STEM Applied Learning Programme
Flight & Aerospace
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OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW
KEY AIMS
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
WHAT A TYPICAL STEM ALP LESSON IS LIKE
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
2026
2026
STEAM Camp in May brought STEM and the arts together through a Makerspace programme run with our Aesthetics Department. Our Secondary 2 students also heard from Dr Gaurav, an aerospace scientist from A*STAR, about his research.
Ten students trained in first-person view (FPV) drone flying and represented the school at the Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition (SAFMC) 2026. A group of students also attended an applied learning module at Singapore Polytechnic on aerospace fundamentals, which included flight simulation. This year we also piloted Makerspace Champions, where students used OnShape and 3D printing to design and make their own projects.
2025
2025
During STEAM Camp, our Secondary 2 students explored space science through a collaboration with Space Faculty. They designed and dropped their own payloads and learnt through a space-themed board game. They also designed musical greeting cards that combined circuitry with art. Secondary 2 students visited Space Infinity on a learning journey, and our Secondary 4 and 5 students heard about careers in the space industry.
Space workshop with Space Faculty
Designing musical greeting cards
Space Infinity learning journey
Our Secondary 2 STEM ALP lessons were refreshed with a new mBot2 lesson package aligned to the Future of Transportation theme. Secondary 1 students applied design thinking to build cardboard chairs, used 3D pens to develop creative solutions, and built rubber band powered gliders after their exams.
Coding with the mBot2
Sec 1 cardboard chair challenge
Creations made with 3D Pens
Beyond the classroom, students from our Drone Leaders Programme took part in the Drone Odyssey Competition and SAFMC 2025. A group of Secondary 3 students also attended an applied learning module on aircraft design and fabrication at Singapore Polytechnic. Our students also took part in Climate Fresk and received the Water Stewardship Team Award and the Climate Action Renewable Energy Award.
Applied learning module at Singapore Polytechnic - Climate Fresk
2023
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
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
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
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
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
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