swp2019 | NUS Physics

Specialised Workshop in Physics, 10-12 July, 2019

A total of 27 international high school students took part in the Specialised Workshop in Physics held at the department. This workshop was a three-day extension of the Science Summer Camp organised by the Asia Pacific Centre of Management Education (APCME). The objective of the summer camp is to stir the curiosity of young students and impart in them a life-long fascination for science through an intellectually stimulating environment.

Students had the opportunity to engage in different hands-on activities such as laser cutting, identifying unknown sample using various identification tools, trying out olympiad experiments as well as stargazing. They were also brought to research labs and briefed on the state-of-the-art facilities available for research here at the department. Talks by professors served to further enhance their understanding of this physical universe.

The department hopes that the workshop has been an inspiring and meaningful experience for all the young participants as they continue to pursue their higher learning in science.

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I really enjoy how I could ask whatever questions I want even if it’s super annoying. The questions are like common sense questions but they would still be willing to answer. I think even though like I’m not at this grade of science, I’m still able to take away a lot from this camp. I may consider physics as an area I could invest in science.

I believe this extension is very nice because of the great facilities and the environment is very welcoming. There are many things here that are hard to be found in other places for example you can’t find the microscopes here in schools as they are too expensive. The hands-on activities are quite fun as we are able to use a lot of equipment to detect unknown objects. Here, everything is in place. The canteen is nearby. The learning facilities are very efficient. And I’ve met a lot of friendly people and make quite some friends.

I really like the tennis ball lecture. When we learn something it is hard to concentrate on one thing for two hours. But this lecture was like activity so we use tennis balls and we learn the carbon lecture on diamond and graphite. That was really interesting. It was easier to understand things by using the balls and making the structures. And it was fun. I also like the part we laser cut our hair. The hair is really thin. By using microscope we could see the narrow part of the hair. It was really great. I think I learn a lot of things.

I think it was really fun. The lectures were interesting. We learn new things but like it doesn’t feel like learning because we were collaborating while doing experiments. Some experiments we were put to do on our own so we have to figure it out and that helps us in problem solving instead.

I find the summer camp really fun. I learn quite a lot of my physics because they go more deeper than what I have learned so far in school. I feel that with the knowledge learned, I can use that for my engineering course which I am going to take in university.