The current example of this programme happening, is a FaceBook group (click HERE). This programme provides a holistic approach towards robotic education, with considerations for many angles towards student engagement and enrichment. Please email us at
for more information.
2009 Programmes are being readied for the web. Watch this space.
New rates also reflect the new services included in each package. Every course will be made available to schools under the Elpmis Hand-in-Hand programme, at these standard rates (no frills rates, no GST):
Num of students
Num of trainers
Rate per student
5-9
1
S$18.80
10-15
1
S$15.50
16 and above
2
S$12.20
PREMIUM Elpmis Hand-in-Hand
For simplicity, we also offer complete support at the premium rate of S$200 per hour, no GST, that includes the following:
Worksheet for each student
Photo journal for the student's life book
Certificate for each student
ELPMIS membership with discounts for our
events
competitions
products
external courses
and more!
NEW PROGRAMMES FOR 2009
(watch this space!)
Disclaimer: We reserve the right to adjust course content, product range and services. The information on this page cannot legally bind Elpmis International Pte Ltd, her staff, shareholders and directors to delivering the above stated.
EDB's report, Economic Development Board (linked here)
We would like to thank EDB of course for helping this industry grow with more publicity. It will greatly help our students eventually, especially when this industry helps the economy, thus putting our students on the forefront of this New Technology.
Note that the report is slightly inaccurate. We sponsored the SCGS team members and teacher only. The other team members who represented Singapore paid for themselves.
We are listed on GeBIZ and Vendors!
We are registered with GeBIZ.gov.sg and Vendors.gov.sg. Payment from schools can be done through cash, cheque or MOE GIRO DIRECT. You can invite us to quote via GeBIZ or by emailing
.
On 2009 11th Jan: Heartware-Network is taking over as the the Operational Partner and will run the FLL in Central Library (Bras Basah).
In 2007 14th Dec: Elpmis was the Operational Partner of F.I.R.S.T., and organized this national event. It was conducted in the National University of Singapore, School of Computing (NUS, SoC) under the umbrella of the NUS School of Computing Infocomm Fest. Prize presentation was in the prestigious grand University Cultural Centre (UCC). By 22nd Oct 2007, there are over 50 teams registered. In total, there were over 70 teams who competed. The champion team External Fusion went on to US and became the first international team in 10 years to get the top Championship Award in FLL World Festival.
In 2006: 80+ teams participated in this event conducted in Parkway Parade.
In 2005: 80+ teams participated when conducted in Rulang Primary School.
An international competition conducted with LEGO and US FIRST. Counterparts come from many countries in Europe, Asia Pacific and the United States. Lego NXT recommended for this competition.
There are more than one competition in this combined Robotic Games.
Suitable events for Primary and Secondary students are: Micromouse, Schools Robotics Competition (You can use any robotic kit, including LEGO MINDSTORMS. Playing field is available from a private company if you want the exact plastic surface).
March
ITE Robot Challenge
Organised by ITE College Central (Yishun Campus), with finals in ITE Tampines, in 2006, a Rescue Mission competition was staged. It is an annual event driven by ITE. Requires any robot you can build to carry weights from one point to another. Simple yet challenging. 2007 onwards, the competition is evolving.
This is open to Secondary school students. May require special robots.
This is conducted as a time-limited programming competition. Participants are allowed to use various languages such as Pascal, C and C++ to code their solutions. Problems are given and programs must be created within a fixed time. Only the best come out of the experience victorious. Hence the prestige tied to this competition.
International finals for the Robofest events worldwide. This will be conducted in US Michigan's Lawrence Technological University.
Robofest is an annual autonomous robotics competition for students in grades 5 - 12. Robofest challenges teams of students to design, build, and program robots to compete in playful missions and exhibitions. Students have fun while learning computer programming, engineering, math, and science. Robofest is a program of Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA.
Changed to FIRST Tech Challenge, without tying up closely with the Vex robotic kit any more.
In 2006: Congratulations to Admiralty Secondary, CHIJ Toa Payoh Secondary, Millennia Institute for winning top honours in this international event held in the United States of America
Proprietary robot, iRobo, distributed by a company. Competition conducted before in Nov 2005. Has business in Indonesia and teams participating from there. No further information yet for future events.
