Smart cities challenge    Role: team member                                          LO7,  LO2, LO4

” Smart City Programme & Challenge is a program specifically designed for UWCSEA students by Hyundai and Kia teams. Designed to help students discover and learn about innovative developments in Smart Cities; providing them with real-world insights delivered by renowned experts. Participants will also get to discover Hyundai’s innovative vision for urban mobility.”

Schedule: 19 Feb (Fri), 4pm – 4.45pm: Information Webinar
26 Feb (Fri), 4pm – 6pm: Online session
5 Mar (Fri), 4pm – 6pm: Online session
12 Mar (Fri), 4pm – 5pm: Online session
19 Mar (Fri), 4pm – 5pm: Online session
19 – 27 Mar Team preparation and ideation
27 Mar (Sat), Full Day: Challenge

LO7 [Recognise and consider the ethical implications of choices and actions] – During the online sessions of this CAS project, I learned about Hyundai’s plans for smart cities in the future. These sessions educated me on their imagination of future hi-tech cities, and I was both shocked and amazed by some of the concept videos they showed us of their concept vehicle (the PBV). The PBV is an autonomous (self-driving) vehicle that can come to you, take you places, automatically detect and avoid high-traffic areas, can be converted into possibly portable clinics, restaurants, and gyms. These made me reflect on the ethical implications of designing smart cities such as this, first and foremost being the problems of resource scarcity, the developing countries, and global warming.

LO2 [Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process] – This smart cities challenge was difficult at first, as the concepts and the product we were planning to design is something completely new to me, and a field I have not explored much of. Our team created a plan that we executed to a T by dividing up tasks and sections of the presentation we need to each complete. This improved my collaboration skills as working together has not been a very strong suit for me in the past, however, during this project I was able to effectively work with my colleagues to produce a good quality presentation. Another skills I worked on during the creation of this project is my ability to research and use CAD, a computer software design tool which allowed me to visually display and represent my idea. Furthermore, I developed my ability to communicate and present when we presented in front of the Hyundai, Kia and school judges – although it was a little intimidating – I persevered and made me sure to effectively communicate my ideas while being confident, clear, and concise.

LO4 [Show commitment and perseverance in CAS experiences] – I resiliently worked with my colleagues to produce a good presentation, and although we all had other work during this project time – we still committed to each online session and our in-person meetings so that we could work together to produce a solid idea and work through the ideology for a successful presentation. Moreover, I showed my desire to advance and work as a team by setting this team up and brainstorming ideas even when we were not in the session. It took a while but I thought of the final smart gym idea and discussed it with my colleagues later before we chose the idea and developed it more thoroughly.

Below is the certificate I recieved from placing 2nd in the challenges, as well as 3 of the renders we produced using CAD of our smart gym ideas.

 

Smart cities challenge certificate (2nd place, Samh Jain)

 

 

 

 

  Stackable smart gym

 

Renders (digital artwork using CAD: Fusion 360of our product design) Portable PBV situated smart gym that can autonomously travel to you for a workout (possible integration with future Hyundai and Kia technology.)

 

 

 

Smart cities challenge    Role: team member                                     LO5, LO1, LO3, LO6

” Smart City Programme & Challenge is a program specifically designed for UWCSEA students by Hyundai and Kia teams. Designed to help students discover and learn about innovative developments in Smart Cities; providing them with real-world insights delivered by renowned experts. Participants will also get to discover Hyundai’s innovative vision for urban mobility.”

Schedule: 19 Feb (Fri), 4pm – 4.45pm: Information Webinar
26 Feb (Fri), 4pm – 6pm: Online session
5 Mar (Fri), 4pm – 6pm: Online session
12 Mar (Fri), 4pm – 5pm: Online session
19 Mar (Fri), 4pm – 5pm: Online session
19 – 27 Mar Team preparation and ideation
27 Mar (Sat), Full Day: Challenge

LO5 [Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively] – Working in a group of 5 was interesting, it has its pros and cons, but our group (composed of friends/colleagues) made it very effective to work together. We sat down and discussed, brainstormed, and planned our idea out in-depth. We worked very effectively with each other by playing to each other’s strengths. For example, someone was in charge of the online presentations, another in charge of digital artworks, and another on the product specifics. In my opinion, collaboration is important – and can work very well with the right people. In this challenge specifically, we utilized everyone’s strengths in order to produce an excellent comprehensive presentation on a futuristic design.

LO6 [Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance] – This project revolved around the idea of a smart, futuristic world, with a large focus on sustainability. The modern world so far has brought multitudes of carbon dioxide, pollution and consequences. A futuristic smart world has to be designed with ideas that use renewable energy, and minimize pollution as if we continue down our current trajectory, we are headed towards bad times. Thus, the global significance of this challenge was to design a product, that would be self-sustaining, sustainable, and would improve efficiency in one or more sectors. Hence, we created a product (or a collation of products) which work in conjunction with some of these global issues, in order to increase it’s sustainability and reduce it’s environmental impact. Our gym is self-sufficient in terms of energy and energy production, as well as may produce extra energy that can go towards other uses such as charging PBV’s (future Hyundai cars). Thus, our gym design produces renewable energy and increases the health of the general community simultaneously, as these possibly portable gyms allow for more user accessibility (ergonomics).

LO1 [Identify their own strengths and develop areas for growth] -My strengths usually lie in independent work, so this challenge pushed me outside my usual comfort zone. Planning and forming a team of students, and being able to communicate and collaborate effectively was difficult at first, but I was able to successfully fulfil the goal, by selecting team members who would gel together well, and making sure to keep my perspectives open and encourage everyone to speak up. Furthermore, dividing up tasks equally, something I usually don’t do allowed us to all collaborate and spend similar amounts of time on this shared project.

For me specifically, this challenge pushed me out of my comfort zone by creating a presentation and doing a verbal presentation in front of not only our design teachers but also members of Kia and Hyundai corporations in Japan. Although initially I was slightly nervous, as the event day came I made sure to put my best effort into it, and enjoy the experience.

LO3 [Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience] – When I first heard about this project, I immediately requested more information from my teacher. After learning more about what this challenge entails, I approached several of my former classmates in design and technology and talked to them. They were all on board, and from then we formed a team. We initially had a few meetings where we discussed the criteria and purpose of the project, as well as brainstormed ideas. During these meetings, we discussed a plan on how we would approach this event day and presentation, and divided tasks to be done for the final project itself. This planning stage helped us avoid double or unequal distribution of work, resulting in everyone being happy, as well as efficiently creating a high-quality final product/presentation.

 

Esteemed guests, and judges of the challenge (Challenge resources)

 

 

 

Stackable smart gym

 

 

 

 

Renders (digital artwork using CAD: Fusion 360 of our product design)

 

 

 

Portable PBV situated smart gym that can autonomously travel to you for a workout (possible integration with future Hyundai and Kia technology.)