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Campus 06 Shenzhen Daily Wednesday October 25, 2017Email: [email protected]
深圳（南山）中加学校举办第七届全球心理健康日活动 帮助学生应对压力
What happens when you take several hundred rubber bands and wrap them around a watermelon? An explo-sion! The strength of each rubber band squeezes the watermelon until eventually the cumulative pressure causes the melon to burst. Students from the Shenzhen (Nanshan) Concord College of Sino-Canada (SCCSC) conducted this experiment last week on the seventh SCCSC Global Mental Health Day with the aim of expe-riencing how stress can impact our bodies.
Themed as “Balance Better, Stress Less!,” various stress-releasing activities were held during the students’ break time throughout the day, including a fundraiser
“Funducation” fair, the Peer Buddies class on mental health and relaxation workshop and a movie.
The Funducation fair was popular as always. In addi-tion to the watermelon experience, interactive games and booths for increasing awareness about mental health and ways to cope with stress were organized.
Over 50 students gathered for the water balloon throw-ing fundraiser in which the students purchased water balloons to throw at their teachers. Eleanor Rao, director of the Personal Development Center (PDC) at SCCSC, was thrilled to see both Chinese and foreign teachers participating so enthusiastically in this event.
The Stress-o-meter booth investigated common stress-ors in students’ lives and offered stress management ideas. “Stress is an inescapable part of life, and it’s crucial
to learn how to manage stress,” said Rao.DIY balloon stress balls and DIY balance bottles
let students make their own functional stress relief devices. “The DIY balance bottle is my favorite sec-tion,” said Grade 10 student Guo Zhenzhen, adding this was her fi rst time participating in an event about mental health.
“SCCSC commits to holding the Global Mental Health Day every year,” said Rao. SCCSC wants students at the school to learn about mental health and develop their own stress management strategies.
Mental health requires long-term care, according to Rao. “If students feel they are overwhelmed with stress and wouldn’t be able to deal with it, we are always here to offer them help and build coping mechanism.”
High school holds stress reduction activities for students
As app-based bikes are taking cities by storm, more and more commuters choose to ride to work. However, safety concerns are also on the rise as accidents often happen.
Two young makers, Zhou Yichen and Yuan Hao from Liyuan Elementary School in Futian District, offered their solution by inventing an intelligent helmet for the safety of bike riders, and with it they won the fi rst prize at the 2017 Shenzhen Student Maker Festival.
Before third grader Zhou and fourth grader Yuan put their hands to the helmet, they googled 20 road accidents related to bicycles and found that the most common causes of accidents are poor lighting condi-tions, making sudden turns without signaling and rear-end collisions.
In order to solve these problems, they hoped to make an intelligent helmet that could guarantee riders’ safety. And their dreams came true.
Fitted with tilt sensors and LED lights, the helmet they invented will light up as people lean forward while riding. Similarly, the turning signals will automatically light up as riders make turns; therefore, they will feel much safer when riding at night.
To avoid rear-end collisions, the ultrasonic sensor and buzzer enable the helmet to sound an alarm whenever there is an approaching vehicle behind.
Upon hearing the alarm, riders will slow down, thus
reducing rear-end collision possibilities.When riders get injured, they can press a button on
the helmet which will send out an SOS signal. The GPS sensor on the helmet will help rescue workers locate the injured as quickly and precisely as possible.
As multifunctional as the helmet is, Zhou Yichen admitted that the helmet should continue to be improved. “The helmet is not perfect and we will keep improving it to make riders feel safe,” Zhou said, adding that there are too many sensors on the helmet which makes the helmet too heavy and the SOS button only allows close-distance help.
In the future, they will install a bluetooth answering
function that will make other riding partners’ voice audible when calling for help.
In addition, they hope to install solar panels or a small fan on the helmet to save energy and incorporate a heath management feature that helps riders keep track of their heart rates and exercise frequency in real-time. (Yang Mei)
Pupils win top prize at maker festival福田小学生研发出一键呼救骑行头盔，获创客比赛头奖
Flea marketChildren go to a fl ea market at Nantian Community, Futian District on October 21. Sun Yuchen
Students make the watermelon experiment. Students are ready to throw water balls to their teachers as part of the stress-releasing activities. Nan Nan
The two young makers and the helmet they created. SD-Agencies