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Starting with a first experience in 2008 (in Tianjin) the Liceo Foscarini has been participating in the International Student Science Conference - organized to improve the learning of Science and to help establish fruitful collaborations and friendships among students and participating schools: in 2017 schools from China, Australia, Kazakhstan, Indian, Hong Kong, Taiwan (and Italy!) have adhered.
Since 2011 students from the Liceo Foscarini have regularly participated: in that year the conference has been hosted in Venice for the first time.
In these years group of students from Foscarini who participated in the ISSC conferences have, under the supervision of their Natural Sciences teachers (and, recently, of their Mathematics and Physics ones), completed scientific researches on different topics, all of high quality and resulting from passionate collaborations:
Diets and Cardiovascular Diseases
The group examined the principal functions ot nutrition together with the nutritive principles. The diets of the countries participating to the Conference were analaysed, so the Mediterranean diet, the Asiatic diet and the Australian diet were compared. Finally, the cardiovascular diseases were studied and the analysis of the statistical data highlighed the strong relationship between diet and this kind of illnesses.
Chemistry and Organisms in the Venetian Lagoon.
Knowing that a lagoon often presents shits in salinity, the students checked whether there was a connection between the salinity in the water and the distribution of organisms. During a day-long excursion with an expert of Cooperativa Limosa, some water samples were analysed and the students observed the adaptations of plants and animals.
Facing CO2 - Sustainable Transport in Venice.
The aims of the project were to know the renewable sources of energy in order to identify better solutions to reduce CO2 emissions and to conduct a study of the intervention that Venetian Authorities are carrying out in order to reach the Kyoto Protocol goals.
Degradation and Conservation of Venetian Buildings: Our School as the Laboratory.
The study deals with the issues concerning the main building materials used in Venice, about the physical, chemical and biological degradation that affects them, and the possible remedies. As the Liceo “Marco Foscarini” was a former monastery back in the middle ages, it was chosen for observations and analysis.
Smart Cities : a Case Study of Our New School Building.
How can Science use Creativity to improve the quality of Life? The idea of the study came from Smart City, a new concept of city involving the utilization of networked infrastructure to improve efficiency. The students interest focused on sustainable housing. Recently, Liceo Marco Foscarini, was allowed to construct a new school building embodying higher technology: it is really a Smart building!
New Technology in Paints : Projecting Ourselves and the Environment.
Wall paints should be washable, which means having a good wet scrub resistance, and should have a low dirt retention. Furthermore, they should be harmless for people, especially indoors, and eco-friendly: sustainable products make sustainable buildings. Not far from Venice, the Colorificio San Marco is working in this direction. The group visited the company and learnt about the latest paint technologies: highly washable paint with very low emissions of volatile compounds.
Reducing Plastic Pollution: Monitoring of Floating Litter in Venice Canals and Recycling at School.
Plastic pollution and its dangerous impacts, particularly on the marine ecosystem, are a persistent and growing environmental problem that must be faced at a global level. Consequences include damage to wildlife resulting from ingestion of plastic fragments or entanglement in plastic pieces and the leaching of chemicals from trash. As an island lacking an automatic waste collection, Venice is highly vulnerable: floating litter in its canals and the accumulation of garbage along the coasts of lagoon’s little islands are visible effects of this.
Diet and Food Waste of Italian High School Students: How to Improve Our Water Footprint
The Water Footprint (WF) measures the amount of water used to produce goods and services we use. Among the factors that contribute to the WF of a nation, a key role is played by the production and the consumption of food. The group designed a survey on dietary habits which was distributed to all 15-year-old pupils in the school and measured the amount of food eaten and wasted in the school cafeteria.
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