Sony Creative Science Award 2009 Merit Award



This was a great achievement for both me and my son for the year 2009! The toy we submitted for the Sony Creative Science Award 2009, won Merit Award on 22 July 2009. The details about our submission is in this previous post here. It has been 2 months of waiting since we submitted the toy to the school. Out of 3,423 entries, from 101 schools, it was not simply luck to get us there. We jumped with joy when the school teacher informed us of the good news.

During the prize presentation day, we had a chance to look at a number of great works from children at different primary school levels, some with the involvement of either the teacher or their parent, some have invested more on the materials while others insisted on recycled materials. It's really interesting just by admiring at their work and how, at a young age, they were presenting their work to the public.

I sincerely hope that there are more of such platform for the younger generation to work on their creativity and innovation. Distraction from gadgets and games has highly impacted kids today to be less involved in healthy activities other than focusing on the screen. Let's make time for craft.

Comments

LOKE said…
Great Work, Amy and son! I could see that you have strong passion in art & crafts! Do spread this passion with more people... the love between parents and children... the caring mindset of material recycling... :)
5 December 2009 at 12:41
Unknown said…
Thank you Loke, for your encouragement! Hope you are doing great too.
9 August 2013 at 21:47
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