Tinker Camp November 2022: Registration

The hands-on nature of 2D1N TINKER CAMP brings out the essentiality of science and engineering in everyday settings. Campers will be introduced to working with fundamental tools, hands-on building, drill, handsaw, hot glue gun, laser machine, etc., under the expert supervision of our Chef Tinkerers.

Apart from learning STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) topics, TINKER CAMP builds a foundation of innovation, social scaffolding, and teamwork for these tinkerers who will one day pave a future of collaboration, sustainable living, and confident inventors of society.

In collaboration with San Francisco’s science centre, The Exploratorium, The Tinkering Studio encourages creative learning and exploration.

Things to bring: Sleeping bag, change of clothes (recommended track pants & long sleeves for the night), toiletries & your creative juices.

To register, e-mail a copy of the completed Booking Form and Consent form to Ms Kripah (Kripah_RAJKUMAR@science.edu.sg) by 7th Nov 2022.

Hope to tinker with you soon!

Tinker Camp December ’19: Registration

The hands-on nature of 2D1N TINKER CAMP brings out the essentiality of science and engineering in everyday settings. Campers will be introduced to working with real tools, like soldering iron, drill, hand-saw, hot glue gun, hammer, etc., under the expert supervision of our Chef Tinkerers.

Apart from learning STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) topics, TINKER CAMP builds a foundation of innovation, social scaffolding, and teamwork for these tinkerers who will one day pave a future of collaboration, sustainable living and confident inventors of society.

Set up in collaboration with San Francisco’s science centre, The Exploratorium, The Tinkering Studio encourages creative learning and exploration.

Things to bring: Sleeping bag, change of clothes (recommended track pants & long sleeves for the night), toiletries & your creative juices!

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Day 1,  6 Dec 2019

TIME	DESCRIPTION
0900	Welcome to Science Centre Singapore
0930 – 1100	Wooden Keychain Like programming or writing, drawing is a skill that lets people express ideas. Unleash your creativity with Inkscape to customise your own wooden keychain and carve it out on a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine.
1100 – 1230	DIY Geoboard Create your own Geoboard from scratch using plywood and nails. Use rubber bands to create line segments and polygons and make discoveries on mathematical topics like area, angles, perimeter, fractions, congruency and more.
1230 – 1330	Lunch
1330 – 1530	Wooden Pinball Be a young Mechanical Engineer and create your Pinball Machine that launches a ball and sends it through an obstacle course.  Build a challenging and exciting game that will keep people coming back again and again to play.
1530 – 1630	Living Worlds – An Animal Planet Experience Visit the Centre’s year-end exhibition which leverages on Animal Planet’s rich video footage to illustrate the impact of human activity on the rich diversity of Earth’s wild places and their inhabitants. Living Worlds also reminds visitors that environmental change begins with the individual – our collective actions have an impact every bit as powerful as that of governments policies and NGOs.
1630 – 1730	NeoPixel – Micro:bit Programming Program the Microbit chipboard to drive NeoPixel LEDs. Display your programming skills by illuminating your Cruller Lamp using this 24 multicolor LEDs. Campers will receive a set of Microbit and Neo Pixel chipboard each to bring home.
1730 – 1830	Dinner
1830 – 2000	Cruller Lamp Shades Make your own lampshades, lantern, chandelier or table lamp. Craft wooden materials into geometrical shapes and stylishly twisted it resembling a braided torpedo.
2000 – 2030	Night Walk
2030 – 2100	Shower
2100 – 2300	Movie time Be inspired by a journey of friendship, creativity and overcoming challenges.
2300	Catching Zzzzs

Day 2, 7 Dec 2019

TIME	DESCRIPTION
0730 – 0830	Electronics Fun-damentals Workshop Learn about the key electronic components and their functions in a circuit. Understand the essentials of electronics through customising your own flexible LED strip.
0830 – 0930	Wash-up and Breakfast
0930 – 1200	Fun Fair Carnival I Campers will be challenged to create their own Fun Fair games station. Equipped with hands-on skills, campers will create their game stations for an indoor or outdoor carnival.
1200 – 1300	Lunch
1300 – 1430	Fun Fair Carnival II * Step into the world of carnival games developed by our Junior Chef Tinkerers. They will showcase their prototypes of STEAM concepts that have been accumulated throughout the Tinker Camp. Families are invited to join their carnival of joy and try their gaming stations.
1430 – 1500	Award Ceremony
1500	Goodbye Junior Chef Tinkerers

Note: Programmes are subjected to change due to unforeseen circumstances

To register, e-mail a copy of the completed Booking Form to Mr Shah (shahrudin_kasmuri@science.edu.sg).

