Dear Educators
We’ve put together a menu to better support your school in outreach activities moving forward so feel free to reach out to us and we’ll be happy to put together a memorable meal for you and your students!
We’ve put together a menu to better support your school in outreach activities moving forward so feel free to reach out to us and we’ll be happy to put together a memorable meal for you and your students!
A delectable mix of all things sugar and spice, our learning journeys are sure to leave you wanting more!
Using only the finest cuts, our workshops are tender and juicy to the last bite. Indulge and treat yourself to one of TP’s best offerings.
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Duration: 90 mins
Target Audience: Upper secondary school students
Synopsis: What do you do with the cooking oil after you used it for cooking? Do you know that these waste cooking oil can be given a new life and converted into a renewable fuel, hence reducing the need for fossil fuels? Come and join us to learn and discover how waste cooking oil can be processed and converted into biodiesel and used as a fuel in vehicles, generators and boilers. You will also get the opportunity to visit our Chemical Pilot Plant where students in the Diploma in Chemical Engineering get to acquire hands-on learning about biodiesel production and waste-water treatment.
Duration: 90 mins
Target Audience: Upper secondary school students
Synopsis: Dengue fever has long been a major public health concern in Singapore. There is currently no sustainable preventive approach against dengue fever and vaccination is potentially the most effective control strategy. This workshop, organised by the Diploma in Medical Biotechnology, will educate students with the basic knowledge of dengue fever and the dengue virus, the difficulty of producing an ideal vaccine for dengue, and the current progress of dengue vaccine development. A hands-on session will let students use an immunology method to determine the strength of immune responses to dengue in the body.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper secondary school students
Synopsis: Are you curious about how to make personal care products, such as hand sanitizer, hand cream and soap? What are the various ingredients used for these products? How do you formulate eco-friendly products that will not harm the environment? How can we produce them in large quantities? Come join us for this hands-on workshop where you will get the opportunity to make your own personalised products. You will also get the opportunity to visit our teaching facilities where students in the Diploma in Chemical Engineering get to learn diverse skills sets such as chemistry, process control and engineering.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper secondary school students
Synopsis: Have you ever wondered what’s inside our medicines that help us get well when we are sick? What are the various ingredients present inside our medicines and what are their respective functions? Come join us for this hands-on workshop where you will get the opportunity to learn how to prepare medicinal products such as cream that is safe for patients’ use. You will also learn how medications are correctly dispensed to patients to assure that patients use their medications safely and recover from their ailments. You will also get the opportunity to visit our laboratory facilities where students in the Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science get to learn about pharmaceutical manufacturing and analysis.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper secondary school students
Synopsis: How exactly does the ordinary cocoa bean transform into mouth-watering, heavenly tasting chocolate? Come join us and discover the processes that go into making chocolate. You will also find out why some chocolates just taste better than others. You will get the opportunity to visit our laboratory and kitchen facilities where students in the Diploma in Food, Nutrition & Culinary Science get to learn baking and culinary technology, food processing, nutritional assessment and more!
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper secondary school students
Synopsis: This workshop will showcase the different techniques used in the diagnosis of parasites in companion animals. Participants will learn about and help in the diagnosis of common parasites (furmites, ear mites, roundworms, tapeworms, etc) encountered in a veterinary practice. Come join us to find out ways on how to prevent common parasites!
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper secondary school students
Synopsis: How can we create a skinny cheesecake? Come join us and discover how to make healthy and yet delicious desserts. You will get the opportunity to visit our laboratory and kitchen facilities where students in the Diploma in Food, Nutrition & Culinary Science get to learn baking and culinary technology, food processing, nutritional assessment and more!
Duration: 90 mins
Target Audience: Secondary 3 and 4 students
Synopsis: Ace that EAE interview with exclusive tips and tricks! Gain insight as you discover more about improving your application write-ups, interview and portfolio.
Duration: 90 mins
Synopsis: Ever wondered what it takes to start a business? “Let’s start with a plan… a BUSINESS plan” helps to kick-start your entrepreneurship journey: creating a business proposition, curating your products or services, and finally showcasing your virtual shop.
Duration: 60 mins
Target Audience: Secondary 3 and 4 students
Synopsis: Step into the world of logistics, an ESSENTIAL Industry! Gain insights into the supply chain through an interactive activity and quiz.
