Hwa Chong Institution student Liew Mei Hui, 17, and Raffles Junior College's Foo Ming Qing, 18, had spent their year-end school holidays last year experimenting with 'electrochromic material'' that changes colour when an electric current is applied.

Their project was one of 44 done last year under the Young Defence Scientists Programme (YDSP), a joint effort between the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) and DSO National Laboratories (DSO).

The two science students had read up about the technology and were mentored by defence scientists from defence research house Temasek Laboratories, as well as DSTA and DSO.

The duo readily admitted that the colour-changing material, ideal for camouflage, is still a work-in-progress. The material lasts about two weeks before it disintegrates.

'We hope to find ways to incorporate the electrochromic material into fabrics and make it tougher,' said Ming Qing.

Budding scientists from 11 schools showcased their works yesterday at the YDSP Congress at Raffles City Convention Centre.

Among them was a 'rail gun', developed by a team of five students from four schools, that uses electromagnetic energy to propel peanut-size projectiles.

At the event, Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean gave out 30 YDSP scholarships to students from various schools. Worth $500 for the first year, students receive another $500 in the second year if they continue to perform well academically.

Forty-five students also won YDSP academic awards, each worth $200, for topping their schools in physics and maths.

Speaking at the event, Mr Teo said the Singapore Armed Forces' ability to customise technology for its defence gives it the decisive edge.

-posted by 07S6K at 8:06 PM

the moment i got up this morning, i was going to flip open 'Home' of the straits times to the sports section and guess wad... i flip to this page with bo xuan , huang pei and mei hui in it...go see... something abt defence science i think, a rail gun and some camofladge material...cool..

-posted by michael at 8:58 AM

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

regarding e Friday class outing
so far according e feedback gathered, two thirds of whole class will be able to make it
hope those who can turn up do come and have fun together
in e rest of our JC life, we may not have many class outings
as mr lee has said, honeymoon will end soon
e time for mugging looms
sigh....sad....

so, have fun now!

i guess my holiday is more sian and slacker than siyuan's
at least he is able and willing to jog from our school to Mount bukit timah
i just stay in my small but cosy comfort zone
watch movie, sleep, surf e internet and listen to some music
anyway, i enjoy this kind of life
i am wondering
how long all these can last...

-posted by 07S6K at 5:47 PM

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

I have no idea about the class outing... until like... yesterday. Who's going? And no... I haven't start mugging ><; Still trying to get Huang Cheng out of my system.

And yes... please please, try to be more active on the class blog! *quoting from huang cheng script* 你现在不说，什么时候说？等到老抠抠时再讲阿？*sign* I might be wrong, but I was counting the posts and I took up like... half of all the posts? Makes it look like I have plenty of slack time huh? And I do believe you all visits the library at least once a week? So please take the time to post something! I take hours to resize and post all the photos, so I believe I can ask you to take a minute to comment or say something.


Anyways....Huang Cheng has finally, after 2 and a half month, ended. For those who went to support the event, I hope you all enjoyed it. (ha, if you didn't notice I did the designing and painted a great deal of the three paintings for 玻璃鞋的情侣大比拼) We had a great time back stage *laughs* That 15s on stage is OUR performance for you! (and the rest of the time is spent poking fun at the shows *lmao*) Night sight = super zai now.

来无踪，去无踪。
我们是台上的操纵者。
十五秒的换场，是我们的表演。

The amphi is once again empty... and while I won't be so tired everyday, I can't help but miss Huang Cheng. Missing the crowded, hard to navigate and impossible to locate anything mess in the raffia-ed off dao ju area. Missing the hammering, the sawing and the songs and the random lines sung by the 木工 people. Missing the painting and drawing and my dear 美工组长 and all the fellow 道具 people. ;____;

让我们唱一首华初的歌
一首永远的歌

-posted by Anonymous at 6:31 PM

i miss all of you~~~haha~~
:D

holiday in boarding school is too boring!!!
and i'm too tired to go out.

two more questions, where does the idea about having class outing at night come from???
does anyone start to mug?!


