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Charity Fair Project Blog: Victor N. 8B Above : Our Charity Fair Trifold (Created in Elective) Summary To start off, this is my second and last Charity Fair in the AdVENTURE program. My group, Riccardo, Sohini, and I chose to help World of Children charities, by making fortune cookies. I learned that we should always work as a team, whether we are at school or at home. When we were looking for the charity statistics, we learned that not all charities will post past tax and revenue information. While working on the test product, we learned that we needed to change our unit of measurements, from ounces to tablespoons. Personally, I have learned so much from doing this project, from choosing a charity, finding different costs and statistics, thinking of an item to make, making a test product, presentations, and to putting all the money into a special cause. I learned one big thing, Practice Makes Perfect . Backward-Looking During this project, we have encountered minor problems...

Should We Bring Back Extinct Species? by: Victor N. 8B Heard of de-extinction? De-extinction is the process of resurrecting dead species. Now, why are we even thinking of bringing back extinct species? Isn't it humanity the reason why some species are extinct? Isn't over-population the reason for global warming? So if you bring extinct species back, aren't you populating the Earth even more? We shouldn't bring back extinct species, because the risk of hurting the environment is much higher than improving it. Scientists are working together to bring back extinct species through DNA, cloning, breeding, and genome editing. In the Reawakening Extinct Species article (source 4), scientists used the cloning method to bring create a bucardo kid. They transferred the nucleus of cells into different cells and used electricity to grow embryos. Unfortunately, the bucardo kid died few minutes after its birth. Using this method, the chances of the bucardo kids surviving...

Weekly Blog : Victor N. 8B Image Location : Source 2 Summary De-extinction is the process of resurrecting dead species. Scientists are working together to bring back extinct species through DNA, cloning, breeding, and genome editing. They are using lots of money to use de-extinction to bring back dead species, like the woolly mammoth as shown in the picture above. In the Reawakening Extinct Species  article (source 4), scientists used the cloning method to bring create a bucardo kid. Unfortunately, the bucardo kid died few minutes after its birth. They also used the cloning method to bring back frogs, that became extinct because of chytrid fungus. In the We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct Species  article (source 3) Steph Yin said, woolly mammoths can theoretically  “punch down the snow in the winter time allowing cold air to come in and in the summertime, they would knock down trees which are very absorbent and release the grasses.” In conclusion, de-extinction is...