Name: Smrithi Keerthivarman

Age: 17

School: Raffles Institution (Junior College), JC 1

SAS: 1SAS

Favourite memory from 2SAS:

Water rocket building and launch, Mars Rover simulation and our extremely fun paintball session

Hobbies/Interests:

Reading about space, playing tennis, singing and listening to my favourite music (:

Smrithi receiving her award from Dr Michael Griffin, former NASA administrator from 2005 - 2009

Name: Marissa Yeo Le Ping

Age: 17

School: Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Business Studies, Year 1

SAS: 2SAS

Experience in SAS:

I had a lot of fun and I learnt a lot about not only space but the technologies used in space engineering as well. Besides the theory, I loved the practical sessions such as the launching of the water rockets and the outdoor activities such as Paintball, the dive session at the NDU. I was forced to step out of my comfort zone but we really bonded through these sessions!  

Marissa

Favourite memory from 2SAS:

Paintball, Diving at NDU and all the friends I’ve made there

Hobbies/Interests:

Reading, Sports, Designing, DJ-ing, hanging out with friends, being spontaneous

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Name: Ho Shao Yang

Age: 18

School: Ngee Ann Polytechnic: Aerospace Technology

SAS: 5SAS

Experience in SAS: 

It was one of the best moments in my life. SAS provided me an opportunity to experience stuff ordinary people would not have done. 

The instructors did an extremely good job of sharing their experiences while working a

t NASA as well as educating us in all things related 

to space and astronaut training. Going into this course, I expected it to be somewhat dry and boring, however my opinions changed instantly 

after day 1. Overall, it had a good balance of fun, interaction and education between instructors and students. 

Favourite Memory from SAS:

Paint ball(team building exercise), Diving(zero gravity simulation), flying the UAV. These activities are not placed in any particular order.

Hobbies and Interest: 

Sports, Food, Piano, Music, Performing Arts, Reading, Watching Movies, Flying.

Shao Yang with Chief Instructor Tim Kauffman

Name: Alec Posney

Age: 18 years old.

School: Australian International School Singapore

SAS: 7SAS

Alec with SSTA President, Mr Jonathan Hung, and SAS instructor Dr Joey Shelton

My experience SAS: 

It was an amazing experience that I would recommend for anybody who is interested in anything to do with space or even general interests in science or 

engineering. The lecture followed by activity format was very effective allowing immediate application of the well taught theory with interesting and 

challenging activities.

My favorite activity: 

Was the water rocket building and launch, this was because we were able to use the same rocketry equations used by NASA on our little model rockets 

successfully. The off sight visits were also fascinating, especially the visit to CREST where we saw the command and control center for Singapore first satellite.

It was a fun, fast-paced and interesting week that gave a glimpse into the complex world of NASA and rocket science.