Siyuan

-posted by 07S6K at 3:35 PM

hi, 6k.
Here's the plan of our coming class outing:
meet at the Jurong Entertainment Centre
at 5 pm, Friday, march 16
we'll have our supper together
then can go playing pool, ice-skating or playing in the arcade

the reason why we have it at night is because
that's the time when most ppl can turn up.

see you there!

wenjun

-posted by 07S6K at 2:03 PM

Saturday, March 10, 2007

lalalalalalalala...end of term one :)

-posted by michael at 5:38 PM

PLEASE. IM SO DESPERATE IM RESORTING TO THIS.

三个月已经过了，但是在博客上写东西的中国学生仍是非常稀少。我们都了解，宿舍的电脑设备不是很好。

不过，事实仍是事实；占我们的班绝大的人数还是中国学生。

我们新加坡人已经负了在博客上写东西的‘重担’，简直是孤掌难鸣啊。

希望从此之后，这个博客会受到班上每一个学生（尤其是中国学生）的踊跃支持。我在图书馆里常常看见中国学生利用电脑设备上网，希望上网的时候你们能抽出几分钟的时间，在博客上写一写东西。

相信如果多管齐下，我们班的博客就能如锦上添花，如虎添翼， 变成一个更 ENTHU 的地方。谢谢！

TanZYinG

-posted by 07S6K at 2:17 AM

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Remember the projectile enrichment tutorial Mr Koh gave us, the one where we were asked to read up on relative velocity? You would have noticed the part in the textbook regarding winds blowing aircraft off-course, and the pilot having to turn into the wind to correct for the drift. So here are 2 videos, to show just how much trouble these nasty winds can cause.

Video 1: Boeing's Crosswind Landing Flight Tests (B777-200, B747SP, B777-300) The jets here are being tested to see how they respond to landing with severe crosswinds (the winds are 60 knots, gusting to 70), so no passengers.



Video 2: A JAL flight landing in the now closed Hong Kong Kai Tak airport, with a crosswind gusting across the runway, with passengers.



The approach to Kai Tak is a very strange one, because of the mountains around the airport, the pilots have to manually turn the plane to line up with runway 13. Normally, the pilots can simply tune the radios to receive the appropriate signals and the plane will line up with the runway right in front of them. The radios provide vertical navigation too to guide the planes down safely. But for Kai Tak, there is no runway in sight. Instead, there is a red and white checkerboard where the runway is supposed to be. The captain hand flies the plane in, turning using the approach lights mounted on the ground as a reference. This is called the IGS or checkerboard approach, so no Autopilot can do this. This is why you see the flight in the video turn suddenly, it is not a case of pilot forgetting to read his instruments. By the way, winds around mountains are generally strong very turbulent and unfortunately, not really predictable.. and they have caused a few problems to flight crews.

Enjoy the videos!

Yong Lin

-posted by 07S6K at 8:46 PM

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

OMG... *hugs*

Welcome back Micheal! Just got home after huang cheng... the whole time today we were worrying about the few O' level people and yes... all of them can stay! =)

thank you for the notes and sweets... we will get to the moon one day XD

-posted by Anonymous at 11:41 PM

Welcome back Micheal!
phew...the call came so so late...glad u are back in 6K!

There may be more additions to 6K...do welcome them when they join us...ok?

Mr Lee

-posted by 07S6K at 10:14 PM

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

i feel bad for pangsehing

i even explictly told my angel that i would go cause 'its my duty'

but my family already schedule that day to go chengxians house to partay. suay suay JTS happen to rescheduled to that day. sorrie!

*runs from accusing looks*

TanZYinG

-posted by 07S6K at 2:38 AM

Monday, March 5, 2007

GC art by.. xinky(?) (not sure who did it as it was passed down the row for everyone's entertainment... I believe it was supposed to be Mona Lisa at first XD)
Smoking weapon of singular distruction
Look closely... someone obviously had very itchy fingers
the cubing (tetrahedral-ing) disease contiue to spread through huang cheng XD (道长 also not spared)
Pile of eraser dust generated in on sitting XD
I think it's now more than 10 times of that after I am done with the boards...

Labels: huang cheng, photos, ti-ann

-posted by Anonymous at 11:14 PM

Thursday, March 1, 2007

The CNY photos, they are long overdued but better late than never ^^

chocolate puzzle
wonders what they were looking at
Chinese Orchestra
yong lin

Fortune cookies... I had one too XD

(...)

(corn in a cone?)

Labels: CNY, photos, ti-ann

-posted by Anonymous at 11:47 PM