From philstar.com | 21 August 2011

Conceptualizing and designing an interactive exhibit to celebrate 50 years of human space flight in the “The Global Enterprise Challenge (GEC) 2011” is not rocket Science, at least not for six Miriam College High School (MCHS) students who placed fourth among 16 countries who joined the 24-hour international online competition last June.

Fourth year students Athena Antiporda, Louise Toledo, Kathrynne Rose Pizarro, Alyyana Antiporda (MCHS batch 2011), Sally Kong, and Nicole Catrina Santos were the representatives of Team Philippines who had to face this challenge: commemorate Yuri Gagarin’s first flight in space in April 1961 by coming up with an outstanding concept for an exhibit that will be for display in “Science museums around the world.”

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A letter of appreciation from Toshinori Yoshioka, on behalf of the GEC Team Japan 2011. He is in the centre of the group, wearing glasses.

Dear Dr Ben Chan,

First I would like to thank you for all the things you’ve done to make this GEC to happen. On behalf of the Japanese team, I would like to show our deepest appreciation.

Through this Global Enterprise Challenge, we`ve experienced a lot. Not only from GEC but from you too. I was very interested to your story that you’ve told us on the bus. History of Singapore, about the port, about the skyscrapers, and relationship between Japan and Singapore.I also enjoyed the jokes from you too. We were deeply impressed by your cordial hospitality from this too. Dr Ben’s generous and warm hearted hospitality really helped us to feel comfortable and also helped us breaking the ice.

I enjoyed this competition and through this competition I have learnt about importance of cooperation between others. Not only with team mates but with every people too. Including Staffs, Mentors and other.I’ve also strongly felt that this sort of competition would not take shape without great deal of cooperationfrom many people like mentors, staffs, sponsors, and administrators.

In the end, I would like to represent Japan team to thank you again for putting this wonderful oppurtunity in shape. Thank you so much.

Sincerely

Toshinori Yoshioka

Thanks Toshinori! We are glad you had fun and took back a unique experience with us at GEC and Singapore Hub.

We had real great fun and genuine fellowship at the Singapore hub during the Global Enterprise Challenge 2011.

Thanks to the participants and mentors from Teams Singapore, Indonesia, China and Japan.

See you in GEC 2012!

On April 12th 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.

To commemorate this momentus event in human history, the international space community has launched an international competition for schools.

Your challenge today is to conceptualise and design an interactive exhibit for display in science museums around the world, celebrating 50 years of human spaceflight, and looking ahead to the next 50.

Estimate what it will cost to develop your exhibit, and produce a business plan to recover the cost of creating and maintaining the exhibit.

Good Luck to all Teams!

Singapore Hub Information

Program Outline

17 June – Arrival of Participating Teams

18 June – Challenge issued

19 June – Submission of Challenge

20 June – Local Event & End of Singapore Hub Events.

Accommodation

Participants will be staying at City Beach Resort.

Address: 8 Port Road, Singapore 117540, Singapore (Map)

Tel: +65 62730030

Fees

The participating fee is US$100 per participant and per mentor accompanying the team. The fees cover accommodation, transportation and meals throughout the event.

Contact

organisers@gec-singapore.com

In Singapore, the Asia hub is jointly organised by the Science Centre Singapore and Young Entrepreneur Centre;