During the September holidays, another CmPS group, Project APPdicted conducted a workshop for students from RGPS (Raffles Girls' Primary School). The objective of the workshop is to improve interactions between families and friends, without the interference of technology. We helped them out in their workshop by introducing urban nature to the participants such that they can reduce the usage of technology and find alternative ways to spend their time with their loved ones.
As we are only given a 15 minute slot to talk to the students about our project, we decided to come up with a booklet (seen above) so that we can ensure awareness is raised about the urban nature deficit and at the same time, promote the Butterfly Trail @ Orchard. The booklet can also reach out to the adult participants, as we were not given a chance to talk to them more about our project.
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| Shayna, Yuexin and Kate preparing door gifts:
Each bag includes Project APPdicted's and Project W.I.S.H.'s booklets, a tag designed by Project APPdicted, a hand-made rose and a badge designed by Project W.I.S.H. and a pencil from RGS. |
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Registration started at 7.45a.m.
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Upon registration, each participant are told which team they are assigned to for the station games in the later part of the workshop. The 7 team names are named after butterfly plants which can be found in our school, namely bloodflower, ixora, snakeweed, yellow bell, lantana, crown flower and wedelia. Having the teams named after the butterfly plants, we can ensure that the participants knew at least one type of butterfly plant in Singapore as a takeaway from the workshop.
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| Presentation |
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The hardest photo: Everybody participated actively to find the butterfly in this photograph as it is well photoshopped by Kate. This photograph was also proven to be the hardest one in the game when we played this game in Science Centre's workshop.
Moving on to our presentation time, we started off with a round of game 'Spot the butterfly' with the participants, similar to the workshop we conducted at Science Centre in the June holidays. The participants who have sat through a 45 minute talk and watched videos shown by Project APPdicted were glad to be able to have more interaction. Afterwards we briefly introduced the butterfly trail to the participants and encouraged them to take walks along the trail -- to foster family bonding, exercise, appreciate nature, learn more about urban nature and to reduce the usage of technological devices.
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| Moving on to talking more about our project |
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Shayna introducing the Butterfly Trail @ Orchard to the participants
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After a short break, we split into the teams assigned previously upon registration. As it was not full attendance, we have to reduce to 5 teams. Yuexin and Shayna were station mistresses as the games they were in charge of during IHG (Inter house games) were reused in this workshop while the rest of us led the 5 teams to the respective stations.
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| Yuexin's station: Identify host plants around the school |
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| The participants visited our school garden to find more butterfly plants. At the same time, they learn more about our project and our project's aim. |
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| Shayna's station: Matching the butterfly names to the respective pictures. |
We then concluded the workshop after the station games with the participants filling up the feedback form. The feedback was quite postive and most of them found this workshop fun and interesting. 16 out of the 23 adult participants (about 70%) strongly agree that they see the need to expose their child more to nature like the Butterfly Trail walk @ Orchard while 12 out of the 18 children participants (around 67%) strongly agree that they see the urgent need to be in touch with nature and most of them are strongly willing to share their knowledge of the butterfly trail at Orchard with my family and friends. Now that the participants are aware that there is a butterfly trail at Orchard, many of them agree that they will visit the trail with their family and friends.
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| Ixora team |
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| Yellow Bell team -- Winner of the day! |
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| Group photo at the end of the workshop |
