!

30harutoa2 — 2023-05-26 07:48:22 UTC

Haruto, Newton, and Katrina has been interested in slums in Khlong Toei. Haruto and his partners decided to find out more about that area so they did some more research. When he had done enough research, he and his partners even volunteered at Bangkok Community Help Foundation as part of taking action. Newton also went to second chance to donate extra pieces of cloth from tailor shops and extra clothes. He talked to Second Chance and asked them about what they do.

Arinda, Aylin and Marie

30mariea1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:49:22 UTC

Our Topic is about Inclusive Vs Exclusive Language at NIST. First we would say that do you know what Inclusive Language Vs Exclusive Language mean? The we would explain if it was a little kid or younger we would make it easier. Our action was that we went to Ms. Megan we asked her if she wanted our posters and she said yes. Then we asked if we could change the “ girl” or “ boy” sign above the spare swimsuits. Now they just say small sizes and bigger size. And then we handed out some A4 Posters to the Art teachers, Music Teachers and more. And then we would talk about our expression pieces. The little kids seemed interested in the bright colors, they were also intrested in the mini posters we were handing out.

Otto’s topic was poor infrastructure.

30ottor — 2023-05-26 07:49:24 UTC

Otto was interested in inquiring about Poor infrastructure because he thinks that it’s not a well known problem and that people should know about it because it is a big problem in Thailand.

30gigil1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:50:16 UTC

Gigi and Zainab have been focusing on screen addiction.
We researched about the health effects and the why are so addicted.
It was fun and hard at the same time because the topic really interests us and we had to research all the time.

Hana, Sasha, Anamika and Kelly’s photo

30hanar1_1 — 2023-05-26 07:51:25 UTC

Hana, Sasha, Anamika and Kelly inquired into animal abuse in Thailand. They researched about animal abuse in Thailand. Hana, Sasha and Anamika’s expression was a play, and Kelly’s was a fake tiger skin rug where you could write  what you could do to help the tigers. Their action was making flyers and handing them out.

Gender neutral clothing Kate PYPx

30kater1_1 — 2023-05-29 01:26:10 UTC

Kate has been researching into gender neutral clothing in nist uniforms because there’s
a big price gap in male clothes and female clothes. I believe clothing should be for all genders and for all people. Kate learned that children start to learn gender by the age of 3 and 5 Kate decided to take action so she
readesigned the NIST uniform to make it more gender neutral

Rio and Anusorn

30rion1_1 — 2023-05-29 01:26:29 UTC

In PYPx Rio and Anusorn have been working on gender inequality in sports and they are raising awareness to the NIST community about the discrimination in female athletes. They researched on what challenges female athletes face and how they can take an impact. Their action was to raise awareness and make a poster about famous female athletes and their expression is that they made a Lego stadium to show that their are less people watching women athletes.

Proad & Kyota’ s PYPx

30kyotak — 2023-05-29 01:26:53 UTC

Proad and Kyota became very interested in childhood poverty in Thailand. They researched about the effects of kids living in poverty, what is being done by organizations in Thailand and how they could help the childrens that are under the poverty line. They took action by donating books to Khun Uan (The Y6 maid) and wrote an email to Mr. James requested that the school could invite childrens living in the Khlong Toei slum to play at our playground and swimming pool.

Yui, Fatimah and Taraneh: Food Waste At NIST

30yuis1_1 — 2023-05-29 01:26:57 UTC

For PYPx Yui,Fatimah and Taraneh inquired into food waste at NIST and how to reduce the amount of it. They interviewed Mr. Stu and found out the challenges they were facing at NIST. They used the information to make a lesson plan to teach elementary. They expressed and shared their message by drawing an image of the trash can in the canteen at NIST. They took action by teaching elementary students about food waste and causes of it.

Julian’s PYPx about meat consumption and production.

30julianh1_1 — 2023-05-29 01:27:27 UTC

Julian inquired into the effects of meat consumption and how it is produced.

Julian has been researching about how meat effects animals, the enviroment and you.

He has took action by showing Alternatives and changing his diet, for his expression he journaled everything he ate and made cooking videos to show that there are other alternatives.

Peer pressure - Jamie

30jamiet1_1 — 2023-05-29 01:27:32 UTC

Jamie has been researching how peer pressure affects Teens and young people. For Jamie’s action he made a teacher resource that teachers can use to teach their students ,morning meeting slide that was based off of peer pressure, a poster with strategies to resist peer pressure and a podcast that acts both an action and an expression, for his expression he has a poem and a drawing.

Coral bleaching - Save our reefs🪸

30saanviw — 2023-05-29 01:27:35 UTC

Saanvi and Lara are very concerned about how coral reefs help the marine life and life on land. They are inquiring into coral bleaching and how it impacts the world. For their action they participated in a conference with the UN. Saanvi also participated in a beach clean up. And for their expression Saanvi and Lara both made paintings to make people stop and think.

