Tinkventor Camp 2019: Registration

Designing the future with Computational Tinkering and Design Thinking. 

Tinkventor Camp is a 3-Day camp that uses the Art of Tinkering to combine with the Design-Thinking process to create solutions to real life scenarios. Together with Dialogue with Time exhibition, this camp will focus on Computational Tinkering, diving deeper through prototyping and iteration of their solutions. Using these inventor skills, young tinkventors will come up with designs to accommodate an ageing society.

 

ABOUT THE TWO EXHIBITIONS IN SCIENCE CENTRE SINGAPORE:

1. The Tinkering Studio is an immersive exhibition space that encourages creative learning and exploration through a hands-on journey of fun experimentation.
2. Dialogue with Time is an exhibition about the art of ageing which is led by a senior guide above the age of 65 who will share his/her life story and facilitate a “happy ageing” discussion.

 

TARGET AGE GROUP: 9 – 12 years old

DATES: 18 – 20 March 2019 (Monday – Wednesday)

DURATION: 3 Days, 9.30am – 4.30pm

COST: $400 per participant (excluding 7% GST)

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: Minimum pax is 15 | Maximum pax is 20

ITINERARY

Day 1: Introduction to Computational Tinkering

TIME	DESCRIPTION
9.00 am	Welcome to Science Centre Singapore
9.30 am	Paper Circuitry and Chibitronics   Using copper tapes, LED and coin battery, re-discover electricity; explore switches, parallel and series circuitry. Blending circuit building and programming with self-expression, Chibitronics will be introduced as an additional tool.
12.30 pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Creative Coding Writing coding scripts using micro:bit* to make a motion sensor, game controller or musical instrument has never been more fun and easy.

* Please bring along your own set of micro:bit. This is an advanced micro:bit workshop. 

Day 2: Design Thinking Process (Part 1)

TIME	DESCRIPTION
9.00 am	Welcome to Science Centre Singapore
9.30 am	Dialogue with Time exhibition tour Break the cliché stereotypes of our seniors. Get to the heart of the target audience to fully understand whom we will be designing the future for.
12.30 pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Ideation and Prototyping (Part 1) Learning various brainstorming techniques, we will be ideating for solutions and making our first prototypes

 

Day 3: Design Thinking Process (Part 2)

TIME	DESCRIPTION
9.00 am	Welcome to Science Centre Singapore
9.30 am	Implementation and testing Applying coding, what type of prototyped solutions can we come up with?
11.30 am	Lunch
12:30pm	Prototyping (Part II) Continuation of prototyping.
3:00pm	Showcase Exhibition  Our tinkventors will showcase their prototypes to create an inclusive future for our silver generation.
4.00pm	Certificate Presentation

 

To register, e-mail a copy of the completed Booking Form to Ms Illi at Illi_Suraya_MOHD_RAZALI@science.edu.sg .

Hope to tinker with you soon!