A Rube Goldberg machine is an overly complex contraption, designed with humor and a narrative to accomplish a simple task. 13 engineering students from PSB Academy managed to break the current record with 102 steps on 4 Sep 2021 in their STEM Campus. And that was after countless iterations and adjustments. Read More »
Since 21 Aug, visitors to Ci Yuan Community Club were asked to place a piece each onto the 4.8m-by-2m jigsaw puzzle outside the Performance Theatre. The final pieces were placed by PM Lee, the Ci Yuan Grassroots Adviser and children who are beneficiaries of school essentials from the CC on 4 Sep 2021. A total of 1,716 people were ... Read More »
Fajar Secondary School celebrated Teachers’ Day by setting 3 domino toppling records. On 2 Sep 2021, 675 library books, 800 Marigold drinks,and 660 boxes of Ritz biscuits were toppled, all in their first runs for the day. Of course, practice runs were conducted several times beforehand to perfect these records. All 3 domino set-ups incorporated the heart sign ... Read More »
A group of people went on a kayaking challenge to raise funds for the Children Cancer Foundation. The journey covered a distance of 150 km with about 30 hours of paddling from 27 to 30 Aug 2021, stopping or rowing passed 28 islands around Singapore. Shirley Marcialina Lim initiated the feat and SeaOps sponsored the kayaks and training. ... Read More »
Sancy Suraj typed the names of all 118 elements of the periodic tables from memory in 4 min 19 sec. This was carried out on the online Sporcle platform. The feat was his sixth Singapore record, carried out at Trehaus@Funan on 28 Aug 2021. Read More »
Niyah Mahapatra is 6 years and 3 months and goes to Nexus International School. On 28 Aug 2021, at Trehaus @ Funan, she recited 202 digits of Tau from memory. Like Pi, Tau has an infinite string of never-repeating digits, and is often used as a test of memory. Niyah has memory training at The Umonics Method. Read More »
Sharina Kaur Shah, head teacher of The Umonics Method, achieved 1,260 digits in her recall of Tau digits on 27 Aug 2021. Earlier this year, she also achieved the record of 1,119 digits of the Golden Ratio (Phi), another infinite number. Read More »
