Welcome to Pratyush Anil

When I first started, I created a few research ideas and topics. My two main ideas were:

• Physics and Tennis

• Microgreens

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To get a deeper understanding of how I could pursue them further I brainstormed and came up with the below ideas:

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Physics and Tennis:

(11th May) 

My Personal Project : How can you play the perfect game of tennis?

Goal: Creating a playstyle of tennis that reduces the physical and mental strain of a tennis player. 

Global context: Scientific and technical innovation- How humans use the understanding of scientific principles

What will I do in this: Tennis is a sport with lots of physical movements. A professional player will move across an 8m x 11m court, holding a raquet while hitting a ball at over 100 Km per hr.

With all this going on, the player will be required to play by the rules of the sport. There are over 13 official rules that are in play during a game, then a few rules that will be in play incase of special events. 

So this sport will put pressure on the player physically and mentally, but how can one reduce that pressure, is my personal project. 

People to ask: 

• Primary source-Coach 

• Secondary- Websites, videos

Things to look into:

• Momentum transfer

• Forces

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Next I did the same for the Microgreens idea, which is as follows:

Microgreens:

12th June 2020

My Personal Project : What are Microgreens ?

Inquiry Question: 

• Different mediums used for growing microgreens and what are their benefits?

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Goal:

The goal of this project is to:

• Learn how to conduct investigation systematically and grow microgreens using 3 different mediums ( soil, non-soil medium (coco coir) , and water) at a time.  Growing your own  microgreens from seed to feed. Create awareness on how to grow healthy, nutrient packed edible plants (microgreens) at home in 5 to 10 days

• Develop awareness of and interest in plants as food: Know what is in your food (No genetically modified organisms or pesticides used). Eat healthier greens which are free from countless toxins

• Evaluate evidence both from my own crop  and from online published materials.  Create a analysis report (compare evidence from self grown crop and already existing results that are published online)

After doing this I had a few meetings with my Supervisor to finalize my Personal project and global context. At the end I chose to look into the global context of ‘Scientific and technical innovation’.

 I started my research from basics such as:

• What are microgreens? 

• How are they grown?

• What are the different mediums used in growing microgreens?

• What seeds can be used in growing microgreens?

• Benefits of microgreens

These questions helped me gain a better understanding of microgreens in general, and enabled me to create an inquiry question ¨ What are the different mediums used for growing microgreens and what are their benefits?¨ As this question ticked a lot of boxes for me, I decided to proceed with it.

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Once I was able to figure out my research question I went on to research online through various different sources both on and offline.