The third ASEC event saw over 40 students participating from Singapore. In the first for ASEC, the top two teams from each country were judged by a regional panel of judges to determine the asian winner.
The ASEC Challenge
The challenge was issued by Professor Chris Rogers, Director of the Centre for Engineering Education & Outreach (CEED) of Tufts University, located in Boston USA.
The challenge read;
Mobility is an essential activity in our everyday life that we often take for granted.
In many countries around the world, there are disabled people and the elderly who are challenged to have mobility in their daily activities.
Today, new technologies in robotics, electronics, communications and etc can help the disabled and elderly people to gain back their mobility.
Your Challenge today is to develop a commercially viable product or services to help alleviate mobility issues faced by the disabled and/or elderly people in your country
The ASEC Singapore Winners
Team Knorex mentored by Dr Justin Choo of Knorex won the ASEC Singapore competition. In addition, they won second place for the regional judging. The team went on to represent Singapore in the GEC 2011.
GEC 2011 & Asian Hub
Held over 18-19 June over three timezones, the Global Enterprise Challenge was controlled from Mission Control in Sydney, Australia. In Singapore, the asian hub saw teams from China, Indonesia, Singapore and Japan come together to compete and interact with each other.
The GEC Challenge
The challenge was issued by NASA astronauts
The challenge read;
On April 12th 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. To commemorate this momentous 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.
The GEC Winners
First Place | TEAM AUSTRALIA
Second Place | TEAM NEW ZEALAND
Third Place | TEAM USA
Creativity Award | TEAM JAPAN
IPN Innovation & Creativity Award | TEAM SINGAPORE
The ASEC+GEC 2011 Sponsors
ASEC+GEC 2011 Media & Links
ASEC 2011 Event News & Information
ASEC 2011 Photos – Part 1 & Part 2
Australia Mission Control Website