Hope to tinker with you soon!

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!

Tinker Camp Dec ’18: Registration

Science Centre Singapore’s 2D1N TINKER CAMP at the Tinkering Studio is back again for the fifth time! We are back with more, from brainstorming workshops to 3D printing and prototyping our own mini-golf course. We are also including a Greek Exhibition tour. Ready, set, tinker!

Setup in collaboration with San Francisco’s science centre, The Exploratorium, The Tinkering Studio encourages creative learning and exploration.

Things to bring: Sleeping bag, change of clothes (recommended track pants & long sleeves for the night), toiletries & your creative juices!

ITINERARY 

Day 1, 07 December 2018

TIME	DESCRIPTION
9.00 am	Welcome to Science Centre Singapore
9.30 am	3D Printing Realise your 2D imaginations into 3D forms! Infuse creativity with the help of software to create and personalise your own name tag.
11.10 am	Marble Run Sculpture From a marble maze to a marble roller coaster, create an epic marble adventure using recycled materials in this engineering challenge.
12:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Paper Circuitry Using copper tapes, LED and coin battery, re-discover electricity; explore switches, parallel and series circuitry.
3.00pm	Greek Exhibition Get inspired by over 40 inventions of Ancient Greece in Ancient Greek Technology Travelling Exhibition.
4.00pm	Cardboard Automaton Combining mechanical movements and story-telling, this playful machine covers topics such as cams, levers and linkages.
5.30pm	Dinner
6.30pm	Luminous Lantern From making the lantern structure to the light switch to designing the type of shadows the lantern will portray; topics of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) will be explored.
8.00pm	Night Walk A test of courage and friendship in this thrilling twilight adventure as we wander Eco- Garden in a different light.
9.30pm	Shower and Supper
10.30pm	Movie time
11.00pm	Catching Zzzzs

Day 2, 08 December 2018

TIME	DESCRIPTION
7.30am	Wash-up and Breakfast
8.30am	Scribble Bot Create a robot that scribbles unpredictable patterns using an offset motor.
9.30am	Mini Golf Course (Part I) Think creating a mini golf course is child’s play? It is child’s expression accompanied by the mechanical, electrical and structural engineering concepts learnt throughout the camp.
11.30am	Lunch
12.30pm	Mini Golf course (Part II) Continuation of golf course creation.
1.30pm	Mini Golf championships * Tee off in our indoor mini golf course designed by our junior chef tinkerers.
2.00pm	Goodbye Junior Chef Tinkerers

Note: Programmes are subjected to change due to unforeseen circumstances

 

To register, e-mail a copy of the completed Booking Form to Ms Fatin.

Hope to tinker with you soon!

Tinker Camp June’18: Registration

The Tinker Camp is back! This time beefed-up with more Design Thinking workshops. Apart from the usual hands-on prototyping, we will be using 3D printing and making our own arcade games.

Set -up in collaboration with San Francisco’s science centre, The Exploratorium, The Tinkering Studio encourages creative learning and exploration.

Things to bring: Sleeping bag, change of clothes (recommended track pants & long sleeves for the night), toiletries & your creative juices!

 

ITINERARY 

Day 1

TIME	DESCRIPTION
9.00am	Welcome to Science Centre Singapore
9.30am	Catapult Captain’s Ball Create your own launcher to challenge the opposing team in this ice-breaker game of Captain’s Ball.
10.30am	Creative Coding Writing coding scripts to make a motion sensor, game controller or musical instrument has never been more fun and easy.
12:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	DIY Marble Run A fantastic engineering challenge. Use recycle materials like cardboards and craft sticks, and tools like hot glue gun to create mazes and endless possibilities of marble adventure!
3:30pm	3D Printing Realise your 2D imaginations into 3D forms! Infuse creativity with the help of software to create and personalise your own inventions.
5.00pm	Dinner
6.00pm	Electroluminescent Art Understand the importance of polarity as you cut, strip and solder electroluminescent wires. Design and decorate luminescent outfit with EL wire strip and be amazed as it light up when you speak.
7.30pm	Shower and Supper
8.30pm	Movie time Be inspired by a journey of friendship, creativity and overcoming challenges.
10.30pm	Catching Zzzzs

