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The
Singapore ArtScience Prize
By Lim Boon Siang
The inaugural Singapore ArtScience Prize organised by SJI saw flowering ideas crystallise into innovations that hopefully would transform the world and improve how we live . This , in essence , captures the volatile energy and the infinite possibilities IDEA 2012 , held on 2 June in SJI , in celebration of the possibilities of ideas .
The Singapore ArtScience Prize , graced by Mr Phillip Yeo , Chairman of SPRING Singapore , saw the convergence of Professor David A . Edwards , founder of Le Laboratoire and Art Science Lab and other accomplished professionals including Professor Stave Dixon , President of LaSalle College of the Arts , Dr Shawn Hoon , Research Engineer at A * STAR and Associate Professor Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig , Director , Fraunhofer IDM at NTU . The sharing by these experts in their field was a mind-opener , wowing the 400-strength audience in the Performing Arts Centre with new perspectives , concepts and proximity to the frontiers of modern science .
IDEA 2012 also featured student teams with young and confident innovators presenting their
ideas to a panel of judges , who were impressed with the high quality of the students ’ products . For emerging at the top of their league at the inaugural Singapore ArtScience Prize with their exceptional headphone idea , the SJI team comprising Hubert Yeo ( 303 ), Jonah Tan ( 303 ),
Edwin Lim ( 312 ), Jeremy Soh ( 311 ) and Christopher Low ( 303 ) was rewarded with a week-long trip to Paris . Participants unanimously agreed that the learning derived from their involvement in the inaugural Singapore Art Science Prize was beyond imagination .