Pre-University Engagement

Lecture 1: How AI is Shaping Our World?
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Explore how AI is transforming healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, smart cities and everyday life.

Networking Lunch and Cross-Track Team Bonding

Lecture 2: Beyond the Algorithm: What Really Powers AI?
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Understand how AI depends on data centres, computing infrastructure and electricity. Explore why AI consumes significant energy and the challenges of cooling modern data centres.
Discover how data centres provide the computing power behind AI and why sustainable design is essential for supporting future digital technologies.

Workshop 1: Training an Object Identification Model

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Learn how YOLOv26 uses convolutional neural networks and pre-trained models to identify objects.

Students will also explore the complete model-training process, from collecting and labelling image datasets to training and testing an object-identification model.

Lunch

Workshop 2: Robot SLAM and Navigation with ROS

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Explore the kinematic model of a differential-drive robot and learn how the Robot Operating System (ROS) supports mapping, localisation and autonomous navigation.

Students will use SLAM to create a map before programming the robot to navigate independently within a known environment.

Workshop 2: Robot SLAM and Navigation with ROS

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Explore the kinematic model of a differential-drive robot and learn how the Robot Operating System (ROS) supports mapping, localisation and autonomous navigation.

Students will use SLAM to create a map before programming the robot to navigate independently within a known environment.

Workshop 3: UAV Fundamentals and Flight Control
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Explore the fundamentals of multirotor UAV systems, including their key components, flight principles and feedback-control mechanisms. Students will also be introduced to PX4, QGroundControl, UAV state estimation, flight modes and essential safety procedures.

Through hands-on activities, students will inspect the UAV’s components, connect it to QGroundControl, calibrate its sensors and perform system checks. They will then practise basic flight operations, including arming and disarming, take-off, hovering, position control and landing, while observing how onboard sensors and feedback control help stabilise the UAV.

Workshop 3: UAV Fundamentals and Flight Control
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Explore the fundamentals of multirotor UAV systems, including their key components, flight principles and feedback-control mechanisms. Students will also be introduced to PX4, QGroundControl, UAV state estimation, flight modes and essential safety procedures.

Through hands-on activities, students will inspect the UAV’s components, connect it to QGroundControl, calibrate its sensors and perform system checks. They will then practise basic flight operations, including arming and disarming, take-off, hovering, position control and landing, while observing how onboard sensors and feedback control help stabilise the UAV.

Workshop 4: UAV Autonomous Missions and Perception
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Explore how UAVs operate autonomously by integrating perception, localisation, position estimation, navigation, planning and flight control. Students will learn about waypoint navigation, offboard control and onboard target detection using AprilTags.

Through hands-on activities, students will prepare the UAV for autonomous operation and use a Python-based ground-control programme to command it to take off, navigate through predefined waypoints and land independently. They will also use an onboard camera to detect an AprilTag and complete an autonomous mission, from take-off and target identification to returning and landing safely.

AI Sustainable Ecosystem Grand Showcase

Prize Presentation and Closing Ceremony

Lecture 1: How AI is Shaping Our World?
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Explore how AI is transforming healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, smart cities and everyday life.

Networking Lunch and Cross-Track Team Bonding

Lecture 2: Beyond the Algorithm: What Really Powers AI?
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Understand how AI depends on data centres, computing infrastructure and electricity. Explore why AI consumes significant energy and the challenges of cooling modern data centres.
Discover how data centres provide the computing power behind AI and why sustainable design is essential for supporting future digital technologies.

Workshop 1: Beyond the Box – Reimagining the Sustainable Data Centre

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Explore how architecture can transform conventional data centres into more sustainable spaces. Through a design challenge and hands-on prototyping, students will develop alternative data-centre concepts that integrate energy, cooling, materials, people and the environment.

Lunch

Workshop 2: Environmental impacts of Data Centres

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Explore how data centres affect the environment through their energy consumption and cooling requirements. Through interactive discussions and online assessment tools, they will examine potential solutions, consider the challenges and trade-offs involved, and gain an introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed (STDCT) Learning Journey
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Students will visit a working data-centre testbed to see how its equipment, cooling systems and energy-efficient technologies operate under tropical conditions, and learn about their real-world applications.

LT7A

STDCT, 2 Estate Office Drive, Singapore 117587

Lecture 3: Cooling the Digital World – Introduction to Data Centre Cooling

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Learn why data centres generate significant heat and require continuous cooling. Students will explore airflow management, hot and cold aisles, different cooling technologies, energy efficiency and the challenges of cooling high-performance AI systems.