Day 2

TIME	DESCRIPTION
7.30am	Tinkering exercise: Paper Rocket Learn about the simple, yet important flight principles that can enhance the performance of your rocket. Perform rocket stability test and get thrilled as your paper rocket launches into the sky.
8.30am	Wash-up and Breakfast
9.30am	Arcademia (Part 1) Campers will be challenged to create their own arcade games. Equipped with programming skills, 3D technology and hands-on skills, campers will create their ideal game station
11.30am	Lunch
12.30pm	Arcademia (Part 2) Step into the world of arcade games developed by our junior chef tinkerers. Their prototypes showcase their application of STEAM concepts that has been accumulated throughout                 the Tinker Camp.	Parents Seminar* Cultivate a culture of tinkering with your kids at home.
1.30pm	Arcademia Carnival
2.00pm	Goodbye Junior Chef Tinkerers

Note: Programmes are subjected to change due to unforeseen circumstances

To register, e-mail a copy of the completed Booking Form to Mr Shah.

Hope to tinker with you soon!

Tinker Camp (Dec’17): Registration

Tinker Camp is back! This time beefed-up with more Design Thinking workshops. Apart from the usual hands-on prototyping, we will be using 3D printing and making our own arcade games.

Rewind to Tinker Camp June 2017. 

Set -up in collaboration with San Francisco’s science centre, The Exploratorium, The Tinkering Studio encourages creative learning and exploration.

Things to bring: Sleeping bag, change of clothes (recommended track pants & long sleeves for the night), toiletries & your creative juices!

ITINERARY 

Day 1

TIME	DESCRIPTION
9.00am	Welcome to Science Centre Singapore
9.30am	Catapult Captain’s Ball Create your own launcher to challenge the opposing team in this ice-breaker game of Captain’s Ball.
10.30am	Creative Coding Writing coding scripts to make a motion sensor, game controller or musical instrument has never been more fun and easy.
12:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	DIY Marble Run A fantastic engineering challenge. Use recycle materials like cardboards and craft sticks, and tools like hot glue gun to create mazes and endless possibilities of marble adventure!
3:30pm	3D Printing Realise your 2D imaginations into 3D forms! Infuse creativity with the help of software to create and personalise your own inventions.
5.00pm	Dinner
6.00pm	Electroluminescent Art Understand the importance of polarity as you cut, strip and solder electroluminescent wires. Design and decorate luminescent outfit with EL wire strip and be amazed as it light up when you speak.
7.30pm	Shower and Supper
8.30pm	Movie time Be inspired by a journey of friendship, creativity and overcoming challenges.
10.30pm	Catching Zzzzs

Day 2

TIME	DESCRIPTION
7.30am	Tinkering exercise: Paper Rocket Learn about the simple, yet important flight principles that can enhance the performance of your rocket. Perform rocket stability test and get thrilled as your paper rocket launches into the sky.
8.30am	Wash-up and Breakfast
9.30am	Arcademia (Part 1) Campers will be challenged to create their own arcade games. Equipped with programming skills, 3D technology and hands-on skills, campers will create their ideal game station
11.30am	Lunch
12.30pm	Arcademia (Part 2) Step into the world of arcade games developed by our junior chef tinkerers. Their prototypes showcase their application of STEAM concepts that has been accumulated throughout                 the Tinker Camp.	Parents Seminar* Cultivate a culture of tinkering with your kids at home.
1.30pm	Arcademia Carnival
2.00pm	Goodbye Junior Chef Tinkerers

Note: Programmes are subjected to change due to unforeseen circumstances

To register, e-mail a copy of the completed Booking Form to Mr Shah.

Hope to tinker with you soon!

Tinker Camp June 2017: Journey

Like the movie 22 Jump Street, this year’s comeback tinkering sleepover camp had more action and well-defined activities. Unlike most sequels, Tinker Camp 2017 did justice to the phrase “New is better”.

