(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
The American School of Doha (ASD) officially opened the High School Greenhouse and recognised the Jassim Hamad Bin Jassim Charitable Foundations (JHJ) for their financial contributions to make this possible.
In 2013, the JHJ Foundation made a donation of QR700,000 to the American School of Doha towards the construction of a new greenhouse to aid in the development of the High School Environmental Science and Biology units and provide an exclusive facility to house plants for student projects.
Environmental Science students are currently transplanting their vegetable seedlings from the Greenhouse to their outdoor Gardens, while APES students are using the Greenhouse to do their experiments on soil structure and temperature. AP Biology Students are investigating the effects of various environments (wind, hot, humid, control) on plant transpiration rate using Marigold flowers.
This is a 3-week project and student analysis of the data will include regression analysis and discrete variable bar graphing. The greenhouse provides a wonderfully controlled environment for this excellent research.
Sheikha Noor Al Subaie, representative for the Jassim Hamad Bin Jassim Charitable Foundations, attended the ribbon cutting ceremony where she spoke with the students from the High School Environmental Science class who utilise the facility. 'We are delighted to have the greenhouse for our programmes and students, said ASD Director, Dr Tom Hawkins.
'We have no words to express our gratitude to H E Sh. Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani, Sheikha Noor Al Subaie and the Jassim Hamad Bin Jassim Charitable Foundations enough for this opportunity. Few schools have such a facility in which to learn and grow and with our instructor's, expertise, we feel we can use the facility in the best ways possible for our students. ASD appreciates the support from the Jassim Hamad Bin Jassim Charitable Foundation.
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