News from the IGS

Pinhole Camera

Posted on27 Jan 2022
As part of the Physics lessons this week, the students in Grades 7 and 9 were taught how to build a pinhole camera by themselves. A pinhole camera functions on simple basic rules of optics and thus makes it possible to experience principles that, for example, contribute to the functioning of the camera’s found on our smartphones. Students in...
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Preparations for Tet

Posted on21 Jan 2022
There has been bustle with dragon costume and drum for weeks, and a tinkling on piano that sounds vaguely like Tet songs. IGS is back on track to celebrate Tet. Grade 8 and 9 boys are busy practicing their dragon dances; classmates improvise drum tattoos; lush ao dai are taken down, shaken and ironed out for the big day....
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Oscillations in Mechanics

Posted on21 Jan 2022
This week, the subject of oscillations was introduced in Class 10 Physics lessons. In order to make the topic more accessible, the students carried out an experiment on the coil spring pendulum. With the help of this experiment, they should have been able to recognize the variables on which the period of oscillation of a coil spring pendulum depends...
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Tet Celebrations at the U6

Posted on21 Jan 2022
Christmas is barely over and the next big celebration is just around the corner: Tet. The festival is an occasion for families, friends and relatives to meet again. Since this is currently only possible virtually, the U6 section has come up with something special and will organise a joint Tet activity every day, where all little “researchers” and “discoverers”...
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