Health Drivers Ed Campaign – Fatigue

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What were the biggest things you learnt while completing this task?

The fact that majority of driving deaths are not just caused singularly by drink driving, or drug taking, but instead by other minor factors of influence such as fatigue, which is unexpectedly a sizeable portion of driving deaths that occur annually.

What is one piece of advice you would pass on to young drivers above all else? Why?

Be responsible and cautious, even in the most safe circumstances or conditions, because you never know what might happen, and how significantly the result of not doing so, would impact you.

Write down a pledge that you will commit to when you start driving. Why did you pick these things to commit to? How will you stick to these commitments?

  • I will try my utmost to be a cautious and responsible driver
  • I will never make decisions that put other drivers or passengers in danger
  • I will always abide by road rules

I pledged to commit to these specific statements as they are the most relevant and important commitments that may impact a person negatively if not considered.

Road Safety Issue

Why is it an issue for young people?

(Statistics – age, gender, rural or metro, trends, government focus…)

People, and particularly youths typically don’t think of the minimal contributing factors that can cause deaths on our roads, and so it is important that this is brought to their attention even if in small ways, such as this poster

Sources of Information

Why is this source reliable for young drivers to refer to?

Statistics have been researched and sourced from reliable government websites.

Aim of the Campaign

What results do you want to achieve?

(A reduction in road fatalities and injuries due to…)

To simply bring awareness to the topic and how fatigue kills people, when all that needed to be done to prevent these deaths, is to rest, or take breaks while driving.

Key Information

What information does the target group need to know?

(Statistics, effects on the body, ways to stay safer…)

The fact that this certain factor of influence (being fatigue) can and will lead to deaths. The overconfident youthful drivers seem to misconceive the fact that all that needs to be done, is to have some rest, to avoid deaths.

The Safety Message or Slogan of the Campaign

What is it? Why is this message going to suit young people?

We simply decided to add a piece of statistics in bold, beneath the image of the cars crashing to make sure that that is the very first thing that is seen by the readers or target audience. It suits our target audience as it is a simple and clear way to convey the clarity of the fact that fatigue kills, with statistics that have been sourced from a reliable government website.

Medium to be Used

What is the best way to deliver the message?

(Pamphlet, poster, newspaper or television advertisement targeted at high viewing times, mail out….

Generally a television advertisement is a more advisable and persuasive way of conveying our message as nowadays younger people refer to technology rather than physical pieces of evidence used to speak their message, such as posters or newspapers, etc.

Communication Approach

How will the campaign be presented to engage young people?

(Humour, realistic, portrayal, consequences, role models…)

In a simplistic, clear, and conventional method, that allows youths to comprehend how fatigue kills without creating boredom for our audience, and still conveying our message.

About Me

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My name is Louis, and I am currently in Year 10, at All Saints’ College. My interests are basketball, gaming, chess and animals. I play basketball for my school in a club (All Saints’ Basketball), I enjoy playing interactive, multiplayer games with some of my friends. As for my interest in animals, it is something that I find to be captivating and educational, when you are able to observe how each species of animal behaves. This is a passion I had always hoped to pursue in the future.

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My values are that of self-awareness, empathy, kindness, organisation, and respect. During my part-time job as a cashier these values often need to be employed in order to ensure efficiency of work, yet at the same time allow for it to be an enjoyable experience, rather than one of boredom.

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In school my favourite subjects are maths and physical education (PE). I find maths to be fascinating and interesting due to the many different ways you are able to comprehend and approach certain questions. Physical education is also something everyone generally enjoys, as it is a time to appreciate playing interactive sports with your friends.

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As mentioned previously, a job I would like to pursue in the future would be in relation to animals. This may be, becoming a veterinarians, zoologist, biologist, and the branch continues to expand. I suppose though that the main occupation I am interested in is becoming a vet. The qualifications for this job is a Bachelor of Science which takes a total of 5 years to accomplish.

The following courses I will be doing for Year 11 and 12 are; Maths Methods (ATAR), Biology (ATAR), Chemistry (ATAR), English (ATAR), Economics (ATAR), and finally, Accounting and Finance (ATAR).

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Science Engineering Challenge

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Team Members: Joshua Conigliaro, Patrick Jones, Lehan Hendeniya

Across the world people are faced with the problem of earthquakes and the mass amount of deaths, and destruction of infrastructure that they bring upon countries. Engineers are constantly trying to find ways to resolve this problem and make it more safe for individuals that live closer to tectonic boundaries where earthquakes have a higher chance of striking (such as that of Japan). As a part of the engineering challenge we are positioned to be these “engineers”.