Duration: 60 mins
Target Audience: Secondary 3 and 4 students
Synopsis: How do economics affect you? What is inflation and what does it mean to us? Learn more about economics and the impact it has on our daily lives with this fun and interactive workshop.
Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Secondary 3 and 4 students (minimum 20 pax, maximum 30 pax)
Synopsis: Are you ready to unlock some secrets behind a successful O2O commerce strategy? Discover the ways companies integrate online to offline to create a unified customer experience.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Secondary 3 and 4 students (minimum 20 pax, maximum 30 pax)
Synopsis: Participants will be introduced to the dynamic Food & Beverage Industry. Besides the careers in the industry, participants will be introduced to ingredients and help to develop recipes of success through a game.
Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Secondary 3 and 4 students
Synopsis: Kickstart your journey to becoming an effective social media content creator. Learn about the emerging social media platforms and walk away with content creation tips.
Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Secondary 3 and 4 students (minimum 20 pax, maximum 30 pax)
Synopsis: Discover how to captivate audiences through persuasive techniques like emotional appeal, celebrity endorsement, and humour. Learn to analyse and create brand stories that leave a lasting impact.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Secondary 3 and 4 students
Synopsis: Learn more about budgeting and money management through an interactive board game of life.
Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Secondary 3 and 4 students
Synopsis: Gain insight into the exciting world of hospitality and tourism! Take a tour of our tourism academy and discover how you can be a curator of memorable experiences through an experiential activity.
Synopsis: In Design, love rules. Passion for the right course of study will ensure that you have the attitude and stamina needed for the rigor of design studies. This experience will give you insights into the different courses available at the School of Design, the unique highlights and learning opportunities that each course presents. From fashion to architecture to graphic design to experience design and film studies, you will learn about how designers are in demand not only in the design sector but more so now in the non-design sector. See how you can play a role as designers in creating tomorrow.
Synopsis: Beyond the technical skills, what do you need to succeed in the world of design? Designers, no matter the field of expertise, are multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary creatives. The world we live in today is increasingly shaped by design. And designers who can move between their fields into emerging areas of tech, finance, culture, policy are already in demand. Meet lecturers and design practitioners who will share their work and their journey in design. Through this experience, you will gain a better understanding of different career opportunities in design and be better able to make good choices in picking a course that is right for you.
Synopsis: What happens in class at the School of Design? Come for an immersive, interactive experience which takes you through the different facilities, studios, classes and workshops that make design studies so rich and exciting. There is never a dull day in the School of Design. Peek at the work, visit an exhibition, observe how design students work and how they are taught. This hands-on tour will take you beyond just a talk and give you the inside look at life in the School of Design.
Synopsis: Moving beyond just the School of Design, meet the young designers and visit the studios they work in. Design studios, advertising agencies, brand agencies, social media firms, architectural studios, film editing suites and more. Let us take you beyond the classroom on an excursion to real design studios. Meet the practitioners, see the work they do and say hello to our alumni at the same time. This opportunity to go beyond the School of Design will expose you to work -life cultures and environments of designers.
Synopsis: Have you ever wanted to bring your favourite movie or game characters to life in 3D? Now you can with Womp - a user-friendly web-based application that allows you to create stunning 3D masterpieces. This fun and interactive workshop is sure to inspire. Don't miss it!
Synopsis: Pottery is not just for artists, it is for everyone. It helps one to express and explore one’s emotions, enhances one’s creativity and stimulates one’s mind. Explore the possibilities of using clay where you will design and create your own ceramic ware in this hands-on workshop.
Synopsis: What do all difficult-to-navigate apps and websites have in common? Bad UX design, which leaves users feeling frustrated. Dive into the principles of good UX design, one of today’s most sought-after digital workplace roles, and discover the secrets of creating exceptional user experiences and delightful digital interactions!
Synopsis: Learn the fundamentals of mobile videography in this interactive workshop. Participants will be introduced to the basics of video-making, starting from the ingredients needed to tell a good story, understanding the three stages of filmmaking, basic camera, sound and editing techniques, all the way to posting the video online.
