SCS Splash Awards 2022

Reimagines How AI can Empower a Better Singapore

This year, over 150 SCS Splash Awards 2022 student participants expressed their vision for Singapore’s future by demonstrating how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be applied to advance causes in seven challenge tracks, including AI in Blockchain, AI in Community Building, AI for Good, AI in Healthcare, AI in Mental Wellness, AI in Sustainability and Open Category.

Like previous editions, student participants had access to both online and in-person training resources such as complimentary workshops conducted by corporate partners and professional trainers. They also had the opportunity to learn how to deploy their applications on Cloud and include cybersecurity elements in idea implementation.

After an intensive round of evaluation of the final submissions from 12 finalist teams, NUSH eSports Team 1 of NUS High walked away with the top prize in the Pre-tertiary category. Meanwhile, the idea and prototype from trAIge of National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) also wowed the judges, claiming the top spot for the Tertiary category.

Additionally, OCTAC of NUS, ISAD of NUS High and smAIcle of Temasek Polytechnic (TP) and Singapore Polytechnic (SP) won the AI in Community Building, AI in Healthcare and AI in Sustainability challenge tracks respectively. Recognition was also given to IronHeart of TP for the Inclusion of Cybersecurity Elements in Implementation of Idea.

Presiding over SCS Splash Awards physically for the first time, SCS President Mr Sam Liew said, “SCS Splash Awards offers a valuable platform to stimulate and enrich curious young minds. Through providing our students with an opportunity to go through this holistic journey of experiential learning, we hope to create a rich pool of future tech talents for Singapore.”

Student participants from the 12 finalist teams.

PRE-TERTIARY CATEGORY

Winners Team (School) Solution

Champion NUSH eSports Team 1 (NUS High School) To raise awareness concerning microplastics and further efforts in ocean plastic clean-ups, the innovation predicts microplastic concentration in the ocean via various ocean metrics.

1st Runnerup

SearchLah! (Hwa Chong Institution) SearchLah! is a Singlish-based speechto-text assistant which transcribes a mixture of spoken English, Mandarin and dialects into pure English or Mandarin text format. The text will then be passed through a search engine that returns search results to users.

2nd Runnerup

…Ellipsis (Hwa Chong Institution) To aid in the detection of colour blindness amongst Singaporeans, an automated colour blindness test system with a custom voice recognition system is built following the Ishihara test procedure.

TERTIARY CATEGORY

Winners Team (School) Solution

Champion trAIge (NUS and NTU) trAIge turns free-text patient complaints into annotated summaries, allowing nurses to rapidly and holistically assess incoming patients before triage. For preregistered patients with non-acute issues, they can be diverted to an outpatient clinic upon arrival.

1st Runnerup

2nd Runnerup

IronHeart (TP) CardioDash detects left ventricle hypertrophy in 150 milliseconds through the analysis of received ECG signals. Developed using the convolutional neural network algorithm, it has a classification accuracy of 97% with zero false negatives.

smAIcle (TP and SP) SmAIcle is an AI-equipped mobile app that aims to achieve increased recycling and upcycling rates. It not only uses the camera to recognise and segment recyclables, but also provides specific instructions to prepare them for recycling and upcycling.

NUSH eSports Team 1 (NUS High School).

trAIge (NUS and NTU).

Talent showcase.

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5-month

CHALLENGE TRACK

Winners Team (School) Solution

AI in Community Building

(sponsored by Singapore Pools) OCTAC (NUS) UNEON is a platform that enables industry professionals to network with one another. Through exchanging real world career perspectives, they can stay relevant in today’s dynamic workforce and embrace lifelong learning together.

AI in Healthcare

(sponsored by Integrated Health Information Systems)

AI in Sustainability

(sponsored by Huawei) ISAD (NUS High School) ISAD is an accessible and free web application that screens patients for Alzheimer’s Disease. It incorporates the Mini Cognitive Test, which involves the Word Recall Test and Clock Drawing Test, and the Categorical Verbal Fluency Test.

smAIcle (TP and SP) Refer to Tertiary Category – 2nd Runner-up

Inclusion of Cybersecurity Elements in the Implementation of the Idea

(sponsored by Cyber Security Authority) IronHeart (TP) Refer to Tertiary Category – 1st Runner-up

SPECIAL MENTION

Findmates (Ngee Ann Secondary School).

Team (School) Solution

Young Splash Innovator

Findmates (Ngee Ann Secondary School) Findmates app helps caregivers to easily locate people with dementia, and the person with dementia to find their way home using the user-friendly platform.

Judges at the Splash Awards finals.

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Mr Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information and National Development.