Day 4!

It’s already Day 4! How time flies!

Our day began early in the morning with a breakfast and sharing session facilitated by Ms Chong and Ms Tay. Under their supervision, we updated each other on what we had learnt in our respective research groups. It proved to be an informative and fun session as we challenged each other to question more about what we were doing, to better understand what we had learnt.

We were then brought by our friendly guides to a talk on the galaxy, proving to be an interesting session as we learnt more about the universe we lived in. and even learnt how to observe pulsars.

 

After the session, Dr Jay Jay Jegathesan gave us a talk on how UWA have made use of “Second Life” to design an impressive virtual replica of UWA’s campus. He also showed us how Second Life had spread its influence all over the world, and was being used worldwide for people to view real world places they might not have actually visited. He even gave us a real-life demonstration by using his Second Life avatar to tour the UWA campus. Here are some pictures of this “out of this world” session.

    

It was a morning full of activity, and it was not going to slow down. After a quick lunch back at Trinity College, we set off for Gin Gin Gravity Discovery centre, taking a long bus trip through the countryside.

Gin Gin Gravity Discovery Centre was full of brilliant new things to learn! The exhibits made copious usages of physics to achieve jaw dropping results. As we walked through, our helpful guide Grant introduced prominent exhibits to us and answered any queries we had regarding the exhibits.

The Discovery Centre was also well stocked with cleverly designed physics-related toys that made for awesome souvenirs.

One of the highlights of the Discovery Centre was the “Leaning tower of GinGin”. It was a cleverly engineered tower designed to have a slanted design, just like the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

It was a long climb to the top, but the view at the top was definitely worth the climb as we got to behold kilometre are kilometer of breathtakingly beautiful forest.

But the breathtaking scenery still wasn’t the highlight of the tower. We filled water balloons and carried them to the top of the tower, to drop them off the top and watch the effects of gravity, similar to what physicist Galileo did centuries ago to test the effects of gravity. We would elaborate more on what we did… but the sign and pictures better explains it all.





It was definitely an educational but incredibly entertaining activity, after which we had a sumptuous dinner of hot dogs and chips by the Discovery Centre’s Café





The final activity of the night was a tour through a garden built to model the universe. Our guide Grant told us more interesting information about each planet in our solar system.

After that interesting session, we boarded the bus and left the Gin Gin Gravity Discovery Centre to return to Trinity College. An eventful day for all.

Till next time!