We were tasked with creating a structure that would withstand a simulated earthquake, using only pasta and blu-tac to build our prototypes. Given a total of $60 to spend on our materials for our structure, being, $1 for 10cm’s of pasta and $1 for 1 gram of blu-tac. We hoped to have built a structure that meets the given limitations of our challenge but also is able to make the structure able to resist the earthquake simulation and stop it from falling over. The chances of succeeding and creating an earthquake proof structure are substantially high so long that we have a stable design and have created multiple prototypes that have been tested in order to know what aspects can be improved of the structure.

We had shuffled through multiple sketches and designs to find something that would be relatively stable enough to survive the earthquake simulation. As can be shown below are the many designs that we were considering building for the challenge, varying in complexity and appearances.

#1 Prototype
#2 Prototype
#3 Prototype
#4 Prototype
#5 Prototype

Through the five images inserted one would think that we would have succeeded in all the earthquake simulations. Which can be said for our initial testing of our first prototype, but when it came to our second prototype that was supposed to have had refined aspects, (width of base to be continued from top to bottom rather than a spire used to reach the maximum height and to have used less material) the structure had unfortunately failed the simulation, as what was supposed to have been “improvements” actually made the structure less stable when attempting to increase the height of the structure and make it more visually appealing.

To the left is a video of how our first testing went compared to that of our second testing of our prototype which was unfortunately not recorded.

Changes that could have been made during the engineering process of the second prototype could have been to spend more time contemplating the actual design of the structure and having made it more simple, as I felt that we, as a group rushed into constructing the structure than potentially being able to find a more suitable design that stood a better chance of surviving the simulation. As giving up the chance of a more stable structure for something that appears to be more complex and aesthetically pleasing was clearly not the right choice. Although given the fact that the majority of the groups had failed the testing is reason in itself that the second simulation had been scaled up a factor in terms of its difficulty to succeed with the given structure that we had designed.

Each team member I felt had contributed significantly throughout the whole of the engineering challenge. Joshua having done extremely well in the design, engineering and research process, and I’d say one of the most valuable members of our team, Patrick having done particularly well in the design and research process, and Lehan putting in his effort in the building and researching process. I myself had attempted to help during the construction process of our first and second prototype, adding research for our designs, and helping the team by giving advice on some of the answers in stile.

2021 Outdoor Ed – Lock

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Climbing:

The first day of camp included rock-climbing and abseiling. Although most sections of the quarry – which is the rock wall we climbed on – were very difficult we all had fun even if the weather did not go accordingly with our attitudes. Through this activity we had to use resilience in order to try our best to get to the top.

Bush Cooking:

Prior to camp we had to come as a group to organise what foods we would bring. For snacks, breakfast, lunch and dinner, which surprisingly required little preparation. Thankfully all of the dishes tasted great and we enjoyed every night when we were able to sit around the fire that we had made and cook dinner.

Rafting:

Rafting was overall a fantastic besides the fact that the water was like an ice bath it was fun once again to spend time with our friends and use teamwork to get past the difficult rock barriers while still remaining in the water.

Amazing Race

During the amazing race, the left activity of camp, we heavily relied on teamwork in order to get past the many parts of the amazing race.

Autobiographical Camp Reflection

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Following camp I feel the main capability that I had improved on was leadership. We participated in numerous activities throughout our time in camp to sharpen our many capabilities and were constantly pushed out of our comfort zones. Each capability forming part of our norm in Kalbarri, and in the six days we spent in camp I feel that we had all come out much more advanced in our capabilities and having grown in many ways, whether it’s learning to become a stronger leader, being better at teamwork, or overall becoming more responsible.

There were many cases when we all had to shoulder leadership within our group. Each night we cooked dinner I had to use leadership to direct others within my group and create some form of organisation to prepare our dinner for that standing night. Every night of cooking my confidence was able to grow. Instead of something that I would dread it began to form into something that we looked forward to. Becoming somewhat of a team, and when before we used to finish dinner as the latest group, we were now enjoying our meals as the first group to finish out of the other five. As part of being a leader I had to find other ways to coerce members in my cooking group to be more productive and guide them to ensure we had dinner that night, as they weren’t completely skilful at cooking.

Another time that showcases our adaptation to our new norm through time spent in camp along with the growth of our capabilities was when we had to constantly shift campsites. Our first relocation of sites was haphazard and disorganised. Yet once again through the time spent in camp and as we began to relocate more often, we began to learn that leadership was key to success. I had used leadership to once again guide and organise others to ensure that any spare time that was given to us, we would use to prepare for our next movement.

Materials Tech. Reflection

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Our Woodwork Project:

Throughout our time in Materials Tech. (Woodwork) we have focused most of our time on making our LED Trophy Projects. Which is theoretically an opaque plate of acrylic, clear acrylic and a wooden base combined to make our project, along with our circuits to light our clear acrylic piece. Although it each piece sounds fairly simple when you get into actually focusing on making each and single piece it is very complicated! Throughout the process of making our projects we used a multitude of different machinery, including a laser cutter, multiple types of drills, and saws and much more. Before beginning the actual production of our project we had to draw isometric drawings, of our LED stand, and what it would look like once we finished production. (Isometric drawings being practically a 3-D model of something). Besides the fact that I am not typically the woodworking, machinery type of person, it was extremely fun to experience something new.

