STEM Applied Learning Programme
Flight & Aerospace
OVERVIEW
KEY AIMS
Broaden our students’ exposure to Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) through flight & aerospace.
Excite students about STEM through hands-on and authentic learning experiences.
Hillgrove Secondary School has a three-tiered approach to organising our Flight & Aerospace Applied Learning Programme.
WHAT A TYPICAL STEM ALP LESSON IS LIKE
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
2023
During our school’s Cohort Programme in April, all Sec 2 students got to build and fly a rubber band powered glider. 20 Sec 1 and 2 students were selected for our Drones Training Programme and 8 teams took part in Drone Odyssey Challenge 2023 organised by Science Centre Singapore. 2 teams entered the final round and achieved Best Presentation and Judges’ Award. After the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, we organised learning journeys to the Air Force Museum, Changi Experience Studio and Singapore Polytechnic School of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering.
2021
Beginning this year, the school adopted “Future of Transportation” as the Contextual Theme for our STEM ALP.
One of the aspects of Future of Transportation that our students are learning about is autonomous vehicles. Through the mBot, our students get a chance to learn about and experience some of the principles behind autonomous vehicles, like line tracing and obstacle avoidance.
2020
Our school was pleased to host Ghostcat Medienproduktion GmbH, a German media production company¸ as they wanted to film our school’s ALP programme to bring it to a German TV audience.
2019
Ever wished you had a chance to fly a drone?
Our students at Hillgrove can. In fact, through our STEM ALP, every Secondary 2 student gets a chance to fly a drone. And not just fly a drone, but also code a drone to perform different tasks.
Beginning from January 2019, the school’s focus on Flight & Aerospace was broadened to include aspects of computational thinking within the weekly STEM ALP lessons.
2019 also saw the introduction of Potato Pirates into the STEM ALP curriculum as a game-based pedagogy. Students are introduced to basic programming concepts such as loops & conditional through playing the game, all without getting bogged down by any syntax.
2016
Ever wondered how a Paper Airplane would fly in space?
Four Hillgrove Secondary School students did.
They got the answer when their experiment was chosen to be conducted on board the International Space Station in September 2016. They had submitted a proposal to the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and were invited to the JAXA Tsukuba Space Center to witness their experiment being conducted live on board the International Space Station.
This was the first time that a Singapore proposal was selected!
Click on this link to watch the video of the actual experiment conducted
