Pranjal’s ML algorithm wins him a Silver Award at SSEF 2025.
It is quite interesting that young secondary / high school students are introduced to research, a field traditionally reserved for PhD students and seasoned researchers. Around 350 finalist research works and projects in various scientific domains at SSEF 2025 is a good testament that students are responding to this very well.
My sincere thanks to all organisers and educators and wishing all the best to all participants.
Soon after completing the buffet at Singapore Mathematical Society event, I had to rush off to attend another annual prize giving ceremony organized by the Bengali School, BLLS.
There are two Bengali Schools in Singapore – BLLS and BLCF. My daughter, Deepa, a student of NUS High School, attends BLLS that operates every Saturday for 5 hours to teach only Bengali language.
Today she got 1st prize for the 7th year in a row since Class 1. It is not say she is very good in Bengali language. However, whatever she learnt could not have been possible had Singapore Govt. not facilitate taking Bengali (along with many other languages) as a Mother Tongue till 12th standard.
Singapore is possibly the only country (as far as I know) outside our native places where one can take Bengali as a mother tongue and it counts as a valid/official subject.
Thank you Singapore for helping the small linguistic groups keeping alive their languages.
Thank you all teachers and others involved in running the school, who either take a token salary or volunteer for their love for the language.
Today we attended the Annual Prize Presentation Ceremony 2023 by Singapore Mathematical Society at the NUS High School Auditorium.
Students of Singapore who did well in Singapore Mathematics Projects Festival and Olympiads were awarded. It was attended by many distinguished guests including Professors from Department of Statistics and Data Science (including its Head of Department) at NUS, Department of Mathematics at NUS and other institutes.
My son, Pranjal, got a gold award in Singapore Mathematics Projects Festival (Junior Section). It is one of the two gold awards in this category in Singapore in 2023.
I was amazed at the quantity and quality of the projects. In the Math Olympiad too, Singapore is punching well above its weight, ranking 12th as a country this year.
Thank you all – Singapore Mathematical Society, Ministry of Education, as well as all teachers and mentors involved in training the young students and organizing the events.
Soon after completing the buffet, I had to rush off to attend another annual prize giving ceremony by the Bengali School, BLLS.
My Son, Pranjal’s 5-member team from NUS High School gets their bill “passed” in Singapore Moot Parliament (First Prize in Written Bill).
25 teams from Secondary 3 & 4 (class 9 & 10) from a number of secondary schools made it to the Parliament House on Thursday, 17th Aug 2023. While the 12-page bill from Pranjal’s team passed without debate, some others were contested and a parliamentary debate ensued in the presence of the Deputy Clerk of Parliament (Singapore), professors from NUS law school and other distinguished guests.
Gifted Education Branch of Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore organizes it “to develop students’ interest in parliamentary legislation and develop active citizenry”.
Thank you MOE, NUS Faculty of Law, NUS High School (and other secondary schools), all lawyers and mentors who prepared the students for months on the intricacies of parliamentary legislation.
Singapore is a little dot in the heart of Asia that depends on others even for water. Devoid of natural resources, the only thing that Singapore is left with is her 5-million population. That leaves no option but to nurture them so that they are well-equipped to make the best use of Singapore’s strategic location for her survival and prosperity.
My daughter, Deepa’s team from NUS High won Young Technopreneur Challenge 2023.
30 teams from various secondary schools (sec 2 and sec 3 students) in Singapore came up with a number of STEM projects.
Deepa and 3 other members of her team are in sec 2 (class eight).
Apart from being champion, her team also won the Best Prototype award.
Each of the 4 members received a laptop, sponsored by HP.
Being champion also means they will be funded to take the project forward. It is about generating electricity from lifts.
Thank you JA (Junior Achievement) Singapore, sponsors HP and Southwest CDC, all mentors and all others who were involved in this.
Imbibing techno-entrepreneurial spirit among young minds is a great idea.
My son, Pranjal’s Math project is in the final of SSEF Junior Scientist Category (only finalist in Math category)
SSEF stands for Singapore Science and Engineering Fair.
Pranjal is a secondary 3 (class 9) student of NUS High.
Update 1:
Pranjal’s project got merit award.
Among 30 finalists, 4 projects got distinction and 4 projects got merit award.
Update 2:
Pranjal further worked on his project since SSEF submission and gets gold from Singapore Mathematics Project Festival 2023 in Junior Section.
His work will be published in the upcoming volume of Mathematical Medley.
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