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Evette-KhaziranTranscript
[Music plays and photographs flash through of young students]
[An Australian map and text appears: BHP Billiton Foundation Science and Engineering Awards 2018]
[Images move through of Evette Khaziran walking to her house, Evette reading a book, Evette smiling at the camera and then the camera zooms in on Evette’s eyes]
Evette Khaziran: Hi, my name is Evette Khaziran and I’m in a Year 10 student at Redeemer Baptist School and my project is “A Nesting Box for Sugar Gliders”.
[Camera zooms out to show Evette sitting on a chair with gum trees in the background and talking to the camera and then image changes to show a rear view of Evette walking amongst gumtrees,
Since sugar gliders are uncommon in urban environments because of urbanisation and deforestation, I’ve created a way to help them increase the population, using these nesting boxes.
[Image changes to show a nesting box mounted in a gumtree and the camera zooms in on the nesting box]
And these nesting boxes replace tree hollows in forest areas that have trees that are too young to have developed their own hollows.
[Image changes to show Evette talking to the camera]
So they are providing a home for the sugar gliders, when they don’t have any.
[Image changes to show Evette walking towards the camera and then a back view of Evette looking at the mounted nesting box in the background]
I decided to focus on these sugar gliders because I’ve always had an interest in working with animals and like in future I want to become a veterinarian.
[Image changes to show Evette sitting amongst the gum trees and talking to the camera]
Our cities are developing and we see less and less wildlife each day. But like... like these nesting box can help maintain that population, so we still have those sort of wildlife in our areas.
[Image changes to show night footage of the sugar gliders moving in and out of the mounted nesting boxes]
I’ve just recorded them exiting the box and then returning to the box to like, observe their behaviour, what they’ve done and through my observations I’ve seen, what they eat, how they move around, when they move around, like what they do during the day, what they do during the night. When I was looking through my footage I realised that the sugar gliders were struggling to enter and exit the box because of the way it was designed.
[Image changes to show Evette sitting and talking to the camera]
So I had to make some adjustments, like chamfering the entrance, installing a platform and shortening the lid so they had more access to enter the nesting box.
[Images move through to show Evette walking and looking down, Evette laughing and Evette talking to the camera]
As a kid I would always run around the bush, like to discover new places, like to climb everything. Yeah, you could say I was really curious.
[Image changes to show Evette opening her piano and then the image changes to show a back view of Evette playing the piano and then the image changes to show Evette reading a book on the lounge]
My hobbies are listening to music, playing music on my piano, reading, travelling with family and hanging out with my friends.
[Images move through to show Evette talking to the camera, Evette standing and pointing out an area amongst the gumtrees and then running along a bush path]
Being a finalist is great because it means that my interests are not just my own, they are shared with the wider community. I’m more interested in meeting new people with the same interest like science, science related interests.
[Image changes to show Evette sitting, smiling and talking to the camera]
When I’ve finished school I want to become a veterinarian and maybe start up my own clinic in a rural area. Yeah, science and engineering would definitely like be there in my future. It would help me discover new ways to help other people, as well as help myself in different situations, different problems ‘cause it helps you understand the world around you, and helps you understand our relation to how everything works.
[Music plays and an Australian map and text appears: BHP Billiton Foundation, Science and Engineering Awards, 2018]
[An Australian map and text appears: BHP Billiton Foundation Science and Engineering Awards 2018]
[Images move through of Evette Khaziran walking to her house, Evette reading a book, Evette smiling at the camera and then the camera zooms in on Evette’s eyes]
Evette Khaziran: Hi, my name is Evette Khaziran and I’m in a Year 10 student at Redeemer Baptist School and my project is “A Nesting Box for Sugar Gliders”.
[Camera zooms out to show Evette sitting on a chair with gum trees in the background and talking to the camera and then image changes to show a rear view of Evette walking amongst gumtrees,
Since sugar gliders are uncommon in urban environments because of urbanisation and deforestation, I’ve created a way to help them increase the population, using these nesting boxes.
[Image changes to show a nesting box mounted in a gumtree and the camera zooms in on the nesting box]
And these nesting boxes replace tree hollows in forest areas that have trees that are too young to have developed their own hollows.
[Image changes to show Evette talking to the camera]
So they are providing a home for the sugar gliders, when they don’t have any.
[Image changes to show Evette walking towards the camera and then a back view of Evette looking at the mounted nesting box in the background]
I decided to focus on these sugar gliders because I’ve always had an interest in working with animals and like in future I want to become a veterinarian.
[Image changes to show Evette sitting amongst the gum trees and talking to the camera]
Our cities are developing and we see less and less wildlife each day. But like... like these nesting box can help maintain that population, so we still have those sort of wildlife in our areas.
[Image changes to show night footage of the sugar gliders moving in and out of the mounted nesting boxes]
I’ve just recorded them exiting the box and then returning to the box to like, observe their behaviour, what they’ve done and through my observations I’ve seen, what they eat, how they move around, when they move around, like what they do during the day, what they do during the night. When I was looking through my footage I realised that the sugar gliders were struggling to enter and exit the box because of the way it was designed.
[Image changes to show Evette sitting and talking to the camera]
So I had to make some adjustments, like chamfering the entrance, installing a platform and shortening the lid so they had more access to enter the nesting box.
[Images move through to show Evette walking and looking down, Evette laughing and Evette talking to the camera]
As a kid I would always run around the bush, like to discover new places, like to climb everything. Yeah, you could say I was really curious.
[Image changes to show Evette opening her piano and then the image changes to show a back view of Evette playing the piano and then the image changes to show Evette reading a book on the lounge]
My hobbies are listening to music, playing music on my piano, reading, travelling with family and hanging out with my friends.
[Images move through to show Evette talking to the camera, Evette standing and pointing out an area amongst the gumtrees and then running along a bush path]
Being a finalist is great because it means that my interests are not just my own, they are shared with the wider community. I’m more interested in meeting new people with the same interest like science, science related interests.
[Image changes to show Evette sitting, smiling and talking to the camera]
When I’ve finished school I want to become a veterinarian and maybe start up my own clinic in a rural area. Yeah, science and engineering would definitely like be there in my future. It would help me discover new ways to help other people, as well as help myself in different situations, different problems ‘cause it helps you understand the world around you, and helps you understand our relation to how everything works.
[Music plays and an Australian map and text appears: BHP Billiton Foundation, Science and Engineering Awards, 2018]