IDEAS Hub

Innovation initiatives at UWCSEA support students to take their original concepts from ideation to launch, learning from both their successes and mistakes in pursuit of the UWC mission. The IDEAS Hub at Dover and the UWCSEA East Innovation ecosystem, encourages students to internalise an innovator’s mindset, think critically and to connect and collaborate with our local community.

Innovation@East supports students to take their original concepts from ideation to launch, learning from both their successes and mistakes.

Kate Woodford, Senior Marketing Manager

Both campuses have been awarded Green Mark Platinum Super Low Energy certification by Singapore’s BCA, recognising our efforts to maximise the sustainable design features of each campus. On Dover, many of these were incorporated during the 5-year campus rejuvenation, completed in 2016. A long-term commitment and significant effort saw existing structures (some dating back to the 1960s) retrofitted during the renovation, thanks to the efforts of our operations teams with support from our donors. Students are engaged in maximising these sustainable features, gaining valuable learning as changemakers in action.
 

At the young age of 10, Zara K already has an impressively full plate. She is a techie, a traveler, and not just a girl coder, but also the founder of an up-and-coming coding club set to be launched at UWCSEA East in August 2019.

Looking around their Computer Science classes, a group of five High School girls, Jaanvi Chopra, Jamie Lin, Disha Mohta, Tanisha Sethi and Gaurika Sawheny, couldn’t help but notice that the number of female students was incredibly low.

"Loose parts possess infinite play possibilities. They offer multiple rather than single outcomes: no specific set of directions accompanies them; no single result is inevitable.” Daly, L. and Beloglovsky, M.