Project Orion VIII

Greetings Fellow Brother and Sister Scouts! Today we have wonderful news from our very own shores here in Singapore. About 100 hawksbill turtle eggs have hatched at East Coast Park on the 12th of November 2017. The eggs were laid by a female hawksbill turtle back in August of 2017 and we are pleased to there that the turtles hatched and made it safely into our waters. Read more about the exciting news here! http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/around-100-hawksbill-turtle-eggs-successfully-hatch-at-east-9400228 Yours in Scouting Team Orion VIII

Greetings Brother and Sister Scouts! On the 26th of August we had our post event for Project Orion VIII. The event was hosted by Team Orion VIII and we conducted a day full of activities for the Cub Scouts of 5 different schools. (North View, Mee Toh, De La Salle, Rosyth, Kheng Cheng) We began the day by having small icebreakers between each unit and one patrol mentor from Team Orion VIII. Members of Team Orion VIII getting to know the Cubs Zachary breaks the ice with North View Cub Scouts Andrew in the midst of an icebreaker with the De La Salle Cub Scouts Ryan introducing himself to the Mee Toh Cub Scouts Keith talking to Rosyth Cub Scouts Kar Mun interacting with the Kheng Cheng Cub Scouts After that, we had a sharing done by Bryan and Aadhithya regarding what Project Orion is about to the participants. The sharing consisited of what we did over there in terms of both turtle conservation and immersing ourselves into the culture there. T

Greetings Fellow Brother and Sister Scouts! Here's some good news regarding green turtles in Long Beach at the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles, USA. It is regarding how the green turtles have managed to find new homes at Long Beach! Read more about the exciting news here! http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-green-sea-turtles-20170805-story.html Yours in Scouting Team Orion VIII

Greetings Fellow Brother and Sister Scouts! Here's an article regarding the Olive Ridley Turtle! Back in May, an Olive Ridley Turtle returned to its home in Orissa, the Eastern coast of India to lay its eggs. Read more about the exciting news here! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39881606 Yours in Scouting, Team Orion VIII

Greetings Fellow Brother and Sister Scouts! Today we have some good news! Just a few days ago, 100 loggerhead turtles hatched for the first time after 30 years at Key West Beach in Florida, USA! Read more about the exciting news in the article below! https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/florida/articles/2017-07-14/turtles-hatch-on-key-west-beach-for-first-time-in-30-years Yours in Scouting, Team Orion VIII

Greetings fellow Brother and Sister Scouts! As promised, today we have an article about a turtle. In fact, we have an article about a really brave turtle. This turtle was happily swimming around while a tiger shark slowly snuck up on it. What happened to the turtle? Well click on the article to find out more! http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/624844/animal-attack-shark-turtle-video-fight-death-footage Yours in Scouting, Team Orion VIII

We have come to the end of our 2 week project here in Kampong Mangkok, in Situ, Terengganu. Over the course of our 2 weeks here, we have impacted the lives of many, from the lives of the people to even the lives of turtles. We have released many turtle hatchlings over the 2 weeks, recovered close to 500 eggs laid by turtles. We have also bettered the community in Kampong Mangkok by improving the lives of 5 people. Mdm Rokiah, by building her a new front porch. Mdm Zainab, by building her a new front porch. Azam, by building him a new front porch. Mdm Zuraina Chik, by building her son a room for a barbershop.   Mdm Rohayu, by building the foundations for her new front porch. Mdm Rosnita, by building the foundations for her new toilet. But that's not all, stay tuned for updates on our post project event and for interesting turtle news! Yours in Scouting, Team Orion VIII

Warm Greetings from Setiu, Terengganu! Our team started off the day by kick starting the construction of Kak Ta's toilet. We spent the first half of today by constructing the toilet. We spent long hours under the hot sun trying to complete as much of the toilet as we could. Although we did not manage to complete the toilet all of us were contempt with the progress we have made over the course of the trip During the second half of the day we prepared to break fast with the villagers by helping them prepare food. The picture below shows Bryan and Andrew preparing caramel pudding kampong style   In a Project Orion First, we conducted an eye check up on the villagers. Below you can see our skilled Optometrist Kar Mun at work  Finally breaking fast with the villagers after a hard day's work This sums up our exciting day   Stay tuned for more Project Orion VIII action!!!

Warm Greetings from Setiu, Terengganu! Our day began once again with a delicious breakfast served hot and fresh at Kak Ta's House, energizing us for the day ahead. After Breakfast we headed over across the road to Zainab's house, where Pak Lam, a local carpenter, helped us out to replace her old, crumbling porch and install a brand new one in its stead. The work was standard and routine: this was our last porch of the trip. The work was surprisingly quick this time; with Pak Lam's help and our prior experience we managed to complete the whole porch much earlier than expected: before lunchtime. Our afternoon was intended to be devoted to building Zainab's porch. We headed back to the Pink House to try flying our Wau kites again. At around 4:00 p.m., we received a call from WWF representatives informing us that we could do a turtle excavation. They picked us up in their truck, and brought us to the turtle hatch

Greeting from Terengganu! We started the day with some scrumptious bee hoon goreng at Kak Ta's house. We then headed off to Rohayu's house to build a porch. Pre-Porch Today's porch building was a bit different as Pak Awang who usually helps us was at another job so he could only drop by to do the measurements for us. When he finished up we began digging holes. As the pillar manufacturer ran out of pillars of a certain height we had order a pillar that was longer than the others. For this pillar we had to dig a deeper hole. We learnt that the difficulty of hole digging increases exponentially with its depth as the distance between you and the bottom of the hole is greater causing you to have to bend down more and carry the dirt a longer distance as well. When we finished digging the hole and put the pillar in we realized that Pak Awang who had left actually wanted us to measure the depth of the hole from the ground and not from the guiding strings that were set-up mea