Synopsis: Dip your toes into the world of natural indigo dyeing and bring home a unique creation of your own! This beginner-friendly workshop offers a comprehensive understanding behind the making of the colour indigo. Get hands-on experience with the traditional tools and techniques. Be inspired to introduce more sustainable crafts and practices in everyday life.
Synopsis: Brands are taking steps to be more responsible in the way they design, create, and sell merchandise.
Get inspired and explore fundamental concepts in sustainable fashion through hands-on experimentation of upcycled materials. Design innovative fashion collages in 2D and digital formats, and unlock the 4-step formula for creating visually captivating and sustainable fashion portfolios.
Synopsis: Take a crack at creating your own unique advertising and branding poster visuals! From applying the artistic charms of Risograph and the digital precision of Photoshop and Illustrator to discovering the principles of good typography and layout composition, get ready to be inspired and unleash your creativity.
Synopsis: Have a blast experimenting, and creating endless unique visuals with creative coding! We’ll take you through the fundamentals of programming that will give you the power to generate and manipulate captivating visuals for installations, projections and advertising.
Synopsis: Get tips on how you can make your EAE application stand out! Hear from our lecturers and students as they share more about putting together your portfolio, preparing for the EAE interviews and crafting your application write-up.
Synopsis: This course will enable you to learn the precise, quick and easy way to edit videos. It will prepare you with the know-how about identifying, arranging and putting together your photos and movies together with music and simple video transition effects that will impress your audience at work or at home. With the right approach and techniques, you don’t need to be a professional to produce your movie.
This course will be using Da Vinci Software.
Include a visit to our Centres of Excellence during your learning journey to learn more about the latest developments in various areas of technology. A visit to each centre takes about 20 to 30 mins.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Want to know more about the roles that you can assume in the aviation and aerospace sector? Get enlightened on some of the “best jobs” and “hidden careers” in the
industry! We will take you on a tour of our hangar to view some of our aircraft systems, share with you what makes a drone fly and then hand over the controls of a drone flight simulator to you!
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Do you have to bring in the laundry or close the windows whenever it rains? This gadget will alert you to do just that. You will learn how a transistor and a few other electronic components should be used. You will have hands-on to patch a circuit on a breadboard.
Duration: 2 hours
Synopsis: There are many ways to make buildings energy efficient to save costs and leave a smaller carbon footprint. This workshop culminates with a creative design activity
where students attempt to design a classroom that requires zero energy!
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and bioenergy have the potential to replace fossil fuels in future. The transition to renewable energy sources is driven by the need to reduce our carbon footprint and to limit global warming. Participants will have hands-on experience in using solar panels and/or fuel cells to generate electricity. Participant will also have a chance to make use of instruments to measure voltage and current, and understand the parameters affecting the electrical output from these energy sources.
Duration: 2 hours
Synopsis: A SMART nation can be built using a model-based process called Building Information Modelling (BIM). Learn how facility managers use a BIM tool to design and maintain a small facility.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: You will learn the basics of genomics. Genes store a vast amount of information and gene activities can bring about illnesses and diseases. You will learn in this workshop how genetic information in cells can be decoded by studying the protein composition using biomedical equipment.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Cobots are robots designed to work safely alongside people. This workshop aims to introduce you to the world of Cobots. You will learn to program and operate these robots with a Teach Pendant (Tablet) and get to see the possibilities of using such robots at our TP Robotics and Automation Centre (RAC).
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Students will have hands-on practice to assemble their own electronic circuit by soldering components onto a Printed Circuit Board. Students will learn to read circuit schematics, identify the different electronic components and acquire awareness of product development.
Duration: 2 hours
Synopsis: Architects use simulation extensively to study how attri- butes of a building, such as its orientation, building ma- terials used and even the usual wind direction, affect the energy consumption even before it is built. In this work- shop, students will experiment, perform simulations and learn to analyze the results.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: This is an introductory workshop to micro-controllers. Students will learn to write simple programs for the Arduino Uno board to control motors, capture readings from sensors and move a simple robot.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: In this workshop, you will learn the basics of supervised machine learning. You will learn about logistic regression and how to transform the “logit” function to the “sigmoid” function. You will then teach your machine to analyse data – such as a set of cancer data, so that whenever it is given a new data set, it is able to predict whether a tumour is likely to be malignant or benign.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Students will be taken on a journey to get a glimpse of what they would learn in the course – from flight operations to airport management, and then to the basic flight controls of a plane.