June
Space Robotics Competition 2005
In 2007: No news of a repeat in 2007 yet.
In 2006: Congratulations to Swiss Cottage Secondary 2 teams and CHIJ Toa Payoh Secondary for winning top 3 positions in the Space Robotics Competition by the British Council which saw 7 teams competiting this time.
In 2008: RoboCup Junior Australia is collaborating with RoboJunior Society (Singapore) to bring the Australian events to Singapore in the form of RoboDance 2008 (see November row below).
In 2007: No information yet as of this update (20 Dec 2006).
In 2006: Did not materialise in 2006. Was to be organised by the RoboCup Singapore Committee, this event is recognised by the international RoboCup Federation. It will be an annual event driven by lecturers, professors and the private sector working together following internation rules. Comprises of leagues such as the Small-sized, Humanoid, Simulation and Junior (Rescue, Dance, Soccer).
In 2008: 4th July. This annual event promises to be a no-fuss, no-preparation-needed, afternoon of joy. Co-organised and conducted in Catholic High Secondary.
In 2007: 21 Jun, last week of June holidays. It is becoming an annual event in the same spirit as all open platform robotic competitions worldwide. Co-organised and conducted in Catholic High Secondary.
In 2006: National competition that grooms winners for international events in future years. Completed with 10 teams successfully in Spring Singapore. Coorganised with Nan Hua High School. This is the new face of RoboJunior 2005 below.
June
RoboJunior 2005 June
National competition that grooms winners for international events in future years. Completed with 14 primary and 5 secondary school teams successfully in West Grove Primary and CHIJ Secondary (Toa Payoh). Coorganised with RoboJunior Society (Singapore), ELPMIS Consultancy, RoboE and ActionGlobe Pte Ltd.
Dance : 1st-Rulang Pri 2nd-West Grove Pri Search & Rescue : 1st-Rulang 2nd-Raffles Institution Soccer : 1st-Whitley Sec 2nd-Crescent Girls'
In 2008: No information from the organisers as of this update (16 May 2008).
In 2007: Invitation letters has been sent out. If you did not receive any, you can always contact us for more information.
In 2006: International competition with invited teams from Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and schools from all over Thailand itself. 91 teams competed. Japan won both 1-on-1 and 2-on-2 Soccer events. Singapore came in 3rd place in 1-on-1 Soccer event. Singapore also participated in Rescue mission. Other events included Dance and a Pac man styled Simulation league. Combined school teams from Peirce Secondary and Temasek Secondary represented Singapore's effort this year.
July 2006, June 2005
W3 Cluster Competition
2007 schedule not available yet as of this update (20 Dec 2006).
A cluster competition for W3 cluster 7 primary schools.
July 2005
St. Michael's School's Competition
2006 onwards: No such event being planned as of this update (20 Dec 2006). Please update us if you have more information.
In 2005: A build-on-the-spot, bring-no-robotic-kit, secret-mission-released-that-very-day type of national competition for invited schools only. 18 teams from 7 schools participated in this event as part of MOE ExcelFEST 2005. Congratulations to the winners.
Champion : North View Primary School Runner-Ups : 2 teams from St Andrew's Junior
In 2007: No news as of this update (20 Dec 2006). Please monitor their website for more information.
Congratulations to the winners in 2004 East Zone Robotics Challenge held in Victoria Junior College. 1st-Bedok South Sec, 2nd-Damai Sec, 3rd-Bedok South Sec. Lego RCX used for this competition.
MOE used to organise this programming competition. Singapore Polytechnic has taken over since 2004. Group Round only since 2004 and IT Quiz Round, no individual round. Turbo C++, Java 1.4 and Free Pascal are all in use for 2005 onwards.
Australia's national RoboCupJunior event using LEGO is as exciting as any international robotic event. The continent alone provides enough student participants to become the envy of many other events, this is an impressive event indeed.
Supported by Media Authority of Singapore (MDA), this event is now organised with RoboJunior Society (Singapore) in conjunction with RoboCup Junior Australia. Partner Schools are CHIJ Secondary (Toa Payoh) and Temasek Secondary. Main Sponsor is iSHOP by Club 21. Elpmis is also proud to be a sponsor of this event.
