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Thanks to everyone who participated in the

2021 geNiUSchannel and geNiUSbooks Competition!

The virtual geNiUSchannel and geNiUSbooks Competition Award Ceremony is held on 12 November 2021 and here are the winners for each category!

Watch the full event here!

Jury's Message by
A/Prof Soo Yuen Jien - Director, CDTL

geNiUSchannel Top 3

geNiUSbooks Top 3

As part of our DYOM, we created a physical science kit named Hygiene Heroes for the project sci@home. It is a project that focuses on providing an avenue for students from low income families to continue learning about science in an engaging way, even in this tough COVID-19 period.

We decided to shift the same content that we created, online! However, this geNiUSbook also comes with a twist, where we decided to present our science kit using a video game concept. This concept is brought across by the various pixel images included in the geNiUSbook, which was created from scratch.

Our audience (you!) will take on the role of a villager in the Kingdom of Evoan, who is about to embark on a treasure hunt to obtain their armor and weapon in order to defeat the virus COVID-19 for their Kingdom.

Through interactive experiments, questionnaires and concept videos, we hope that our audience are able to learn more about the importance of wearing masks and washing their hands with soap, as well as the scientific concepts behind them. Let’s all stay safe and stay strong in this long fight against COVID-19! 🙂

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Let’s taco-bout food!

All living things need food to survive as food provides us with energy. Food contains macronutrients such as carbohydrates (aka sugars), proteins and fats. What happens to food after it has been consumed? Does it turn directly into poo?

We hope you have an egg-cellent time learning about the human digestive system and food nutrition here!

In this interactive book, you will:
1) Understand the physical and chemical processes of digestion (look out for step-by-step simulation videos!)
2) Learn about the various food tests — namely the iodine test, Benedict’s test, Biuret test and emulsion test.

Let’s discover the fate of food today!

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geNiUSchannel & geNiUSbooks Best Teacher and Best Innovation

The Founding of Modern Science

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People's Choice Awards

Interactive SICP JS is an interactive version of the computer science textbook “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” (SICP), a book written by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman at MIT. The JavaScript adaptation of SICP was developed by Martin Henz and Tobias Wrigstad starting in 2008 and is used in the module CS1101S in the NUS School of Computing. Both SICP and SICP JS are in the public domain, with a Creative Commons license.

In Interactive SICP JS, the learner can click on programs with dark background. The program becomes editable and runnable on the spot. The learner can experiment with the program, and continue in the text without disturbing their reading experience.

Technical background: SICP JS is an open-source project housed in the GitHub repository
https://github.com/source-academy/sicp
The textbook content is written in XML. Our Interactive SICP JS consists of two components:
* translator of XML content to JSON, written in JavaScript using Node.JS, and
* web-based frontend written in TypeScript using React.JS, js-slang, and MathJax

Interactive SICP JS augments the learner’s textbook experience with interactive programming features, and is designed to be used along with the traditional PDF version of SICP JS, which is available here: https://source-academy.github.io/sicp/sicpjs.pdf

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geNiUSchannel & geNiUSbooks Competition - 2021
Consolation Prizes

Due to the sheer number of videos and geNiUSbooks, the consolation winners’ works will be uploaded directly onto geNiUSchannel instead. 

Keep an eye out! 

Closing Speech by
Prof Bernard Tan - Senior Vice Provost (Undergraduate Education)
Shaw Professor in Information Systems and Analytics

Once again, thank you to everyone who participated in the

2021 geNiUSchannel and geNiUSbooks Competition!