Our Finished LED Trophies (Stands)
My Isometric drawing

ZCapabilities used throughout our time in Materials Technology:

Throughout the Materials technology and the process of making our project probably the main and most used capabilities for me, throughout our time at Materials Tech were communication and collaboration. We had to be able to collaborate effectively in order to learn from other’s mistakes, which made the production process of our project much more efficient and or easier. Although the project itself was individual, the process of making our project was made more efficient through collaboration and communication as stated. Some other capabilities that we used were perseverance, planning and creativity. Perseverance was essential when it came time to actually producing our project due to the fact that there were certainly some moments when you had no idea where to go from there, and you had to have perseverance in order to overcome those moments and continue pushing on through the production. Eventually all of us came out with our finished projects. Planning and creativity were both needed due to the fact that in order to make our projects unique we needed to have creativity and planning before beginning our production.

Tim & Louis Statistics Project

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Introduce your research, including what you are studying and provide a rationale for studying it.

We are researching whether or not students, this year were happy with their electives given to them or not, as well as how many people they would prefer in their typical classroom. Both of these topics are important due to the fact that, if the students do not get given electives that they are interested in or passionate about it will most likely lead them to securing a bad future for themselves such as not being able to get a good job. Whereas the second numerical questioning is slightly less relevant although it does show the students perspective on whether they like higher or lower amounts of students in their class.

Comment on the validity and reliability of the research methods used in this project.

Biases may be found for the numerical question: In your opinion, what would be the ideal class size for Maths, English, Science or Humanities? This may be due to the fact that other people may be more “talkative” or communicative than others meaning that the more talkative people would quite obviously choose to have a higher amount of people in their class. As well as this the demographic data may affect the categorical questions depending on their response for what pathway they are headed towards in the future. If they were headed towards the Vocational Education and Training, and then proceeding to go to do ATAR rather than simply doing ATAR, it would be likelier that the people would care less or be happier about what electives they receive.

Numerical Data & Graphs

This graph shows the numerical data presented in the form of a box and whisker plot. The data used in this graph is mentioned below, containing the minimum data, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, and the maximum data. The box and whisker plot shows the Minimum value, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, and maximum value of the data collected from the survey. The frequency shows the recurrence of the preferred class size that has been selected. The most common value or the mode for the numerical data is the grouping of 18 people as it has a frequency of 45 and is much higher than all of the other groupings of students in a class.

Minimum Value: 3

Lower Quartile: 13

Median Value: 18

Upper Quartile: 23

Maximum Value: 38

Question for Numerical Data: In your opinion, what would be the ideal class size for the MESH subjects (Maths, English, Science and Humanities/HASS)?

Frequency Table
Box and Whisker Plot

Categorical Data & Graph

These graphs show the categorical data collected by the year 9 survey for how happy the students were with their elective choices that they were given this year. We have included a two separate pie charts, one with percentages and the other with numbers, a frequency table, and a histogram. The pie graphs show the data collected through sectors , the histogram, the recurrence of the data collected in a more visual way and a frequency table (as you can tell by the name) showing the frequency of the data collected an outlier that is shown through the data in the graph could be the frequency of the somewhat satisfied data collected. This is due to the fact that it’s frequency is significantly higher than all of the other preferences. The most common set of data or mode is the data collected for somewhat satisfied as shown in the histogram it has rocketed above all of the other preferences, although, as mentioned previously, it may be an outlier.

Question for Categorical Data: How satisfied were you with the elective subjects you were given this year?

Histogram
#1 Pie Chart
#2 Pie Chart (Percentages Included)
Frequency Table

Andrew Mallard Case

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The Wronged Man: Andrew Mallard - Australian Story

On Monday the 23rd of May 1994 Andrew Mallard had been wrongfully convicted of murdering Pamela Lawrence in her Flora Metallica jewellery store. Andrew Mallard had come to the polices attention about having attempted burglary and how he had suffered a nervous breakdown while living on the streets, following his breakup with his girlfriend. The principles of justice (as a general statement) should be defined as a baseline ruling on how individuals should be treated “generally” or in a court trial/case. The principles of justice relate and or link to fairness, entitlement and particularly revolve around equality. In this context I will be talking about the right for an individual to have a reasonable appeal, presumption of innocence until proven guilty, and the need for reliable evidence to be presented in a court case.

