Collaborative Sciences Project 2025

The 2^nd-4^th of June our 50 students from 2i had their mandatory Collaborative Sciences Project where their Group 4 teachers in biology, chemistry and physics supervised student projects under the title ”Mythbusters”. The concept is that 10 groups, each of five students representing all three sciences, discuss a popular myth that they want to test. In just 10 hours the groups then design a set-up to test the myth, gather and analyse data, and produce a poster representing their work. Eventually the posters are presented by each group, and each member of the winning team receives a Niels Bohr Award and a package of licorice pipes.

Besides being a mandatory part of their education, The Collaborative Sciences Project is a possibility for our IB students to work in new student constellations and thereby exchange ideas and skills obtained from the three sciences represented at Nørre Gymnasium’s IB Diploma Program. It also gives them the ability to work very effectively under very limited time constraints, which will help them much when they do their larger Extended Essays and Internal Assessments.

This year we had students testing all kinds of myths ranging from ”Does toast always land butter side down?”, ”Can noone hear you scream in space?” and ”Does caffeine improve IB-students’ response time?”.

It was no easy task to select the three best presentations, but the teachers agreed on:

1^st place: Anastasiia A., Mariana, Sofia V., Demian and Hanna investigating the question ”Are bananas really radioactive?”.

2^nd place: Anastasiia P., Nikol, Vid, Yan and Olesia working on the project ”Does a projectile shot horizontally falls at the same rate as a projectile dropped vertically?”

3^rd place: Leo, Priyansh, Mahad, Amir and Nima working on the question ”How do varying concentrations of salt affect the speed at which water heats and its specific heat capacity when heated in a microwave oven?"