Science Centre Singapore’s UNTAME Returns Bigger and Better to Spotlight the Power of Multidisciplinary Learning in a Post-Covid World

For the year-end vacation interval, Science Centre Singapore (SCS) has rolled out UNTAME: Rebooting Our World – an immersive, blended studying competition boasting a series of phased initiatives from now till 5 December.Returning for its second run, UNTAME 2021 is designed to empower an edutaining discovery of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, and how their convergence with Arts and Humanities helps drive essential options for navigating a post-pandemic world.

The second version of UNTAME is a four-part extravaganza, that includes UNTAME STEAM Festival, UNTAME Online, UNTAME Day and UNTAME After Dark.Evolving from its digital-first strategy in 2020 amid the pandemic, this yr’s UNTAME is a hybrid competition hosted each online and on-site, the place visitors can count on a multi-dimensional expertise together with STEM-themed quests, sensory reveals, tinkering workshops, a pop-up farmer’s market and even an after-hours occasion.The competition theme – Rebooting Our World – mirrors the nice reset led to by the pandemic and mankind’s position in rebuilding a sustainable future.Through competition actions, visitors will embark on missions that encourage us to rethink methods of
dwelling, perceive the affect of STEM-related disciplines in reshaping the world for the higher,
and see how we will help to take this motion ahead.

To additional rally the public to take motion in the direction of a sustainable future, a key spotlight this yr is CAPtivate, a record-breaking occasion to create a significant upcycled artwork piece – Singapore’s largest bottle cap mural involving native artist and eco-enthusiast Edmund Chen. He has additionally been appointed Creator-in-residence at SCS as half of this venture. The bottle cap mural will subsequently be on show at SCS’s kinetic backyard.SCS’s UNTAME: Rebooting Our World unfolds in 4 phases:

UNTAME STEAM Festival
2 to 10 October 2021

Organised by KidsSTOP, UNTAME STEAM Festival seeks to showcase artistic approaches to STEAM-based educating and studying with a host of academic and sensorial experiences for kids. Open to the public online from 1 October, and on-site from 2 to 10 October through timed periods, younger learners explored methods to construct a more sustainable world, via partaking hands-on STEAM actions.At the Centre, kids, dad and mom and educators received their arms soiled at the STEAM Play Yard, the place they received to reimagine enjoyable with varied hands-on actions; festival-goers additionally discovered about renewable power, embellished a reusable tote bag with pure pigments and programmed a robotic to clear up trash.

UNTAME Online
29 October to 5 December

UNTAME Online kicked off through #UNTAMEreboot, a gamified platform designed completely for the digital occasion. Drawing a parallel to this yr’s theme, visitors entered a dystopian and desecrated digital world, representing the dire state of our planet as a outcome of mankind’s unsustainable practices. Through a series of missions throughout six habitats, gamers get to go on an journey to restore ravaged environments and uncover how small however aware selections can have a massive, constructive impression on the planet.

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In partnership with native landmarks like Gardens by the Bay and Sentosa, and sustainability-focused manufacturers together with Green Monday and Uniqlo, missions will be accomplished through movies and on-ground at these collaborators’ websites. The missions may even comprise mini video games in addition to actions complementary to hands-on studying kits. As gamers progress via the platform, they accumulate in-game forex which can be utilized to redeem enticing prizes.

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UNTAME Online was facilitated through three sorts of passes that ranges from a free move, $45 and $80, every permitting entry to a completely different vary of actions.

UNTAME Day
20 to 28 November

New to this yr’s UNTAME is an on-site expertise, that includes a series of workshops, over 10 hands-on actions and a Farmer’s Market.

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Hosted at Science Centre Singapore, households get to take part in a slew of sustainability-themed actions to flip trash into treasure with the reminiscence body making workshop, bottle upcycling workshop and snack pack making workshop.

Guests might additionally take part in actions to remodel previous CDs into beautiful dream catchers or contribute to the Centre’s record-breaking ambition with CAPtivate to type Singapore’s largest bottle cap wall mural.

Exclusively on 27 & 28 November, UNTAME Day was dwelling to a pop-up Farmer’s Market, organized in partnership with Singapore Young Farmers, Kranji Countryside Association and the Singapore Food Agency.

UNTAME After Dark
3 to 5 December

Reaching out to all evening explorers, SCS prolonged its opening hours until 10.30pm for 3 particular evenings that includes a myriad of actions and performances. Experience science coming to life after darkish at fan favorite exhibitions like Phobia2: The Science of Fear, and Professor Crackitt’s: Light Fantastic Mirror Maze and be awed by the Dazzling Light Installation – a venture in collaboration with Very Small Exhibition – that guarantees a good kaleidoscopic spectacle of lights and colors.

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The twilight expertise will characteristic 4 specifically curated zones:o Flea Zone – Indulge in a bout of purchasing remedy with cubicles that includes eco-friendly merchandise and distributors that champion sustainability
o Activity Zone – Step again into the previous with basic arcade video games like skee rolls or put your data and abilities to the take a look at with our sustainability quiz and neon maze sowing exercise
o Lifestyle Zone – Chill out in an immersive digital surroundings that includes a 360-degree wall projection that can take you on a journey out of this world
o Food Zone – Feast on a connoisseur choice of honest favourites which can be each Instagram in a position & delectableKeep your minds energetic and arms busy by registering for premium experiences, corresponding to the BlasterNight Battle, a excessive adrenaline foam blaster battle to take a look at the teamwork and abilities of buddies and households. Alternatively, register for the premium expertise supported by Building and Construction Authority as half of the iBuildSG initiative – Magic in a Bottle Workshop to give supplies a new sustainable lease of life and find out about useful resource optimisation in the Built Environment sector.Guests may even be entertained by a series of reside programmes, together with musical performances by the younger abilities from NUS & NTU bands, showcases by the winners of the Singapore Science Buskers and premiere of “The Electrified Show”, a spectacular high-tech particular impact present set that includes lights, lasers, multimedia and robotics created by native artist Kiki Tay.UNTAME After Dark shall be facilitated through three sorts of passes with ticket costs ranging between $29.90 to $65, every permitting entry to a completely different set of actions.