Think. Do. Love. Science

Tan Pin Soon Rich (4C1) and Karthikeyan Bharathi (4C1) are from the school’s Science-in-Action Research Mentorship Programme. They participated in the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) 2019, which was organised by the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the Science Centre Singapore (SCS). The SSEF is affiliated to the prestigious Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), which is regarded as the Olympics of Science Competitions.

Their integrity and empathy showed through when they were able to contribute to intellectual discussion and plan and conduct their experiments independently and safely. They worked hard and were awarded with a Gold Award at SSEF 2019. Being able to empathise and respect the people they communicated with at the fair, defending their work and experiments creatively and intelligently, together with their team-mate (Joshua Tan 4C1), they were also presented with a Special Award by the Singapore Association for the Advancement of Science (SAAS) on top of the Gold Award for their efforts. Another team from our school, Heng Wern Li Cloris (4D1) and Dai Kexin (4D1) also worked very hard and managed to clinch a Bronze Award at SSEF 2019.

Bharathi and Rich, together with Hai Xuan from Raffles Institution were nominated by MOE to represent Singapore at the Fifth ASEAN Student Science Project Competition (ASPC) 2019, which was held at the National Science Museum in Pathum Thani, Thailand, from 21 July to 27 July 2019. This competition aimed to encourage students in developing skills in Science and Technology such as experimentation, communication and innovation. Participating in this competition allowed the students in the ASEAN countries to practise solving problems in daily life and provided a venue for students to foster friendships and networking amongst each other. Bharathi and Rich were able to bite their nerves and successfully anchored the team to the finish. They answered trains of questions from judges around the region and did not lose their cool, calm and composure. The regional judges from the various tertiary universities were impressed by their effort and even against other very impressive communicators, Bharathi and Rich led the team to the top prize at the ASEAN fair, the Project of the Year 2019 for their research project ‘The Tumour Suppressor Fumarase promotes DNA repair by succinylating the Linker Histone H1’. They have indeed done Singapore and CTSS proud!

Bharathi and Rich are very grateful to have been given this opportunity to represent Singapore in an overseas competition. It has helped them to broaden their view of our South-East Asian region, allowing them to learn more about the culture of other ASEAN countries while simultaneously being exposed to regional scientific projects and ideas.

Year	Event	Organiser	Achievements
2020	Singapore Science and Engineering Fair	Science Centre Singapore (SCS)	Individual Award: -          1 Bronze with Special Award SSEF Junior 2020 -          1 Team Commendation Award (Video) (Top 2)
	Singapore Junior Biology Olympiad	SIBiol, SCS	SIBiol – results are yet released
	International Biomedical Challenge	Anglo Chinese JC	Individual Award -          1 Silver -          1 Bronze -          1 Honorable Mention -          1 Credit
	A*STAR Science Award (Upper Secondary)	A*STAR	1 recipient -          Kuok Ray Ann (3B1)
	Unity Scientific Innovation Challenge SP & Eri@n 2020	Unity Secondary School	Team Award -          1 Merit

 

Year	Event	Organiser	Achievements
2019	Singapore Science and Engineering Fair	Science Centre Singapore (SCS)	Team: -          1 Gold with Special Award -          1 Bronze
	Singapore Junior Chemistry Olympiad	SNIC, NUSHS	Individual: -          1 Bronze -          1 Merit
	Singapore Junior Biology Olympiad	SIBiol, SCS	Individual: -          1 Bronze
	International Biomedical Challenge	Anglo Chinese JC	Individual: -          1 Silver -          3 Bronze -          1 Merit
	East Zone A Star Science Fair	A*STAR, Victoria Junior College	Team: -          1 Merit
	Innovation Programme (IvP)	Gifted Education Branch (MOE)	Team: -          Certificate of Merit
	A*STAR Science Award (Upper Secondary)	A*STAR	2 recipients: -          Calista Tan Xin Yi (3B1) -          Natasya Nurfatihah Binte Ahmad (3C1)
	UNSW ICAS Science Competition (Sec 1 Exp)	UNSW	Individual: -          3 Exemplary -          10 Outstanding, -          36 Commendable,
	ASEAN Student Science Project Competition 2019	National Science Museum Thailand in collaboration with the Science Society of Thailand	Team: Overall Top Project (representing Singapore)