SJI Innomakers Score Distinction at MOE Innovation Challenge
1 March 2022
A Year 2 team won a Certificate of Distinction for a solar tower designed for SJI.
SJI sent seven teams of our Year 2 Innomakers to participate in the MOE Innovation Challenge last year. The challenge was to encourage the students to come up with innovative ideas or products. They developed problem-solving and inventive skills and engage in scenarios based on the UN Sustainable Goals. The teams were exposed to knowledge and experiences beyond the classroom through interaction with innovation mentors from Nanyang Technological University.
One of our teams - Jack Wigmore, twin brothers Ethan Yu and Elliot Yu (all from FN203/2021), was awarded the Certificate of Distinction. Their project named "Ilios Re-Power", is about installing solar panels in SJI in order to reduce energy use in our school. As conventional solar panels would not work as efficiently throughout the day as they could not capture light from all angles, the trio came up with the Solar Power Tower to capture sunlight from all directions throughout the day.
