Innovation and Enterprise

Proposal

- Introduce topic (Innovation and Enterprise) to the student leaders. (Power Point used (below))

- Student leaders to share examples of I&E in their own schools and what role had they played in I&E in their schools as student leaders.

- Student leaders to discuss how to improve I&E in schools (perhaps split them into smaller groups for easier discussion) and what part they can play in implementing I&E.

- Student leaders to collate discussion as a whole group and come up with a presentation.

Power Point for introduction of topic

This ppt is quite simple, basically it's like this:

Slide 1:

Title: ANDERSON LEADERS FORUM

Slide 2: List out the 5 topics and then focus on I&E
Topics Covered in Forum
Student Leadership
Community Involvement Programme (CIP)
Innovation and Enterprise
National Education
YOG and CCA

Slide 3:
What is Innovation and Enterprise?
Innovation: To innovate means to introduce something new.
Enterprise: Being enterprising means being able to display bravery and dare in the attempt of a task and being very able and ingenious in business dealings.

Why implement Innovation and Enterprise in schools?
Students would benefit with innovation and enterprise skills in their future careers.
Entrepreneurship skills will enable them to be more acquainted with business dealings

Backup Plan (if students do not come up with something resourceful)

(This will be done in ppt)

- Students would need innovation skills and strong entrepreneurship skills for the economy.

- By putting in place the following proposals to help students grasp these skills, they would be able to face future challenges.

Innovation

1. Developing Intellectual Curiosity

- Getting students to think originally and question when they learn

- Instead of always spoon-feeding students with simple solutions each time they face small difficulties, teachers should encourage/guide students in thinking of an alternative.

- We can encourage students to be more innovative by exposing them to many different forms of arts and brands in the current industries. For example: Alessi, Singapore’s Museum of the Arts etc. In this way, students would be able to gain inspiration much better.

- Encourage students to carry a sketchbook to these places so that they can pen down their ideas or inspiration quickly without possibly forgetting them.

- Workshops: e.g. talks by innovation artists conducted in schools

- Organise an Inventor's competition where students can compete by coming up with the most original, ingenious and useful invention.

2. Providing space for students to develop passion in what they want to do

- Add some form of “Innovation-time” into curriculum, inspiring students to think outside the box more often.

- On the technology side of innovation, do allow students to experiment with software that creates 3-dimensional figures, editing pictures like adobe Photoshop, coming up with something new and unique using their own original ideas.

3. Developing Spirit of Initiative

- Encourage students to be willing to do things differently even if there is a risk of failure

Enterprise

1. Developing strength of character

- Developing a ruggedness of mind in our students, they will learn to bounce back, try again and be willing to stand as a team, to lead a team and to fight as a team.

2. Building the basics of entrepreneurship

- Courses on money-management can be a start for younger students like us. Exposing us to the basics of accounting can be applied to both real life and in future, help us in any business plans we choose to embark on.

- Workshops

- Through Integrated Project Work (IPW) implemented into the curriculum, students can learn how design or come up with a prototype and come up with a business plan to sell the prototype.