Duration: 2 hours
Synopsis: Students will learn to create and render a building design model using a Building Information Modelling (BIM) software. They will have hands-on to be an architect for a day.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: This is a beginners’ course to the Python language. Students will learn the basic syntax of the language, know where Python can be used and the reasons for her huge popularity. Students will be able to explore further on their own after the course.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Students will learn to build a smart system that can gather data from different sensors and then make an intelligent decision.
Duration: 2 hours
Synopsis: Start your journey towards a Sustainable Future! This workshop introduces concepts of “Sustainable Engineering Design”. Students will brainstorm and propose ideas for their “Dream Green School”.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: In this workshop, students will be given an overview of microcontrollers and Internet of Things (IoT). Students will be guided to program their microcontroller and enable their “Thing” to communicate through the Internet.
Duration: 2 hours
Synopsis: What roles do engineers and architects have in the built environment industry? How do architectural drawings facilitate the communications between these 2 parties? Find out which role you are more inclined to.
Duration: 1 hour
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students & Teachers
Synopsis: Attendees will be able to
Duration: 1 hour
Target Audience: Sec 3s and 4s, Higher Nitec in Early Childhood Education, Teachers
Synopsis: Students will be able to explore the concepts behind course through creative expressions in Art activities, namely Music and Movement and Visual Arts.
During our hands on activities through ‘Music and Movement’, students will have opportunities to explore the different types of musical instruments (traditional and conventional) to form an expressive representation of rhythmic music.
Additionally, activities in Visual Arts, will allow students to engage in meaningful art making creations to promote their understanding in the pedagogical trends of cognitive and artistic development in the early years.
Duration: 2 days
Target Audience: Teachers & Parents
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Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary Students, Higher Nitec in Event Management, Higher Nitec in Service Management, Higher Nitec in Hospitality Operations, Nitec in Business Services, Nitec in Community Care and Social Services
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Duration: 2 days
Target Audience:Upper Secondary Students, Higher Nitec in Event Management, Higher Nitec in Service Management, Higher Nitec in Hospitality Operations, Nitec in Business Services, Nitec in Community Care and Social Services
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Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary Students/ teachers
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Include a visit to our Centres of Excellence during your learning journey to discover more about the latest developments in specialised areas like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data analytics, digital forensics, immersive media and software development. A visit to each centre takes about 20 to 30 mins.
Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Using cryptography puzzles, students will discover how cryptography is used to keep information safe online. They will also learn about malware, the harm it can cause, and how to prevent malware attacks. Students will also participate in a malware quiz and have a change to visit some cybersecurity facilities.
We offer customised workshops – for example on using Python programming for web development projects etc. These customised workshops are particularly helpful for students taking Computing as an O Level subject.
Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Students will be introduced to Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically ‘image classification’. They will learn how to train a machine to recognise images and gain fundamental understanding of AI. If time permits, they will get a chance to see various AI projects.
Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Students will discover how data can help uncover information about people and situations. They will create their own visualisation dashboard and commence on an exciting journey to learn about the power and value of data to people, businesses and organisations.
Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Delve into game genres, researching and exploring their diverse aspects. Analyse and discuss selected games, uncovering fascinating features and cutting-edge technologies behind game development. Through this interactive experience, gain a solid introduction to the dynamic field of immersive media and game development, fostering both creative and technical skills.
Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis: Students will learn to develop a fun and interactive mobile app using a web-based tool. They will discover the fundamentals of coding and application logic. This workshop provides an excellent introduction to programming and app development.
Duration: 3 hours
Target Audience: Upper Secondary School Students
Synopsis:In this workshop, students will embark on an exciting journey into the world of generative artificial intelligence (AI). With a primary focus on ChatGPT, participants will discover the capabilities and applications of this technology while exploring its potential for learning and creativity. Through interactive discussions, hands-on activities, and engaging demonstrations, students will better understand how AI can enhance their educational experience and foster innovation.
Do get in touch with the outreach officer assigned to your school should you be keen on having your next meal with us! Alternatively, you can also make your reservations via outreach@tp.edu.sg. We’re also open to arranging special tables for yourself and your colleagues for learning journeys and workshops. We hope to see you soon!