 

Higher facilitator to campers ratio allows each tinkerer to have their own personalised learning journey.

Campers were encouraged to express their prototyping ideas and reflections in the form of drawings or words on their prototyping books.

More tools were introduced, and campers can’t stop creating their prototypes!

Day 1: 16 June 2017, Friday

Scribble Bot

Motor + battery + weight + markers + imagination = crazy drawing robot!

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Electronics fundamentals workshop

Using coper tape as conductive wiring, campers created circuits on paper.

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Creative coding

With the introduction of coding through Micro:bit, campers experimented with music and the motion sensors.

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Recycle, Reuse, Reimagine

One of the uses of recycled water bottle is to tinker a terrarium.

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DIY Laser Maze

Working in teams, they have to create a complicated laser maze for their opponents.

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Day 2: 17 June 2017, Saturday

Paper Airplane

A morning exercise for the body and mind. There is both art and science in the folding of paper airplane. Just a slight crease at a certain angle can change the flight’s course.

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Chain Reaction

Dominos and electrical components were the bulk of camper’s Rube Goldberg machine. One team’s “End” is another team’s “Start”, which is all part of a huge chain reaction!

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Parents Seminar

Partnering with imagin8ors, parents were encouraged to bring tinkering back home and adopt the Constructivist Theory of Learning into the lives of our junior tinkerers.

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A few of the campers final comment were, “The camp should be longer!”

There will be another Tinker Camp in December 2017. Do follow us on Facebook for more updates!

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Tinker Camp (June ’17): Registration

Back by popular demand, Science Centre Singapore’s 2D1N TINKER CAMP at the Tinkering Studio is happening in June 2017! Rewind to Tinker Camp 2016. 

Set -up in collaboration with San Francisco’s science centre, The Exploratorium, The Tinkering Studio encourages creative learning and exploration.

Things to bring: Sleeping bag, change of clothes (recommended track pants & long sleeves for the night), toiletries & your creative juices!

ITINERARY 

Day 1

TIME	DESCRIPTION
9.00am	Welcome to Science Centre Singapore
9.30am	Scribble bot A motor attached to a battery, base and marker; these are the fundamentals to create a scribbling machine that makes surprising patterns.
10.30am	Electronics Fun-damentals Workshop Learn about the key electronic components and their functions in a circuit. Understand the essentials of electronics through creating your very own circuits on paper.
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Creative Coding Writing coding scripts to make a Motion sensor, game controller or musical instrument has never been more fun and easy.
2:30pm	Gallery Pathway: Eco-garden Tour Reconnect with nature and understand the importance of environment and sustainable living. Be inspired by the world around us that is filled with science, engineering and art.
3.30pm	Recycle, Reuse, Reimagine. Using tools to create a DIY indoor farming to grow herbs or freshen the room with succulents. Learn to be a sustainable human being in this competitive society, a superhero of our modern times.
5.00pm	Dinner
6.00pm	DIY laser maze Team up to create a maze from yarn strings, bells and tape to challenge each other.
7.30pm	Shower and Supper
8.30pm	Movie time Be inspired by a journey of friendship, creativity and overcoming challenges.
10.30pm	Catching Zzzzs

Day 2

TIME	DESCRIPTION
7.30am	Tinkering exercise: Paper Airplane Learn about the simple, yet important flight principles that can enhance the performance of your paper airplanes. A warm-up session for both the mind and body.
8.30am	Wash-up and Breakfast
9.30am	Chain Reaction (Part 1) Create a series of event, each caused by the previous one. Your ending is somebody’s start, and everyone is part of a bigger invention.
11.30am	Lunch
12.30pm	Chain Reaction (Part 2) Continue on making the chain reaction.	Parents Seminar* Cultivate a culture of tinkering with your kids at home.
1.30pm	Set-off Chain Reaction
2.00pm	Goodbye Junior Chef Tinkerers

Note: Programmes are subjected to change due to unforeseen circumstances

Register here and we will e-mail you a booking form.

 

Tinker Camp 2016: Journey

Armed with sleeping bags, prototyping notebook and endless amount of creativity, 26 children embarked on an adventure to The Tinkering Studio for our first-ever sleepover camp.

