Saturday, September 30, 2017

Young Inventors Challenge (Kuala Lumpur)

The Association of Science, Technology and Innovation (ASTI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) and also non-profit oriented organization working towards empowering young children through various projects such as Science Fair for Young Children (SFYC), Young Inventors Challenge (YIC), Creative and Critical Thinking Camp (CCTC), ASTI Leap Challenge (ALC), Teacher Conference and ASTI outreach programmes. YIC requires teams of up to 5 members to put their minds together and come up with an invention. The purpose of the programme is to build and encourage the creative and inventive capability of young people.

In 2015, SST sent 1 team of 4 students to this competition and achieved 4th placing overall.
In 2017, SST sent 1 team of 2 students to this competition and won the Champion for the Project Paper Writing, winning an award of RM500. Further details of this competition is found here: https://www.asti.org.my/projects/robust-admin-panel/


 

Reflections

BENJAMIN (S3-08)
Participating in the Young inventors challenge here in Kuala Lumpur has been and exciting and eye opening experience, with so many students from all around the world coming to this competition, we made many international friends. During the competition, the judges gave us a lot of feedback on where our project is lacking and how we could improve our project in the future. This feedback is invaluable to us and will help us greatly to improve our current project as well as allow us to not make the same mistakes in my other projects. Even though we did not win the main awards, I learnt a lot from this experiences and wish to participate in similar programs again.

JUSTIN (S3-07)
We participated in the YIC competition in Kuala Lumpur on the 30 of September. We were the only team from Singapore and during the competition, we made many friends from other countries such as Malaysia and Philippines. From this competition, we explored many ways of problem solving and used creative thinking to overcome the difficulties that we faced. In this competition, even though we did not win any of the main awards, we managed to have alot of takeaways on how to improve on our project and report writing skills in general. Hence, this competition was an eye opening experience and I hope to be involved in more of these events in the future.

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