Registration (Zeehan & Airani) - Welcome all participants

Welcome and Introductions (Siva)

Welcome to NUS
Introduce ICCS staff; others who will be there that day. NSS staff who are another workshop.

Introduce the schools.
Beatty Secondary, RGS, United World College, Overseas Family School, NYAA, Nanyang Poly, RI
Welcome to the ICCS family - VJC, YMCA, MTI Staff Club, SEC Riverkeepers, Yusof Ishak Sec, Dunman High, Elias Park Primary

Catholic High, Commonwealth Secondary School, Saint Andrew's Junior College, Tao Nan Marlin Sea Scouts, Singapore American School's Middle School, Singapore American School's SAVE Club, Temasek Junior College (Green Instinx), Victoria Junior College, Woodllands Ring Secondary School

It is Teacher's Day: We recognise the contributions of teachers

The cleanup is a recognition of Singapore's amazing biodiversity!

Introduction to the cleanup (Kate Thome) -
CMC Slide show: why, how, when, where

Background of ICC Singapore (Kate & Siva)
Initiation by a single letter
Individual effort can make a difference
The power of a dream

Milestones
1992 - Started the first ICCS
1994 - Adm Teo tells Kate data was used in Parliament: cigarette smoking and butts on beaches
1997 - Searching for beaches! Mangrove cleanup initiated
1998 - Washed up
1999 - Sungei Buloh Nature Park an organiser
2000 - Online cleanup; webpage
2001 - 10th anniversary: NUS RMBR involved as organiser
Snazzy webpage by students in NYP
10 years data will presented on webpage
A target for us: data compiled and reported to webpage within the same day *** the urgency of this matter ***

Procedural Briefing & Safety

Beach - Hang Chong

Mangrove -Siva

Break

Data Collection Process (Siva)
Introduce Manager

Beach procedure
NSS buddy system; rapidly report the schools data to Airani the same day; on the web by 5pm

Mangrove procedure -
Compile on the spot; key in and onto the webpage by 3pm

Educational Links & Brainstorming (Kate & Siva)

Classroom ideas - what you can do with the data

Using it in classes on maths, visual representation of collected items,
- measure item, multiply by total no collected, measure object of comparison eg distance from NUS to Bukit Timah; make comparison choose creative comparisons and submit to me for webpage.
How much of it from beach goers? What does it say about our habits?

Quadrat studies - results next year from 5 years of data. Yet already we can estimate amount of trash load for the whole coast, and recruitment each year.

Mangrove project, we will try to make a living room project - reflect the nature of the site; ex-kampung dwellings

Internet projects: Web pages to construct; photos and reports to send in: we want to make you famous! E.g VJC photos

Saving Inky Video

Questions and Answers