tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31166268646849555482024-03-05T20:56:33.072+08:002017 SunburST Make-a-thonA blog to document the 2017 SunburST Make-A-Thon, an event organised by the School of Science and Technology, Singapore (SST), and supported by Singapore Technologies Endowment Programme (STEP)Karen Teohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01861059217158470143noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116626864684955548.post-48939176232488358442017-06-02T09:21:00.002+08:002017-06-02T09:21:23.653+08:00Presentation Venues for Day 3 Preliminary Round<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116626864684955548.post-87369969617801924502017-05-29T14:20:00.000+08:002017-05-30T11:06:58.449+08:00Project Overview<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This competition </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">for upper primary students (Primary 4 to 6/ Grades 4 to 6) aims to seed and nurture students' interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, Aesthetics and Mathematics (STEAM) content areas through a maker-centric competition. This would be supplemented with learning journeys to various organisations and role-specific training. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Students form teams of 5. Each member will adopt either one of the following roles:</span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Leader</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">: the team leader who ensures that project are on task</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Designer</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">: designs the model/prototype; ensures media collaterals are purposefully designed</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: medium;">Maker</b><span style="font-size: small;">: ensures that the idea is seen through its physical model/prototype</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: medium;">Coder</b><span style="font-size: small;">: comfortable with basic coding; able to integrate requirements from the designer and maker</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: medium;">Marketer</b><span style="font-size: small;">: marketing a compelling sales pitch of the product idea</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A brief overview of the competition is as follows:</span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Day 1 (<b>Wed, 31 May</b>): </b>Differentiated Learning Journeys for each participant within their team, based on their roles. This would be followed by differentiated training session@SST.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Day 2 (Wed, 1 June): </b>Teams come together to work on the specific challenge brief, which will be revealed on that day. It would be supplemented by consultation sessions with their trainers, to ensure that students are still guided in their ideation and making processes </li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Day 3 (Thurs, 2/6): </b>Judging for each strand /theme to be done concurrently, followed by an overall judging component at the Auditorium, i.e. the grand finals.</li>
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<b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">CHALLENGE BRIEF</span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Based on the given strand that has been assigned to the participating teams, the challenge is for the teams</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> to work collaboratively to produce a model or a prototype by the end of the 3 days. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The team needs to work collaboratively in coming out with a feasible solution to the identified problem/s or challenge/s, and then work on coming out with a model or/and a prototype. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The team would then pitch this to a panel of judges in the initial stage of the pitching session. Winners from each strand will be moving on to the grand finals to pitch the a group of invited judges from the industry.</span></span><br />
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