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“To Spray or Not To Spray” was my first exploration of my sixth year at Liger. The exploration focused on the pesticides that are being sprayed consistently in Liger school facility in order to get rid of pests. The essential question of this exploration was: should Liger continue to spray Maxxthor and Viper 50EC (both are types of insecticide products) in the campus twice a month? To answer the question, my exploration team had done much research and taken on many field trips to get a deeper understanding of the adverse effect of pesticides and its contemporary usage. We went to interview many agrochemical shops sellers about the pesticides products and their interaction with the customers that are using chemical on crops. Sellers stated that most of their pesticides products are being imported from our neighboring country, Vietnam, and there is lack of education for farmers on how to use them properly. We also took a trip to CEDAC, the Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture organization, and to Snoul in Kratie province. As a result, our exploration had created a digital magazine about pesticides based on our field trips and research on the internet. There are eleven articles in the magazine and each of them talked about a unique topic. In the magazine, I wrote about the non-target organisms, which mainly talked about the organisms that get affected by pesticides unintentionally such as bees, fish, and humans.