With RoboDance, students will get to make their robots dance according to their choreographed video and music. Mac's DJ software will help to let them scratch their discs and perform while their robotic and human team members rock.
Once RoboCup Junior Australia came in to support, we now have Rescue and Soccer events that students can try their hand on as well.
130+ people gathered in iSHOP for this competition. With student DJs, dancing robots, human dancers and their specially produced video in the background, the event was fun and has little boring moments. It will be conducted again in 2009 June.
Has been running annual since then, for invited teams only.
In 2004, only invited teams are eligible to represent Singapore against the international participants. Lego RCX used for this competition.
November
Cluster level-Amateur Roboventors Challenge
In 2007: No news as of this update (20 Dec 2006)
In 2004: Congratulations to the winners of this west zone competition. Especially Dazhong Pri and West Grove Pri. This competition is organised by Boon Lay Garden Primary School. Lego RCX used for this competition.
November
NERC
A private competition using their own specialised robots. Modelled closely after USA Trinity College's FireFighting competition.
In 2005: Organised by Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Participated by 32 teams in 2005. Java programming of virtual robots fighting each other on screen. Has elements of artificial intelligence, game physics, trigonometry, cartesian coordinates and programming involved.
November 2007
Robofest Singapore
Finals in Singapore were conducted via video link live! With US watching our teams' performance. Our teams were victorious and received awards flown in all the way form USA.
In 2007: There will be no second round. The 2007 qualifying rounds for 2008 US finals will be in November 1st week of 2007 year end holidays around Nov 23, 24 2007.
"I was so happy to hear that the Singapore Robofest event went very well. Congratulations on your huge sucess!!! We are sure your event motivated many young talented students in Singapore to learn more. Also, we are certain "ELPMIS" is "simply" the best organization in educating young minds. Thank you so much for your time, resources, and efforts. " Prof CJ Chung, Lawrence Technological University. Robofest(TM) 2007 is a program of Lawrence Technological University. Southfield. MI. USA. www.robofest.net. All rights reserved.
In 2005: FIRA robot soccer, a brainchild of Prof. Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST, began in 1995 and the first international championship was held at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea in 1996. And Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA) was established on June 5, 1997 during the micro-robot soccer tournament (MiroSot'97) held at KAIST in Daejeon, Korea. FIRA Robot World Cup is held every year on global-scale. FIRA Robot World Congress is held along with FIRA Cup, where all participating teams will submit and present papers on their robots and schemes for sharing the expertise and technology for building the soccer robots. This event has no limits on the number of participating teams per institution.
For children who would like to join midway, you are free to register through your school directly. This is only possible for this very basic course. You can also email us at
with your children's particulars and we'll forward it to your school for following up.
As the children progress into intermediate and advanced levels, they must join at the very beginning of those courses only.
Avondale Grammar School Basic / Intermediate Fusion Class
Fusion Session Brief
Basic
Intermediate
1. Programming Introduction
Build a one-motored robot & learn about gears.
Learn the basic lesson and also get introduced to creating a Computer Robot Program and saving progress.
2. Challenge!
Build a two-motored robot and have a mini race by doing on-board programming.
3. Programming for Accuracy
Build a two-motored robot and Learn about Accuracy through Timing using On-board programming
Build a two-motored robot and Learn about Accuracy through Rotations using a Computer Program.
4. Challenge!
Build a two-motored robot and have a Challenge:
Timing the robot to turn/stop accurately, and
Build a two-motored robot and have a Challenge:
Using Rotations to accurately stop the robot in a confined target area.
5. Programming to Detect the wall!
Build a two-motored robot and learn about the touch / ultrasonic functions.
6. Final Challenge Part 1
A Revisionary Multi-Challenge that requires them to:
Use Gears to finish faster
Use Gears to push a weighted object
7. Final Challenge Part 2
A Revisionary Multi-Challenge that requires them to:
Use Rotations and/or timing to avoid an obstacle and reach destination
Use a touch/ultrasonic sensor to sense the wall and reverse.
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