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Kaohsiung Municipal Cijin Junior High School (2012 CyberFair Project ID 7056)
Taiwan,
Kaohsiung City
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 8 student(s) from 12 to 15 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Kaohsiung is an ocean city in Taiwan, and it is also a world-famous harbor and modern city. The shape of Cijin is like a liner on the sea. The weather in Cijin Island is always shinny and the people are always passionate, attracting tourists around the globe. However, one trouble thing is that, as the typhoon arrives, the driftwood will drift along the bank, making the fish boats or the navy ships so difficult to come to the bank for shelter. When the boats get started, the propeller will get broken due to the driftwood. This would make the boats/ships unable to move. Thus, the government has to devote massive human resources and money to clean out or move away the driftwoods. Well, what we want to ask is, Is there any effective way to solve the Gordian knot of driftwoods that occur—every year? We want to trace back the causes of the driftwood in order to seek an effective approach to solve it.
Project Description: We will examine the cause of the driftwood and its consequences to our life. Moreover, we also propose our suggestion of how we are going to tackle with the consequences of the driftwood and more importantly, how we reuse the driftwood and even make them become pieces of artworks.
The super typhoon Morakot brought severe disaster to Taiwan in August, 2009. There occurred severe landslides and mudflows in the mountain areas both in the central and the southern Taiwan. The driftwood, moreover, covers the whole riverbanks, harbors, and banks. The local government finds it so difficult to clean the massive driftwood. Well, what is the real cause of driftwood? Where should the piles of driftwood go then? Should they, like waste, be thrown away or do they have any better function? We want to use the project to highlight the importance of environmental protection in Taiwan. Moreover, while the countries around the world are promoting the importance of energy saving, we follow the notion of recycle and reuse in order to transform the driftwoods into biofuels, fertilizers, and even pieces of wood sculptures. This, no doubt, re-creates the second life for the driftwoods.