Autism and Inclusion

30tarar1_1 — 2023-05-29 01:29:08 UTC

Tara inquired into autism and inclusion and what it is. She wanted to raise awareness and educate people on what autism is, because people often misunderstand it. She did a speech and painting to raise awareness.

Period Poverty and Women’s health

2023-05-29 01:29:25 UTC

Maisey was super interested in Period Poverty so for PYPX she chose Period Poverty as her issue, her action is, on Sunday she will go to Khlong Toei with the Bangkok community center to give away pads. The box you see right here is the period box if you saw her email she sent to all the year 6 parents, she told them to bring pads and tampons. If you have them please put them in the box. She has researched a lot about women's health, and period poverty.

stopping gender stereotypes.

30matildac1_1 — 2023-05-29 01:30:45 UTC

Matilda is very interested in stopping gender stereotypes, gender stereotypes are a group of characteristics that people assume someone likes because of their gender. She has been researching how we can make NIST a more inclusive school and make the school a gender stereotype free school. For her action and expression she has made a picture book and will put it in the MLC and will read it to some classes in year 1&2.

improving mobility and access at Nist and Bangkok

30pauls1_1 — 2023-05-29 01:32:39 UTC

Paul and Marwin are inquiring into mobility and access at NIST and Bangkok Marwin And I is researching how to make spaces more accessible for everyone. Paul and Marwin took action by making a portable ramp so people in wheelchairs can move easier. And they also made a 3D model house for their expression piece.

Chloe, Mia and Tricia

30triciah1_1 — 2023-05-29 01:34:29 UTC

Tricia, Mia and Chloe were interested in exotic pet trade and how wild animals are being kept as pets. They are inquiring into exotic pet trade and how it’s bad for our health, environment and animals. And gathered information about their topic. For their action piece, they made a video to spread awareness and teach others about their issue. For their expression piece is a painting that makes people stop and think about what is happening. They interviewed an expert and invited other students from different classes with the same/similar topic to join them.

30teunv1_1 — 2023-05-29 01:35:31 UTC

Teun and Bright have been inquiring into water pollution in in the khlongs in Bangkok and the canals in Amsterdam. For their action they made a diy water filter to try to filter the water from the khlong. They conducted experiments to test the water quality and made a prototype first then we made a real thing and then it worked for the expression we made a podcast to listen to in the listening station

Timmy

30timmyn — 2023-05-29 01:59:20 UTC

For his PYPx, Timmy has been researching the importance of coping strategies to better mental health. He researched into the different coping strategies people can use to better their mental health, and how these coping strategies can be used as day-to-day activities to help you get through any tough time. For his expression, he wanted to get the crowd involved so they can experience doing these coping strategies. He made a spinny wheel and whatever it lands on, you will do it and reflect on how it made you feel on a sticky note. He asks that you don’t spin the wheel incorrectly, and without his permission, as there is a high chance that it will break if you don’t do so.

Plastic found at nist

2023-05-29 06:56:49 UTC

Inar inquired into Plastic Pollution found at NIST, For example I took a trip around the school, Inar found out that in the teachers lounge they had a fridge filled with plastic bags. Plastic is really bad for the environment since it’s made out of oil and other toxic chemicals.

30thomasl4_1 — 2023-05-30 04:51:52 UTC

Thomas has been inquiring and learning about overfishing in Thailand.

. He wanted to know why people were fishing so much in Thailand.

. If you are interested Thomas has made a video about overfishing, you can come watch.

30oskarw1_1 — 2023-05-30 04:54:51 UTC

Panwa and Oskar really cared about the problem of poverty, so their presentation is all about it in the section about human rights and inequalities. They wanted to know why people are poor and how it makes their lives harder. If you want to know more, they gathered facts and information that you can look at later.

30kaspern1_1 — 2023-05-30 04:57:03 UTC

Kasper(I) was interested in rosewood and and researched about it and looked at companies with rosewood made products such as furniture, instruments and more his(I) action was to make stickers so that companies with rosewood products could put it on so the next time people bought it they knew it was eco friendly

Sara, Porsche and Harry Food Waste

30sarad1_1 — 2023-05-30 05:07:07 UTC

Sara, Porsche and Harry have been inquiring into Food waste.
Their expression was a painting that represents how much time the world has left because of the food that we are wasting, the model they made represents landfills, and they used real food to make that like Ramen noodles and rice and spaghetti. For their action, they went to the year for students and did a presentation about movies in the end we have them seeds to go plant at home so they know how hard it is to grow fruits and vegetables. The reason they went to year 4 is because you get in the survey to complete and they got information and data from them already. They interview with Mr. Stu, the head chef. he gave them a lot of information in ways that we can take action.

Zachary + Gigi (Zach’s Side)

30zachy1_1 — 2023-05-30 05:10:20 UTC

For Zachary’s PYPX topic, He was really interested in minorities and other stateless people. Him and his teammate Gigi have been researching about other stateless people and the causes by interviewing others that help with this issue.So for Zachary’s and Gigi’s expression artwork, They decided to take turns making several things to the point that they need to split the table in half. (If I tell you what this means, you’ll die from boredom)