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Award Ceremony 2009

 
Science Chronicles is a science fiction writing competition, aimed at fostering a new generation of scientific thinkers and writers. It is open to all secondary and JC students in Singapore. Students are given free rein to pen their literary creations that should have at least some mention of science and technology within their storyline. 
The Award Ceremony to conclude the competition was held on 12 October 2009 at Fusionopolis. A total of 22 schools had taken part in the competition with 116 students submitting 110 entries on various aspects of science fiction.  

The Guest of Honour was Prof Charles Zukoski, Chairman of A*STAR"s Science & Engineering Research Council, who gave an insightful address about science and reading science fiction to the students and teachers. Dr Bharathi Srinivasan from the LCS Programme, who is herself a big fan of science fiction, gave an overview of the stories received and shared some feedback about the entries from a scientist"s point of view. 

On behalf of the organising committee, congratulations to the following top winners for Science Chronicles 2009:

Category A - Secondary Level

1st Prize - Quantum World by Amanda Lim of NUS High School

2nd Prize - Retrograde by Esther Lim of Raffles Girls School

3rd Prize - Babelnet by Shoun Tan of NUS High School

Category B - JC Level

1st Prize - The Lost Race of Maa by Vijay R Thimmaiyah & Vo Thanh Minh Tue of   NUS High School

2nd prize - The Dream Machine by Chong Zheng Shan of Hwa Chong Institution

3rd prize - Assassin of Trinity by Shashank Gupta, Mainak Ghosh and Aditya Srivastava of National Junior College

 

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