SJI Trio Wins Third Place at IDE Series Competition

IDE (Innovation, Design and Engineering) Series is a national technology and engineering competition aimed to challenge students on problem solving across domains such as electronics, programming, and mechanical design. Comprising of 7 different competition events in 2023, each event has an unknown surprise mission or challenge that will be revealed at the start of the competition. These challenges vary from year to year, but the emphasis on innovativeness, design elements and engineering remains at the heart of the competition. The IDE Series started in 2011 with the IDE Challenge with a total of 11 secondary school teams. Since then, the IDE Series competition event has introduced new competition events including:

• IDE Challenge

• IDE Robotics

• IDE Maker

• IDE Sprint

• IDE Sumobot

• IDE Code Builder

• IDE Code Hacker

On 20 May, SJI was represented by a group of boys from the Design & Innovation Club for IDE Series Competition at UWCSEA (East Campus) and the trio – Elliot Shan Murray Wigmore (MN101), Lo Sheung Chit Chet (FN103) and Gabriel Tan Hong Kai (LE102) won 3rd place in the Sumo Bot Category!