DiscoverME@NUS

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Posted on : 10:43 AM | By : Ivan

Day 1- 31 May 2010

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Talk 1- ROPE Robot
Tea Break
Talk 2- Fluid Mechanics and the Weather System
Talk 3- Renewable Energy
Lunch
Talk on design
Tea Break
Check in at Raffles Hall /Dinner /Night program


Day 2- 1 Jun 2010

Competition time!

Check-in + dinner + night activities

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Posted on : 9:47 AM | By : Ivan

After the series of talks, we met up with some of the student helpers, who guided us to the hostel. Our first look at Raffles Hall, looks so much better than NUS High's one. ( shiny windows *ahem*)



Had to wait for a long time before we finally got a room, and at first glance, it really is better than our school's.







After settling down, or just chucking all our bags in the room, we headed to the Yusof Ishak hall to have our dinner. Buffet style (as always). Of all places, why put a buffet right in the middle of the food court??? Sense it makes none.








After the buffet, where our group decided to take sneak photo shots of each other (censored, unfortunately). So much fun, where Ivan and Jun Xiong facepalmmed all the way, haha. We waited patiently at the bus stop. During this boring duration, Melvin decided to play with his super awesome 30 mW laser pointer.


A snail


Followed by a long bus ride, which made us think that we went out of NUS, all the way to some remote place called Prince George Park Residences.

We thought our hostels were great, until we saw this.





We want to cry already. D: Met some of the Pre-U Sem people there, but thats not the point. The point is that we had a "night activity" there!



Looks familiar? These were the items corresponding to the items in the list(above). Honestly, trying to get a mosquito from the blue UV lamp wasn't an easy feat. And we wondered why the student leaders had to make us kill 2 ants... Insect cruelty!


In the end, the student helper declared everyone a winner.... zzz no prizes. No forfeit. Nothing :S


We took a bus back to our hostel and that concluded day 1.


PS - Showering cubicles are awesome! (no pictures to show though)

2nd Teabreak

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Posted on : 7:43 AM | By : Ivan

There always seems to be that only 1 food out of the total 3 food offered to us was enticing. For the 1st teabreak, it was the chicken nugget; for the 2nd teabreak, it was the cheesecake.

The cheesecake had a smooth, creamy cheese layer. Many students tried to take a plate-full of 'em. By the time we wanted to go for a second round, the favourite cheesecake plate was already empty.

Yummy lunch

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Posted on : 7:33 AM | By : Ivan

Our energy were depleted after the 2nd talk and we had to replenish it. There were more food this time and we had a variety of dishes to choose from. There were...
fried rice, chicken, fish, curry, nuggets, tofu and almond n'longan dessert.

All of these were great food that filled up our stomachs. We wanted to eat more, but we decided to resist the temptation and wait for the next teabreak.

Talk 4- "We need a Design!"

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Posted on : 12:08 AM | By : Ivan

This talk was a rather short one- 45 minutes, encompassing a very important point:

THE DESIGN PROCESS


  1. Recognition of need (What do people want?)

  2. Identification of constraints and functions (What does the product do?)

  3. Requirements and specifications (What do we want the product to do?)

  4. Generate solutions (What are the possible designs? What is the best designs amongst this?)

  5. Concept design (How does my design work?)

  6. Prototyping (Does my design really work?)

  7. Detailed design (What are its details? - Engineering Drawings to complement)

We find this design process very interesting, as it goes through the entire journey from conceptualisation to manufacturing. The process eliminates unneccessary time that may be spent on trial and error.


Also, if we had known this method earlier, we might not have performed badly during our Year 1 Innovation Programme, where we had to do similar designing and prototyping. And if Thomas Edison had known this process and done step 2, 3, 4 instead of going straight to step 6 (prototyping), he might have invented the light bulb earlier.


We hope that this method would be useful to us tomorrow during the designing competition, which we hope to win first :D



Design desirables vs design thinking

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