National Design Project 2023 - 24
2023
The National Design Project is a design event for youths to raise the appreciation of design and design as a process for creative problem solving. Students from all levels of general education participated to tackale a real-world issue impacting our society. As a tool, Design Thinking is used to solve complex problems such as climate change, poverty and ageing population. The brief for this project is to use Design Thinking to address the theme, Design for Wellness.
The submission needs to creatively solve a wellness issue our society is facing. Students could explore environmental, social, workplace, mental or physical welnness challenges to develop unique and innovative solutions to address these problems.
Presenting the project to Education Minister, Mr Chan Chun Sing
Mentor David Tham, Studio Norms
Congratulations to the Trailblazing Thinkers for being awarded the Certificate of Distinction
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The Hive 5, Socially Connected by Spaces
Photo is taken with Principal, Mr Justin Pierre (second row, left) and Mrs Pennie Ong (second row, right), Innomakers Programme Leader
Award: Certificate of High Merit
Year 1 (2023) Team: Deng Kaile, Aiden Chong, Babu Monish, Chung Sunho, Akshaj Prabhakaran
Award: Certificate of Distinction
Year 2 (2023) Team: Joshua Chew, Adrien Lim, Elliot D'Cruz, Jayden Ong, Gabriel Ho
2024
The SJI team which won the Certificate of Distinction in the National Design Project in 2023 was invited to participate in a 5 day internship at Temasek Polytechnic from 27 May to 31 May 2024. This innovative and passionate group of students consisting of Joshua Chew (LE303), Adrien Lim (ML301), Elliot D'Cruz (ML301), Gabriel Ho (ML301) and Jayden Ong (MN303) started the seed idea for Project Hive 5 when they were in the Innomakers Programme last year.
The Hive 5's strong social stand towards empowering the elderly population in Toa Payoh with independence and enriching their daily lives with social interaction in a specially designed community centre impressed the Design Council Singapore. Hence, they were invited to present at the media launch of the Design Education Advisory Committee's report 2.0 on 13 June 2024. The students were also interviewed by the media (CNA, Ch 8 and 联合早报).
Group photo with the wonderful mentors from Temasek Polytechnic
TP mentor: Mr Bryan Lim
TP mentor: Mr Simon
Visiting Nurtinest Apiary to understand the bees colony and how they co-exist with one another and nature.
Laser cut version of The Hive 5 (Third iteration)
Presentation at the Design Council Singapore media launch at The Kingsmen Experience
SJI Dean for Foundation Academy (left) supporting our students.
Using Design Thinking, Elliot presented the persona to the audience.
Interview Session