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Science
General
Knowledge
Competition
Jointly reported by:
Chloe Soh Ke Er Jr2Z(3)
Goh Yu Xin Sr1ScD
Grace Low Shing Wei Sr2ScA
On the 7th of June 2022, text each other during the to be a bit tough and 45
Kuen Cheng High School competition to discuss their minutes was clearly not
Science Experiment answers. However, googling enough for some of them
Club organized a science or other forms of research to finish all the questions.
competition that was open were forbidden during the As a result, quite a few
to all Kuen Cheng students competition. teams failed to submit the
to take part in. The aim of Google Form in time and
this competition was to In the preliminary round, were eliminated from the
test students based on their contestants are required to competition.
knowledge of science, as answer 40 Multiple Choice
well as encouraging team Questions via Google Semi-final rounds were
spirit. Form within 45 minutes. held the next day, and rules
10 groups who submitted were altered. Contestants
The The competition was held their answers fastest and had to answer questions
award via Zoom video platform. most accurately would be that were displayed on the
ceremony Both Junior and Senior qualified for the semifinals. screen. There were a total of
contestants entered their But apart from the results, 40 questions plus 10 bonus
respective zoom meeting they were keener towards questions. It is basically an
V-Zhen and became the unformidable champion.
rooms. Later, they were seeing how well the team oral contest where speed
briefed on the rules of the members distributed and accuracy win points.
As a former member of her elementary school table tennis team, she was proud to win
the competition and looked forward to participating in the competition the following competition. The person their questions and had The contestants would
year. in charge encouraged discussions with each other. comment “Me” in the chat
the contestants to work box, and the fastest team
as a team. Form of A major problem most to comment “Me” after the
During the award ceremony, Madam Chong Siew Fah, the School Administrator,
presented the third to first runner-ups and the champion with medals. She then gave communication was not contestants faced was host entered a dividing line
a brief speech, hoping that similar activities would be held again. With that, the event limited, team members the lack of time, as they had the right to answer the
came to a close. were allowed to call or considered the questions question displayed. The
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