The Lighthouse Programme is a project with the aim to empower children’s creative exploration – for themselves, for their family and friends, or for the world. With the power to create, children will be able to chart their own future in this increasingly uncertain world. The characteristics of the programme are the focus on self-directedness, making and real-world expertise. Participants decide what they want to create and take their ideas beyond a piece of paper through learning by doing. They also have the opportunity to learn from people with professional industry experience.
Self Directed: Participants decide what they want to create, along the theme of “Make the Change”. Mentors do not teach but support the participants’ exploration.
Making: Participants take their ideas on paper and make them come alive. Learning by doing, participants pick up the creator mindset and making skills, in particular digital making skills.
Real-World Expertise: Participants will have the opportunity to learn from people with professional industry experience.
I like to play games especially first-person shooters (FPS) and I would love my dear mother to enjoy what I like too, but the usual FPS’s screen movements cause her to feel dizzy and even have migraines.
Watch Lighthouse chit-chat with Danzel
MediMind is the first wearable medicine dispenser of its kind in the world. MediMind aims to let each elderly person feel more like an individual, by integrating an already common product in their daily lives - a wristwatch, with a medicine dispenser. This will help them be more independent, giving them a sense of autonomy, empowering them to live life more freely. I would like to develop Medimind to a full-scale project at VIVITA and also explore other wearables. I will work with the resources and amazing mentors and through them, I hope to continue developing my ideas.
Shoolect is a machine that will help to collect tennis balls from the ground and also launch the balls to players in the court while training. I was inspired to create this prototype as I play volleyball, and I realised how inconvenient it is for players to constantly have to run to retrieve the ball in a large court. Hence, I am working towards my goal of creating a machine that will provide ease and convenience to tennis players. I ended up working on a tennis ball mechanism as this is my first prototype and I wanted to work on something that would be manageable. I intend to continue to finish my project and work with my mentor and see how we can improve on it and benefit others who are in the sports industry.
Watch Lighthouse chit-chat with Koko
Watch Lighthouse chit-chat with Deena
Watch Lighthouse chit-chat with Shivani
Peng You aims to help the elderly not feel lonely when they are alone at home. It is a robotic companion with chat bot functions to communicate with the elderly. It can also detect when an elderly experiences a fall and it will send a signal to the social services personnel when that happens. I want to create this product because I feel that there are a lot of elderly in this world who are lonely as some live alone in a one-room-flat or have no one to visit them. This makes them prone to elderly depression which may lead to more issues down the road. To curb this, I hope my product will be able to communicate with the elderly and help ease their loneliness. It’s amazing if I will be able to have my target audience try out my product and tell me areas to improve on and how I can make it better so I can change it to meet their needs as they are my top priority.
My project started with the well-being of people in Singapore in mind. I resonate with the amount of stress people face on a daily basis and I wanted to do something, even if it was ever so little, to help them out. It takes the form of a scented pineapple keychain. It is portable, and can be used anytime and anywhere. It has bumps for acupressure, and I’ve added scents as part of aromatherapy, and also made it roly-poly, just for the fun element. Through this prototype, I wish to help alleviate just a little bit of Singaporean’s stress and make everyone a little happier. It was a fresh and new experience watching my pineapple come to life with all the features that I’ve incorporated into it. This was really a memorable and fun journey.
