A group of six students from Saint Maur International School recently spent three days at Yokohama Science Frontier High School (YSFH) and took part in their annual Science Immersion Camp.

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The Science Department is proud to announce the name of the Scientist of the Year for the academic year 2015 - 2016. This year's recipient is Youngbin Noh, an extremely motivated and talented student who demonstrated through weeks of hard work that she had what it takes to make a successful researcher.

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The Saint Maur scientists were in for a treat this month as they received a new piece of equipment purchased for them thanks to the support of the Saint Maur International School Parent Support Group.

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The 2016 edition of Saint Maur International School's Middle School Science Fair successfully took place on Friday, May 6th 2016 in the Science Center. After several weeks of planning, hard work, and writing, students from Grade 6 and Grade 7 presented their work to peers, teachers, and parents.

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Grade 11 biologist recently were offered the opportunity to get a first hand impression of what research looks like in the real world. Standard and higher level IB Biology students were invited by the Yokohama Campus of RIKEN, which is Japan's largest comprehensive research institution.

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On the Friday before the last mid-term break, students of Grade 12 took part in one of the major events on the Science calendar: the Group 4 project. The Group 4 project is an interdisciplinary activity in which all Diploma Programme science students must participate. This is the first time for our IB scientists have had to undertake joint research in collaboration with specialists in other sciences.

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Students of Dr Erard's class undertook their first dissection of animal tissue and got to investigate the structure of sheep's lungs. Find out what they discovered!

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The Science Department was very excited this morning when a huge box was delivered containing a new piece of equipment that will help teachers and students to undertake microbiological experiments.

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It is never too soon to start learning about Science and the Montessori Students at Saint Maur International School have already started! Here we see students doing colorful experiments with surface tension and chromatography.

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Students of Dr Suzuki's IB Chemistry class were the first students to undertake the challenging individual investigation that is part of the new IB curriculum. We produced a video to give you a taste of what went on.

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There was a bustling of activity in the Science Center starting at about 1pm on the first day of May as twenty-one groups of sixth and seventh graders set up for the Middle School Science Fair 2015. In addition to the 10+ weeks of research and data collection, the students had devoted many hours designing posters upon which to display their findings. Parents, friends, faculty (and Science Fair judges!) came to view these posters and hear about what each group had discovered. Students from Yokohama Science Frontier High School also attended the event.

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