Day 1: 25 November 2016

Scribble Bot

The day started with a brief introduction to the art of tinkering. Campers get their hands dirty with colour markers and experimenting with different weights to make their very own Scribble Bot.

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Electronics Fun-damentals

To light a bulb, it’s not a must to use wires. We explored lighting a LED with a coin battery on paper using copper tapes.

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Recycle, Reuse and Reimagine

Gardening and computer coding, that is the new age superhero recipe to create a sustainable indoor farming.

We learnt basic programming to signal us if the surrounding is too hot for our plants.

Nature is full of ideas and inspirations. Campers used their five senses to tour around Science Centre Singapore’s Eco-garden.

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DIY Laser Maze

Campers are split into 2 teams to create a laser maze for the opposing team, meaning Team 1 will create an obstacle course for Team 2 and vice versa. Materials given: a ball of yarn, tapes and bells. The main aim is to go through the course without disturbing bells on the strings in the fastest time.

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Movie Time

After a long, tiring, tinkerlicious day, campers un-wind by sharing their prize-winning snacks with one another and watching a movie. They are super engrossed!

Day 2: 26 November 2016

Warm up exercise: Paper Airplane

Junior chef tinkerers warmed up both their minds and body with paper airplane workshop. Using papers, they surprised one another with different types of airplanes and gliders.

 

Chain Reaction

For the finale, Jr Chef Tinkerers split into teams to make a Chain Reaction. One’s end is the other’s start point. Parents joined the Jr Chef Tinkerers for the big launch of the Chain Reaction. After the successful launch both campers and parents went home with a happy heart and an addiction to tinkering.

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We will be holding a repeat of the Tinker Camp during the June holidays of 2017. Do follow us on Facebook for more updates

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TINKER CAMP REGISTERATION

Update: Tinker Camp is fully booked. We’ll have plans to do one more in June 2017.

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For the first time ever, Science Centre Singapore’s The Tinkering Studio is organising a 2D1N TINKER CAMP.

Set -up in collaboration with San Francisco’s science centre, The Exploratorium, The Tinkering Studio encourages creative learning and exploration.

Things to bring: Sleeping bag, change of clothes (recommended track pants & long sleeves for the night), toiletries & your creative juices!

 

ITINERARY 

Day 1

TIME	DESCRIPTION
9.00am	Welcome to Science Centre Singapore
9.30am	Electronics Fun-damentals Workshop Learn about the key electronic components and their functions in a circuit. Understand the essentials of electronics through creating your very own circuits on paper.
11.00am	Scribble bot A motor attached to a battery, base and marker; these are the fundamentals to create a scribbling machine that makes surprising patterns.
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Gallery Pathway: Eco-garden Tour Reconnect with nature and understand the importance of environment and sustainable living. Be inspired by the world around us that is filled with science, engineering and art.
1:30pm	Recycle, Reuse, Reimagine. Using tools to create a DIY indoor farming to grow herbs or freshen the room with succulents. Learn to be a sustainable human being in this competitive society, a superhero of our modern times.
3.30pm	DIY laser maze Team up to create a maze from yarn strings, bells and tape to challenge each other.
5.00pm	Dinner
5.45pm	Marble Machine Control the fate of the marbles using the provided materials like tracks, pegs, bells, etc. Explore the laws of physics like gravity and momentum by making the marbles travel the journey you have created.
7.30pm	Shower and Supper
8.00pm	Movie time Be inspired by a journey of friendship, creativity and overcoming challenges.
10.30pm	Catching Zzzzs

Day 2

TIME	DESCRIPTION
7.30am	Tinkering exercise: Paper Airplane Learn about the simple, yet important flight principles that can enhance the performance of your paper airplanes. A warm-up session for both the mind and body.
8.00am	Wash-up and Breakfast
9.00am	Chain Reaction (Part 1) Create a series of event, each caused by the previous one. Your ending is somebody’s start, and everyone is part of a bigger invention.
11.30am	Lunch
12.30pm	Chain Reaction (Part 2) Continue on making the chain reaction.	Parents Seminar Cultivate a culture of tinkering with your kids at home.
1.30pm	Set-off Chain Reaction
2.00pm	Goodbye Chef Tinkerers

Note: Programmes are subjected to change due to unforeseen circumstances