NO FEAR - Rawda

It was so painful to continue without you Sami💔. You were the young innovative spirit of the team. We can’t forget your Big Smile when they announced our qualification to the Open International Championship. We can’t forget your enthusiasm, your plans to upgrade the work, your faith in our victory. You gave us the strength to continue the hard work we started together and yes we did it. We did it just for you. You are the WORLD CHAMPION SAMI❤️❤️❤️.
With all our love, you will always be in our heart, on our mind, as we always say, until we meet again in a better place.

No Fear Team 💪💪💪
4th place on the overall worldwide ranking in the international Robotics competition and champions of Gracious Professionalism.
CONGRATS Rawdaaaaaaa 💪💪💪💪
We did it For you SAMI 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

Microbes: a major problem in space

Space is a dangerous, unfriendly place. Isolated from family and friends, exposed to radiation that could increase your lifetime risk for cancer, a diet high in freeze-dried food, required daily exercise to keep your muscles and bones from deteriorating, a carefully scripted high-tempo work schedule, and confinement with three co-workers picked to travel with you by your boss.

Microbes in space are a major problem for astronauts. NASA has learned that the ecosystem inside the spacecraft plays a big role in everyday astronaut life. Microbes can change characteristics in space, and microorganisms that naturally live on your body are transferred more easily from person to person in closed habitats like the space station. Your stress hormone levels are elevated and your immune system is altered, which could lead to increased susceptibility to allergies or other illnesses, and disease.

Microorganisms are well known for their capabilities to withstand extreme environmental conditions such as elevated temperature, high salinity, hydrostatic pressure, and toxic compounds. Scientists have discovered that these microorganisms behave quite differently in space when they are completely isolated from the rest of the biosphere and experience greatly reduced gravity (microgravity) and increased exposure to solar radiation.
Whatever lives on us, hitches a ride to what may be bacterial heaven. One study from November 2016 found bacteria love space. They are even better in forming biofilms, creating higher density population, and may even be more capable of causing disease up there!

Several cautions are currently taken in consideration in order to keep astronauts safe and healthy during their space travel and protect them from diseases caused by pathogens microbes:
1. Cleaning the spacecraft before traveling.
2. Quarantine astronauts to prevent illness before launch.
3. Astronauts should stay clean during the space travel.
4. Monitoring Microbes on the ISS (International Space Station) by using a new device named LOCAD-PTS (Lab-On-a-Chip Application Development-Portable Test System) for rapid detection of biological and chemical substances on surfaces aboard the space station. The study's purpose is to effectively provide a rapid indication of biological cleanliness to help crew monitor microorganisms in the ISS cabin environment. The device’s 15-minute results will enable crews to take appropriate remedial measures to contamination. The device worked, and its applications may expand from monitoring the cabin for contaminants to monitoring crew blood and saliva for medical diagnoses.

But these cautions are not enough. On future deep-space missions where astronauts might spend more time in space and bacteria might have more time to adapt and multiply, the risk of infection could be higher.
Once the immune system starts to weaken, microbes which were previously harmless could make you sick.

Imagine a situation where one astronaut gets infected by a bacteria that you carry in your gut regularly, but becomes pathogenic because of some factor due to space. Usually the recommended therapy is you take an antibiotic to fight that bacteria. But when you do, you would kill most of your bacteria.
How are you going to recover that microbiome once you eliminated most of the bacteria you had in the gut?

تكريم فريق NOFEAR لإنجازاته لموسم 2016-2017

Preparing to travel to london, wish us luck😉

Best of Luck NO FEAR 💪

الروضة تمثل لبنان في البطولة الدولية للروبوتكس
يستعدّ فريق ثانوية روضة الفيحاء للروبوتكس "No Fear" برعاية Fransabank للمشاركة في البطولة الدولية للروبوت في مدينة باث، بريطانيا (FIRST® LEGO® League International Open Championship Bath – England) ممثلاً لبنان في هذه البطولة العالمية من 21 إلى 25 حزيران 2017.
وكان الفريق قد تأهل إلى هذه البطولة بعد إنجازاته في بطولة لبنان للروبوت التعليمي التي جرت في شهر آذار 2017.
والجدير بالذكر أن فريق الروضة قد شارك أكثر من مرة في مسابقات على مستوى العالم العربي وحقق العديد من الإنجازات، وإن شاء الله، سوف يفتح المجال أمامه من خلال هذه المسابقة، للتألق في أول بطولة عالمية للروبوتكس تشارك فيها الروضة.

أعضاء الفريق (من اليمين إلى الشمال):
سعد فتال، بشير كباره، مريم لاغا، رغد الفلو، مريم فتال ومازن حمصي.
بانتظار دعمكم وتشجيعكم.
روضويون ونفتخر...

مبارك فوز فريق روضة الفيحاء للروبوت بالمركز الأول عن فئة البرمجة في مسابقة الروبوت الوطنية السابعة FLL (First Lego League) وتأهله للمنافسة في قطر في البطولة العربية العاشرة.

كل التوفيق لفريق الروضة وإلى مزيد من التألق والنجاح.

أعضاء الفريق: مازن حمصي، مريم لاغا، سعد فتال، مريم فتال، رغد الفلو، بشير كبارة.
إشراف : أ. ابراهيم فتال، أ. فرح زيني

Tomorrow is the Big event, FLL Lebanon Championship, stay tuned and wish us Luck😉
GO NO FEAR!!!!

Living with deaf cat:
Cats may be born deaf, suffer an illness that causes permanent or temporary hearing loss, or lose their sense of hearing gradually as they age. Whatever the cause, deaf cats need special care and attention. Of course, they can still enjoy a full and happy life. Cat parents of deaf cats should get an accurate diagnosis and then take steps to accommodate their pet’s disability.
“Hereditary deafness is a major concern in white cats, and even more so, if one or both of the irises are blue in color,” according to Cat Watch and the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Inherited congenital deafness is caused by degeneration of the auditory apparatus of the inner ear and may affect one ear (unilateral) or both ears (bilateral).
Breeding studies have defined the relationship between deafness in white cats and blue eye colour. The gene responsible is an autosomal dominant gene termed W (for White). This gene appears to be pleiotropic – ie, it has more than one effect, being responsible for the white coat colour and also blue eyes and deafness.
Research has shown that 65 to 85 percent of pure white cats with two blue eyes are hearing impaired. That drops to 40 percent if the cat has one blue eye and 17 to 22 percent if the cat is pure white but does not have blue eyes, according to Cat Watch.
A cat going deaf shows several signs:
1. A cat with severe hearing loss doesn’t show that normal “cat reflex” when there’s a loud noise.
2. She may also seem disoriented or walk unsteadily.
3. She is unresponsive to everyday sound.
4. She has a very loud meowing.
5. She is not responding to her name when you call.
Unfortunately, congenital deafness is irreversible.

فريق NO FEAR بطل العرب في برمجة الروبوت في مسابقة FLL (First Lego League) لموسم 2015-2016.

Work Hard in Silence, let Success make the noise!