📢Invitation to Science Silpakorn International Summer School 2024

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🔥Deadline Extended until 20 May 2024.

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🧑‍🔬The Faculty of Science at Silpakorn University (SCSU) is delighted to announce our upcoming "Science Silpakorn International Summer School 2024", which will take place from 8 - 12 June 2024 at SCSU in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.

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🏫We would like to invite B.Sc. students who are enrolled in universities outside Thailand or international students who are studying in Thailand to join the camp. Our program offers academic classes in Physics, Microbiology, Environmental Science, Biology, and Chemistry, as well as meals, accommodations, partial financial support for travel costs to Thailand for students overseas, and excursions. The program is free. The students will only need to pay for their transportation to Thailand (Bangkok or Nakhon Pathom) and their travel/health insurance.

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💻Academic activities

•Physics (Let's have fun with solar drying)

• Learning of solar drying basics

• Activity on solar drying including preparing materials, drying, using several instruments to measure product’s qualities

•Microbiology (Aerobic plate count and agar art)

• Aerobic Plate Count (APC):

Knowledge: Define and explain the concept of aerobic plate count (APC) and its significance in assessing microbial quantity in various samples (food, water, cosmetics, etc.).

Skills: Perform serial dilutions, aseptically plate samples, and enumerate colony-forming units (CFUs) using the APC method.

Application: Interpret APC results in the context of established guidelines and evaluate sample quality based on microbial counts.

• Agar Art:

Knowledge: Comprehend the basic principles of bacterial growth and colony morphology on agar plates.

Skills: Apply aseptic techniques to streak and inoculate agar plates with designated bacterial strains.

Creativity: Design and create an artistic representation using different colored bacterial colonies on agar plates.

•Environmental Science (utilization of grease from grease trap for clay arts)

• Learn how to clean a stinky grease from a grease trap and turn it to valuable ingredient for clay arts.

•Biology (Nature Journaling)

• Students will learn how to create images for nature journaling. 

• They will explore cyanotype, a camera-less photographic process that utilizes light-sensitive chemicals to capture shadows and create images.

•Chemistry (Natural Colorants and their Applications)

• Natural Colorants and their Applications.

• Explore natural colorants, their sources, chemistry, and applications. Take part in using natural colorants in traditional Thai dessert cooking.

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✈️Please note that the application deadline is 20 May 2024, or whenever we reach our total quota. 

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☎️For any questions or concerns, please contact us.

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Sincerely,

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📍Faculty of Science, Silpakorn University

Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

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🖱 Website: https://sites.google.com/g.su.ac.th/summer-school-sc-su/

📱 Facebook page: Science Silpakorn International Summer School

💻 Online application: https://forms.gle/KMGt5NniaDmUN9Bx6

📩 Email address: scisu@su.ac.th

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📖 More Details: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cr6YSBTNlqJAy7G-zqsDxNNcZpJk7gXG/view?usp=sharing

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