Workshop 3: Cooling the Digital World – Introduction to Data Centre Cooling

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Students will design a mock-up data-centre layout, arrange server racks to manage airflow and identify issues such as hot-air recirculation. They will then select an appropriate cooling technology and explain their choice.

Lecture 4: Performance Monitoring of Data Centres Using Sensors
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Students will learn how temperature, airflow and electrical-power sensors are used to monitor data-centre performance. Students will explore sensor placement, data analysis and simplified Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).

Workshop 4: Performance Monitoring of Data Centres Using Sensors
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Students will install sensors, measure temperature, airflow and electrical power under different operating conditions, and analyse the data to evaluate cooling and energy performance.

Lunch

Free and Easy Group Discussions

Testing and Commissioning

AI Sustainable Ecosystem Grand Showcase

Prize Presentation and Closing Ceremony

Lecture 1: How AI is Shaping Our World?
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Explore how AI is transforming healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, smart cities and everyday life.

Networking Lunch and Cross-Track Team Bonding

Lecture 2: Beyond the Algorithm: What Really Powers AI?
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Understand how AI depends on data centres, computing infrastructure and electricity. Explore why AI consumes significant energy and the challenges of cooling modern data centres.
Discover how data centres provide the computing power behind AI and why sustainable design is essential for supporting future digital technologies.

Overview of the Tidal Wave Energy Challenge
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Introduction to the Track 3 overall challenge, including the fundamentals of renewable energy, the key components of a wave or tidal energy harvester, and the process of converting water movement into electrical power. The session will also introduce the upcoming workshops, project activities and expected final deliverables

Workshop 1: Sustainable and Underwater 3D-Printed Structures for Marine Energy Harvesting

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Explore how low-carbon concrete and 3D-printing technologies can support more sustainable marine-energy infrastructure. Students will learn about the challenges of constructing underwater structures and observe a demonstration of concrete extrusion and printing.

Working in teams, students will design and fabricate a modular foundation, protective housing or reef-inspired support for a marine-energy device. They will test their designs in water, assess their stability and material efficiency, and refine them for integration with their wave or tidal energy harvester.

Lunch

Workshop 1: Sustainable and Underwater 3D-Printed Structures for Marine Energy Harvesting

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Explore how low-carbon concrete and 3D-printing technologies can support more sustainable marine-energy infrastructure. Students will learn about the challenges of constructing underwater structures and observe a demonstration of concrete extrusion and printing.

Working in teams, students will design and fabricate a modular foundation, protective housing or reef-inspired support for a marine-energy device. They will test their designs in water, assess their stability and material efficiency, and refine them for integration with their wave or tidal energy harvester.

Lecture 2: CFD for Sustainable Energy
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Discover how engineers use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to study water flow and improve the design of wave- and tidal-energy systems. Students will learn how CFD simulations are developed and how to interpret velocity, pressure and vortex visualisations.

Through a prepared simulation demonstration and case study, students will explore how device geometry and flow conditions affect performance and loading, and understand why digital predictions must be validated through physical testing in a hydraulic laboratory.

Lunch

Workshop 3: Harnessing Ocean Energy: Build and Test a Wave/Tidal Energy Harvester
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Discover how waves and tidal currents can be converted into clean electrical energy. Students will compare different marine-energy technologies before working in teams to assemble a modular energy harvester comprising a micro-generator, mechanical transmission and electrical circuit. 

Learning Journey at Hydraulics and Coastal Resilience Lab

Workshop 3: Harnessing Ocean Energy: Build and Test a Wave/Tidal Energy Harvester
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Students will test their prototypes under controlled wave or current conditions in the NUS Hydraulics Laboratory. They will measure voltage and current, calculate electrical power and investigate how changing one design parameter affects energy output. Teams will refine their prototypes, connect the generated power to an LED or model load, and summarise their findings for the final integrated presentation.

Lunch

Workshop 3: Harnessing Ocean Energy: Build and Test a Wave/Tidal Energy Harvester
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Students will test their prototypes under controlled wave or current conditions in the NUS Hydraulics Laboratory. They will measure voltage and current, calculate electrical power and investigate how changing one design parameter affects energy output. Teams will refine their prototypes, connect the generated power to an LED or model load, and summarise their findings for the final integrated presentation.

Connect & Reflect: Cross-Track Sharing and Integration

AI Sustainable Ecosystem Grand Showcase

Prize Presentation and Closing Ceremony