YES challenge at S'pore Poly

On Thursday, I had to go to Singapore Poly for the Young Enterprise Challenge. It was a two day programme where each group had to come up with a product and present it. My school sent three teams though none of the groups were able get past the preliminary rounds and into the semi-finals. Anyway it was a good experience for us. My group came up with
(drum rolls.....)

THE MEDI-WATCH!!! huh? wats tat? Haha that is actually a watch that has a sensor and a needle (like mosquitoes) under the watch so that it injects the medicine into the vein. Its quite complicated but this is the basic idea la. So on the first day, for the first part of the day we had a few seminars. Then we were split into our groups and we moved into a classroom. We were with four other schools - Yishun Town Sec (who eventually went to the semi-finals from our group), Queensway Sec, Orchid Park Sec. Firstly we had some ice breaker games. In the first game, we were asked by Mr Chris Tai ( our mentor) told us that sit in a circle and we were asked to introduce ourselves and say the names of those who had already introduced themselves. Unfortunately I was the last one but i was able to remember each and every one's name :D After that we asked to break up into groups. In the grps we were instructed to try to make the longest line of stuff using the things we had. My grp and another could only come up with 3 lines while Rishi's grp won with 4 and a half lines cos he had a deck of cards:(( haha anyway we had lunch break after that and surprisingly i met one of my ex classmate from Temasek Pri, who is now in TKGS.

After lunch, we went back into our normal grps. That was actually the start of the competition. We had to start to crack our brains in search of a new unique product that has not been made yet in the world. Finally, Rishi came up with a brilliant idea - THE MEDI-WATCH!!! As i hv already explained abt this product in the earlier para, i shall not bother to explain more. As it was a very tiring day, we did bother to think more abt the functions of the product which we left it for the nxt day.

On friday, we proceeded back to the class rooms and continued. Actually, when we went back home, we had decided to do a bit of preparing for the presentation so that we would only need to edit them when we come back. Hence, once everyone had turned up, we were given 2 hours to complete our stuffs. By 10 o'clock we had finished everything and also came up with the script. We were the last grp to present and by the time we presented everyone was hungry so we were let off for lunch. After lunch came the disappointing news. But before that, we had to go back to the auditorium where there were some ppl who talked to us abt the DPA. It was quite interesting but I could see that not many were listening as they wanted to noe the results. And they were nto good.... None of the SJI teams that we sent had made it to the semis :(((( we had believed that our product was definitely much better than the 'Instant Sanitizer' which Yishun Sec came up with. Anyway, we left SP shortly after the announcement of the results....