{"id":5481,"date":"2021-07-22T13:17:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/idp\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=5481"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:09:38","slug":"team-agritisan-won-nus-rg-innovation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/news\/team-agritisan-won-nus-rg-innovation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Agritisan won the NUS Resilience and Growth (R&amp;G) Innovation Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our iDP team Agritisan who won the NUS Resilience and Growth (R&amp;G) Innovation Challenge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5482\" src=\" \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/RnGIC-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Rngic\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/RnGIC-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/RnGIC-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/RnGIC-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/RnGIC-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/RnGIC-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/07\/RnGIC-1350x760.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Agritisan, previously known as HexAgri, is a rooftop hydroponics farm in Singapore that aims to contribute to Singapore\u2019s 30 by 30 goal (i.e. to produce 30% of its own food by 2030).<\/p>\n<p>The team is answering the nation-wide initiative to ensure food security in Singapore through its own proprietary technology that focuses on high yield produce, self-sustainable in water and energy, and rapid deployment which allows the towers to be easily installed and detached anywhere and anytime. Their self-sustainable system allows no external electricity and water to be drawn to sustain the farms.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, all of these can be done through the great synergy of the Agritisan team, which comprises of <strong>Furlyn Chow<\/strong> (Materials Science &amp; Engineering, Class of 2022) who manages operation of the farm, <strong>Clement Clayrant Chen<\/strong> (Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2022) who handles the business development side, with <strong>Darren Erdyan Khalif<\/strong> (Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2022) and <strong>Ho Cheng Wei<\/strong> (Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2019) who ensures that the technology works well and keep innovating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our iDP team Agritisan who won the NUS Resilience and Growth (R&amp;G) Innovation Challenge. Agritisan, previously known as HexAgri, is a rooftop hydroponics farm in Singapore that aims to contribute to Singapore\u2019s 30 by 30 goal (i.e. to produce 30% of its own food by 2030). The team is answering the nation-wide initiative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":5486,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[22],"class_list":["post-5481","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14512,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5481\/revisions\/14512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}