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THE INNOMAKERS PROGRAMME
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By Ms Pennie Ong
The Innomakers Programme is an innovative, studentcentred approach that promotes experiential learning and cultivates curiosity and creativity. The programme encourages students to use Design Thinking to empathise, design a prototype, and create realworld solutions, strengthening 21st century competencies like Adaptive Thinking, Inventive Thinking and Communication.
2025 NOI Competition
The Singapore National Olympiad in Informatics is modelled after the International Olympiad in Informatics( IOI). It is a five-hour session in which each contestant is required to individually solve and program a solution to about five programming tasks. It was held at the National University of Singapore School of Computing. The programming languages used are Python and C ++. These students were challenged to design creative solutions to programming problems while working within a tight time constraint.
Digital Making Activities: Students utilise technology and digital tools for design, creation and innovation, including coding, 3D modelling, AI and robotics. This enhances digital literacy and technological skills.
THE INNOMAKERS PROGRAMME
Analogue Making Activities: Students engage in handson creation with physical materials and tools like cardboard modelling, 3D printing and building mechanical prototypes with micro-controllers. It fosters spatial reasoning, fine motor skills, craftsmanship and material understanding. from left: Nguyen Pham Huu Binh( silver), Reynard Jamjan( silver), Nguyen Vi Quan( silver), Bui Tan Dung( finalist) and Louis Anderson Yapendi( finalist)
The National Design Project is a design event for youths to raise the appreciation of design and design as a process for creative problem solving. The brief for this project is to use Design Thinking to address the theme, Design for Wellness. Team Trailblazing Thinkers were awarded the Certificate of Distinction in the National Design Project 2023.
What is this project about?
The Hive 5 is a social community centre catering towards the elderly community in Toa Payoh. The centre gives them a sense of independence by making them feel more integrated with the larger community of Toa Payoh.
Through their research, consisting of Toa Payoh residents’ survey and a site visit to the Toa Payoh Community Centre, they realised the growing problems of the elderly feeling excluded in their local communities. During the learning journey to the Nutrinest Apiary,