The right for an individual to have a reasonable appeal. The right to a reasonable appeal refers to when or if an individual’s court case is unsuccessful, that they have a right to have their verdict re-judged so that they may be able to prove themselves innocent of their accused crime, and, as mentioned in the title of the principle of justice, that the appeal should be reasonable. This principle of justice is important due to the fact that, without it people may not be given a “fair”, second chance to prove their innocence. In the Andrew Mallard case this principle of justice was somewhat violated. Andrew Mallard’s first appeal was unsuccessful, although this may either be due to biases or the fact that he may not have presented enough information, as after this appeal, he had appealed once more and had successfully cleared his name, most likely due to the fact that he had found significant evidence in order to back up his verdict. So, this principle of justice had been both somewhat compromised and supported.

Presumption of innocence until proven guilty. This principle of justice means that an individual should be viewed as innocent no matter what their reputation is, what crime they are accused of, and how they present themselves to be. This principle of justice is significantly important because without it biases would have already been made against the accused or for the accused, and it would most likely, either decrease or increase the chance of the accused to be found innocent or guilty of their crime that they have been accused of. In the Andrew Mallard case the police as well as a majority of the public had, unfortunately, already made their mind up that Andrew Mallard was guilty. Leading to him being treated wrongly in the wide public and, as mentioned before, lowering his chances of him being proven innocent, which is extremely relatable towards this court case as Andrew Mallard had been found guilty of murdering Pamela Lawrence, and was sentenced to 20 years in jail in his first court trial. Clearly this principle of justice was violated in the Andrew Mallard court case.

My last principle of justice is the need for reliable evidence to have been presented in the court case. This means that evidence presented in a court case must be reliable in order to make someone, that is accused of their crime to either be guilty or innocent. This is important because without this principle of justice in play the accused may either be made guilty extremely easily with unreliable evidence or innocent, leading towards the fact that an innocent man could be put in jail, or a murderer (as an example) could be left free to walk in the public. In the Andrew Mallard case, the prosecution (alongside with the police) had presented manipulated evidence in the case with a recorded tape that will be explained in more detail later on. This recorded tape had most likely been used in the court trial in order to make Andrew Mallard even likelier to have been the murderer of Pamela Lawrence, which, is a complete miscarriage of justice. As mentioned in the previous context the “tape” that had most likely been presented in the court trial, was a recorded interview after Andrew Mallard had befriended an undercover officer that had purposely fed him information, so that when it had come time for him to have been recorded in a police interview (following having been interviewed before, without being recorded) he had appeared to have been guilty. Clearly this principle of justice had been violated. Though even with unreliable evidence, that had caused him to have been sentenced to jail for 20 years. He had managed, somehow, to have his name cleared and had been released from jail after 12 years in jail. The evidence shown shows this principle of justice to have been compromised.

With almost 15 years of Andrew Mallards life gone due to many miscarriages of justice, and lots of misleading evidence he had finally been released, though the saddest part, was, just after having a received a monetary compensation of $3.25million from the WA government and having moved to LA to start a new life he had unfortunately been murdered in a hit and run. The true murderer of Pamela Lawrence had been found to have been Simon Rochford who was serving time in jail for having murdered his girlfriend. His fingerprints had been found on a display cabinet in Pamela Lawrence’s jewellery store as well as paint shavings on Pamela Lawrence’s body belonging to Simon Rochford’s knapsack bag.

To summarise, the 3 principles of justice stated, all were violated, significantly, besides a principle of justice that was both protected and violated. And, as mentioned before, somehow Andrew Mallard had cleared his name and proven himself to have been innocent. Which goes to show that nowadays people (generally)          should be more careful whether the accused is “truly” guilty or innocent of their crime that they have been accused of.

Eportfolio

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What did you find challenging in group work and what capabilities helped you get through it?

During a collaborative science assessment about weathering and erosion, Ms Taylor (our science teacher) put us in groups of about 3-4 people. Some people were put in groups that they agreed with, others, not. Unfortunately, I was one of the people that were in a group I disagreed with. The two main capabilities that I used to get through this assessment were resilience and collaboration. Resilience refers to when I was able to push on through the problems that our group came face to face with, and, collaboration was also a vital capability needed because without collaboration you are not able to interact with other people in your group to get your views across.

My Response to the Covid-19 Crisis

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2020 in my opinion has been the most unusual time in my lifespan, I never expected a global pandemic to suddenly come out of nowhere and spread globally all over the world, though this tough time was an important for some of us to learn new things.

Personally, I learnt to take hygiene more seriously and to be more aware of my surroundings, though I noticed other people did that same too.

In terms of my family, I learnt that they had become more aware of the corona-virus and continuously reminded me to, for example to wash my hands.

In terms of my community, I learnt that people had become more generous and kind during the crisis generally just changing their behavior, some for good some for bad for example when people would fight over toilet paper and other “necessities” in the shops.

Corona-virus is a tough time, but together we have learnt to get through it and will continue doing so, people have changed their behaviors and habits to adapt to this crisis and though it has caused some casualties we have learnt from those mistakes.