The Horse 2021/22

Team from Wetzikon: Winterhalter Simon, Sigg Nicola

Team from Dortmund (Germany): Johanna, Josef

Your Research Question (what?)

• advantages, disavantages
• self-experiment (living without sugar)
• interview

Your Answer: Project description, methods/techniques, etc. (How?)

Self-Experiment with  two people from Germany (Collaboration)

Product: A report about our self-experiment and experiences without sugar. And how sugar is produced and imported into our country.

Various, e.g. material needed, expert proposals, difficulties

- a daily diary for our experiences

- a good computer with good programs

Expert's Comment:

We are going to ask Indian doc. Dr. Med. Arno Roy and his colleague Dr. Med. Michael Inauen for their opinions.

Goals/Result

Publish an article on "don't waste my energy".

Andrei and I want to research, how to travel ecofriendlier by plane. 

Possible Questions are:

Is it possible to fly without kerosin?

Should travelling be more expensive so that an amount could be for the environment?

Collaboration partner: Friends from romania

Alternatives for plastic packaging

Oilcloth / Wachstuch 
Cloth bag / Stoffbeutel
Shopping net / Einkaufsnetz
Glas / Einmachgläser 

Do you have other ideas? Habt ihr andere Ideen?

Idea:

In our project Lara and I want to compare the water scarcity of the canton of Zurich with Kerala.

Tools for the project:

For our project, we are creating a survey that will be filled out by two students from Kerala.
We are also interviewing experts and professionals from the communities to collect our information. We also use the internet for our research

Collaboration partners:

Two students from Kerala.

Mindmap:

Nutrition or food consumed in Switzerland

• Processed products and their production (harvest - product in Migros)
• Unhealthy diet
  • Sugar (Thematize how many everyday foods contain sugar)
  • Additives (chemistry)
• A self-experiment (giving up sugar) is carried out with the collaboration partners. They tell us about their experiences with sugar in their culture.

Eating Habits

Leara and me would like to find out what packaging alltetnative we have to plastic and how we could produce them.

Then we want to try and produce some here at our school with the help of some other classes. After that we would like to give halfe of the produced packaging products to a village shop nearby and send the other halfe to a shop in Kerala. Then we would like to see how many people would use this products, and if it prevent the waste of plastic

How to build a collaboration team:

We already know several people who work in different sectors of the construction industry. After we have worked out a concept and the basic framework is in place, we will contact them. In advance we will send them a small overview of our project so that they already cab get to grips with it.

As our partners come from Switzerland, we have no problems with the time difference. There should also be no misunderstandings about language barriers. It is best to arrange appointments during the working week, as we sometimes have afternoons off, it should not be a problem to arrange this. If it comes up and the knowledge about other cultures is available, we could also include this.

Collaboration partners:

Isabella Zollinger (Architektin)
Sarah Sanchez (Bauleiterin)
Marco Eggs (Geschäftsführer Jansen Architektur)
Christian Eggenberger (Geschäftsführer Bauunternehmung)
Stefan Zollinger (Gemeinderat Tiefbau)
Ralf Stadelmann (Geschäftsführer Sinfla)

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Topic: Sustainable Tourism

Partner: Lia

Konzept/Vorgehen:

Was ist die Wirkung, welche die Gruppe mit ihrer Aktion genau auslösen möchte? (effect/impact?)

Die Auswirkungen/ Vorteile / Mögliche Gefahren von nachhaltigem Tourismus ermitteln

Hauptaspekte --> Reisemöglichkeiten, Unterkünfte, lokales

Mit welchen Mitteln soll diese Wirkung erzielt werden? (methods/techniques/tools?)

What exactly is the effect that the group wants to trigger with its action?

Electric cars are considered by society to be enormously environmentally friendly and energy efficient.

But we set out to find out whether this is really true or whether a conventional combustion engine is not so bad after all.

What are the means by which the intended effect is to be achieved?

Through research and a specialist, we will investigate this question and come to a conclusion with confidence. A work colleague works in the car industry and can give us even more details about electric cars

How is this effect to be achieved?

• A few questions might be:

How harmful to the environment is the production compared to a gasoline engine?

How does it compare in use?

We also want to make comparisons with diagrams 

Who is the target audience?

Our project is open to all. We also want to address especially people who have not thought much about the impact of cars on the environment until now.

From Mario and Joel

in progress..

Project: Reducing plastic waste 

Team: Angela Diljak & Liranda Kurtesi

Effects:

We want people to realize how much plastic waste is created during the day and that it effects us negatively. 

Methods:

We want to inform people on how much plastic is used for ready-made foods and how all of the plastic effects our environment. Also we're going to make an effort to reduce our personal use of it to set a good example. 

Strategy:

We're going to research how many greenhouse gases are created for the production of plastic packaging, then we're going to write a report on how that effects our environment. After that we're going to monitor how much waste we create ourselves and try to find ways to reduce that amount. We might do a survey to see how many people buy wrapped food to see how bad the situation really is.

Audience:

Students and working people that tend to eat out a lot. But really anyone is welcome to read our article. 

Project: Tap water (around the world)

Team: Emina Murtic und Sandrina Nauer

Effects:

We want to draw people’s attention to how easily / hard some people have access to drinking water and how people in different countries (have to) deal with (tap) water etc.

Which method do we want to use?

• Interview with people from other countries
• Survey in the street/internet how people think about this topic
• Research in the internet
• Check it in our everyday life (How do we have to deal with tap (water)

Strategy:

We will apply the above methods, document everything accurately and hopefully achieve our desired goals.

Audience:

Everyone that is interested.