Science Camp 2013

Hello! I just came back from Natural Hills Lembang to attend an event held by my school, that's Science Camp 2013. It was held for 2 days 1 night.  The motto of Science Camp 2013 is Cogito Ergo Sum. It was taken from a Latin philosophical proposition by René Descartes. It means "I think, therefore I am". The aim from this event is to make a strong and powerful team to lift up SMA Negeri 3 Bandung's reputation.

Rene Descartes

I was being taught a little about geography by Kang Alfanda and Mr. Priyadi. Kang is how you call other older people(boy) in Sundanese. Kang Alfanda got a silver medal in a national Olympiad in geography subject. He's my mentor for my research and olympiad in geography.

On Friday, 9 October 2015, we gathered at school at 6.30 am and then went to Natural Hills at around 7.30 am. We went there by angkot (public transportation). We finally arrived at around 9.00 am. I was so excited! After that we can unpack our things in our own rooms. My roommates are Diekea, Dini, Kami, and Fani.

At first, we gathered at the hall to hear opening speeches from Mr. Encang, Mr. Irvan, Ms. Diana, and The Alya. Teh is how you call older people (girl) in Sundanese. Then we had to watch IT presentation from LIPI. The second agenda is we have to gather with our own sectors. There are many sectors such as Geography, Geology, Astronomy, Economy, Sosiology, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, IT, environment research, and Chemistry.

In the second agenda we had to do a research about geography, At first we were so confused because Geography is such a general topic, but finally we could do it! While we were thinking about the specific topic that we would take, Kang Alfanda suggested us to visit Curug Panganten that's located near our basecamp area. By the way, Curug means waterfall, and Panganten is the name of the waterfall.

Curug Panganten

We asked for permission to go there, but the committee said that we can't go any further from the intersection because the path to go there is long and is steep. So we took some photos only at saung (a place to shelter made from bamboos) and at the intersection. But that's okay because we still can see the beautiful scenery of Curug Panganten and the hills or wet rice field from a far. So we decided to make a presentation about the difference between Greece and Indonesia. I'm the moderator of the presentation. I'm glad that the audience were active and paid attention to us.

I met so many new friends at this event. They're Yazid, Anhar, Kami, Dini, Adisya, Sekar,  Hilda, Luthfi, the committees and many more. I became closer to Nova and Dabim. Have I told you that I wondered about why his name is Dabim? Finally I got the answer! It's like the abbreviation of Dafa Bimantara. I was fooled!

Dabim aka Dafa Bimantara

Anytime at this event, I tried to take as many pictures as I can. Because later in the future this will be just memories, and pictures are the only thing that freezes the time.

After every sectors had presented their own research, We gathered at the field to do Muhasabah. Muhasabah is like musing about your life until now, so you can remember what's your goal, how important our mothers are, and how we have to hold strongly to our dream and chase it. We did it while sitting around the campfire.

After that everyone was sent to their own rooms to get a good night sleep. But I just can't! I'm always hungry at midnight, so I had to made an instant noodles. And then I took a bath at around 00.30 am. It was so cold, and the hot water wasn't being turned on at night. Then I slept at 01.00 am.

But I had to wake up at 4.30 am and pray Shubuh. After praying, some of my friends went back to their sleep because it's so cold in Lembang! Maybe in 05.00 am the temperature reached 15 degrees celcius? I'm not sure since I wasn't checking the temperature. I said that 15 degrees is cold because usually in Bandung, the lowest temperature in the morning is just 19 degrees celcius. Back to the story. I took a picture of a tree at dawn because It's pretty. There's a photo competition in this science camp. At first I want to hand over the tree at dawn to the committee or post it in Instagram, but I haven't made the scientific caption about it. So I didn't manage to join the competition. So sad :(

Silhoutte of a tree at dawn

After that we did a little body exercise, stretching, and gymnastics with the teachers. And then once again we went to the intersection on the way to Curug Panganten. But this time, not only the geography team that went down, but also everyone. I took some photos with my friends there.

And then we played a game. The background of the game is:

"One day, Trilogy city lost an artefact that was placed in the Ristek Museum in the center of the city. The mayor wants it back because if the artefact is missing, then the identity of the city will be withdrew. After carefully observating the location where it was stolen, there are many datas that were found. There was a witness, that's the security, he was ambushed and it made him unconscious when he was looking at the night sky. In the night sky, there was an Aries constellation, but he didn't remember any of the event after that. The security was found unconscious beside the CCTV control room.

All of the access to the museum had no damage at all. But half of the museum rooms were so messy. The iron door has been damaged, and there're shards of glasses with blood. In the storage room, there's only its standplate left. Near the exit, there was a Happy Birthday card and a burnt paper that consist codes to crack. In the CCTV room, there's a blurry fingerprint at the access lock.

There's 4 people that's suspected to be the culprit. They're Alya the guide tour, Diana the secretary, Al Terra the office boy, and Fanda the head of the museum. What you have to do is find who is the culprit by cracking all the codes from all the clues that we have earned at the location."

Everyone was divided to 5 groups. I'm group 1. In every group there're people from different sectors. And we had to find the culprit by answering the question from each sectors. We have to solve the question from our own sectors and connect it to the clues. It made me feel like I'm the real geographer! The question was so hard! But I'm really amazed by how Kang Alfanda made the question. Maybe it's hard because I only knew a little piece of Geography. I worked with Raka to solve the problem. He's from Geology. But we had different questions. His were only 2 question, but I got 5 question. It was all connected. And we found that the culprit is between Diana and Al Terra.

Because we're the first group, so we presentated it first. But I wonder why there're no audience. Only the judges and the culprits. I found out later that other groups had an extra time because they're not presenting it. They wrote the answers down on a paper. All of the sectors in our group answer that the culprit was between Diana and Al Terra. Then the real culprit was Diana because the IT sector succeeded in cracking the code in the CCTV room. It was Diana who broke in and stole the artefact. My heart was beating like crazy when I presented this because I really want our group won this game. But we only got the 2nd place :(

But It's okay because we have worked hard and all out! It was fun indeed. Thank you for my seniors who had created this game. :)

The Prize of winning the 2nd place

After that we have to fly three kites. The committees are observating the process and how the kites flew. And the winner of this game is so unexpected. It's the teacher team! Hahaha

And the winner of the photography contest was revealed. That's Rezky! Congratulation to all the winner of the games!

Rezky's picture of Flying Mantis

After packing, we went back to the hall to attend the closing event, the announcement of the winners, and then took some photos again. After eating lunch, we got into angkot and then went back to SMA Negeri 3 Bandung. Thank God we arrived safely!

After all, I'm so happy to be a part of Science Camp III 2015. I want to be the committee of next year's science camp, but that means I have to learn geography harder, join trilogy and win the olympiads! The nature is beautiful, and we have to take care of it. We live on earth but why do we not knowing any thing about this planet? Now I know why I love Geography :)

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