Project Orion - Rovering with Turtles
is the 2nd Scouts of the World Award (SWA) Voluntary Service Project of the SWA Singapore Base.

Led by 9 Rover Scouts from Singapore and Malaysia, the project is set upon
the beautiful wetlands and beaches of Setiu, Terengganu.

Lasting 16 days from 20th June to 5th July, the team will not only be contributing to the
conservation of sea turtles, but will also be involved in mangrove replanting,
repair work for the villagers and WWF info centre, English and conservation awareness education,
assistance in the local women's cottage industry amongst many others.

"Leave the place a little better than you first found it." - Lord Baden Powell
UPDATE: The blog will be updated from time to time with more turtle new issues. However, Project Orion blog will be replaced by the next project when it starts with the new team. So, DO STAY TUNED!

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Meeting 6

Venue: Sakura Restaurant

Discussion
1) Final collection of passport copies, medical declaration and international forms

2) Logistics check
- Individual packing list
- Team packing list

3) Post-Event and R&R brief

4) AOB
- Sponsorship updates by Co-Leader
- Treasury to-do-list

5) Final project brief by Team Leader
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Busy shopping for books

After we completed the Project GREASE workshop in RGS, some of us headed to Bras Basah Complex to buy some logistics for the kids at Terrenganu!

Getting flashcards...
many things to learn!!

Sijie and Nicholas
Things on our shopping list include educational posters, flashcards, English storybooks, stationary and many more!

I think we are going to have a lot of fun with the villagers both adult and young ones alike!!

Can't wait for the day to come to interact with the kids and teach them read! That would be an accomplishment for the team!


Signed off,
May Lwin
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2nd Pre-Event at Raffles Girls' School

It was a cloudy Saturday morning where we Project Orion Rovers went for our second pre-event at Raffles Girls School. Our main objective was to learn how to reuse used cooking oil into making soap. And by learning this, we hope we can introduce it to those in the village at Setiu and use this opportunity to generate more revenue. The workshop, which is called Project Grease, was facilitated by Secondary 3 girls from Raffles. Here are some of the photos taken from the event this morning.Our demonstrator, Brenda
Materials needed. That was cooking oil by the way, not tea~
Sodium Hydroxide
Pour into the water.
Temperature risinggg~Concentrating on stirring the solvent.
And we kept stirring....

and stirring...
waiting for the oil to hit the same temperature as the solvent...preparing for the next step!
pour the solvent into the cooking oil!
list of fragrances to add in the mixture
tada~ waiting for the mixture to mould

packing the team's soaps for our trip!
Project Orion with Mrs Lee, Mentor of the Project Grease and a group of students from RGS!

From starting to end, we had great fun as we were learning something not taught from our textbooks. All in all it was a fruitful event and we really hope to make full use of the opportunity to share this with the people in Setiu.

Signed off,
Ashok
Secretary

Captions by: May Lwin
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