Josephians Shine at Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) 2021
1 May 2021
Four Josephian teams reached the SSEF final round, with one taking Silver.
Congratulations to our four teams of Josephians who made it to the finalist round at the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) 2021! These four projects were among 366 projects in the Main and Junior Scientist categories that progressed to the final judging round. One of the four projects was awarded a Silver Award at the SSEF.
Lee Rui Kai (LE609), mentored by Dr Sergei in 2020 and Ms Chua Pei Ni in 2021, has been working on his Nanyang Research Project (NRP) project "Magnetic Materials in 2D Spintronics" since April 2020. It was conducted at NTU, in the Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Science, under the supervision of Associate Professor Gao Weibo. For the SSEF competition, Rui Kai partnered with two NRPjr students from River Valley High School to submit one unified project "2D Moire Heterostructure". Their project was awarded a Silver Award at the SSEF.
Three other teams received a Participation award:
Nithil Chakravarthy Thirumurugan, Guhan Venu, and Pook Wei Lun Alexander (all from ML202), mentored by Mr Genesius Chan for their in-house project "Are masks really effective against COVID-19?".
Nguyen Thanh Tin (ML401), Ngo Hoang Nhat Minh (ML401) and Le Hai Long Quan (MN403), mentored by Mrs Lydiawati Wong for their in-house project "Circling Behaviour of a Homopolar Motor".
Kierann Chong (ML611) conducted his Research@YDSP team project "Examining the Efficiency of the Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz and Gauss Sieve Algorithms to Solve the Shortest Vector Problem" together with another student from River Valley High School in DSO National Laboratories. He was mentored by Dr Sergei.
Josephians who also participated in SSEF 2021:
Caden Ho Kin Wah (ML611) participated in Research@YDSP 2020 team project, together with a student from RVHS.
Tran Viet Khoa (ML615) participated in Nanyang Research Programme (NRP) 2020-2021 project.
Shao Junzhe (LE607) participated in Nanyang Research Programme (NRP) 2020-2021 team project, together with a student from VJC.
Teo Li Yang Terence (FN502) and Tristan Tay Yu Hng (LE507) participated in Nanyang Research Programme Junior Researcher (NRPjr) 2020-2021 project.
Benedict Chua Wei An (ML515) and Koon Wei Pheng (LE507) participated in Nanyang Research Programme Junior Researcher (NRPjr) 2020-2021 project.
Cao Peiyuan (ML401), Huang Yixuan (ML401) and Ong Guan Kit Ray (ML401) took part in an in-house SJI project.
