The deadline for registration of AstroChallenge 2012 has been extended to 15th May 2012.

Don’t hesitate any further, register now at http://www.astrochallenge.org/registration.php!

This year, on top of the thrilling and intellectually challenging competition, participants can look forward to joining a range of concurrent events:

1) To better prepare participants who are new to astronomy, Woodlands YEC Astronomical Society will be working in collaboration with the AstroChallenge committee to offer educational workshops covering a range of topics relevant to the competition. Our Quiz Masters will be teaching at the workshops.

In addition, some papers from past AstroChallenge competitions have been uploaded under the Information tab for participants’ reference. Do note that prior to AstroChallenge 2011, competition papers were not standardized, and may not reflect the true academic requirement of AstroChallenge 2012. Please use them at your own risk.

2) To celebrate the extremely rare Transit of Venus – indeed, the last of our generation – NUS Faculty of Science will be organizing a range of fun and educational activities, to be held on the 5th and 6th of June. Participants can look forward to joining public lectures, astrophotography exhibition, music performances, and public observation session. More information can be found at the event’s website.

Please register early for these events to avoid disappointment. For enquiries, don’t hesitate to contact us at astrochallenge@gmail.com.

Thank you for your interest in AstroChallenge 2012, and we look forward to seeing you at NUS on the 5th of June!

AstroChallenge is back! Please click here to register for AstroChallenge 2012! In addition, feel free to browse our information page for past year’s question papers and solutions.

For enquiries, don’t hesitate to contact us at astrochallenge@gmail.com.

Breaking away from the tradition, the quiz master team have kindly decided to release the answers to this year’s competition. They can be downloaded from the information page. It is hope that with more publicly available question papers, we would be able to improve the overall knowledge of the astronomy community.

Do check back for more information of next year’s competition in early 2012.

It’s finally comes to the end of everything. After two days fighting for the best, all the participants have show their best performance throughout the competition.

Now it’s prize presentation!

We have the Junior category winners as follow:

1.st – Raffles Institution

2nd – Bukit Panjang Govt. School

3rd – NUS High School

And the winners in Senior category are:

1st – NUS High School

2nd – Raffles Institution

3rd – Victoria Junior College

The Best Astronomers for this year in each category is as followed:

Junior category – Oh Wei Shen

Senior category – Zou Tangsheng

The Best Project Round teams belong to:

Junior category – Raffles Girls’ School

Senior category – NUS High School

Congratulation to all the winners!

Also, as an appreciation of token, we give away the plaques for the Guest of Honor, Associate Prof. Dr Kwek Leong Chuan, Guest Judges, Assoc. Prof David Lee Butler, Assoc. Prof Phil Chan, Dr. Cindy Ng, and Mr Leek Meng Lee. Thanks for their precious time with us!

That’s all for the Astrochallenge 2011! Great job and very thanks to all the backbone committee members from NUS and NTU, and thanks to everyone for hardwork to make this event complete and successful. Hope to see everyone again next year!

It’s end of Junior Final, and we are proceeding to the senior final.

We have one more judges to join us, Associate Prof David Lee Butler from NTU.

At the same time, we are very proud to have with us, Guest of Honour, Associate Prof Kwek Leong Chuan, throughout the remaining of the events.

Welcome GOH and Guest Judges!

For Senior category, we have the following teams which successfully enter the final round:

1. Raffles Institution

2. Victoria Junior College

3. NUS High School

4. Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

5. National Junior College

Good luck for them in the final!

The Junior Final was officially started at 1:40pm when the guest judges were ready.

The three guest judges, Mr Leek Meng Lee (left 1), Dr Cindy Ng (left 2), and Associate Prof Phil Chan (right 1). Anne, Quiz Master was accompanying the guest judges throughout the final.

Jia Wei was briefing the rules and regulations about the finals again.

The Junior Final started, the first round, Individual round, which each of the team members has to take turn to choose which question they want to answer.

The mark recorder team, Esther, Mathangi, He Miao, and Kenny.

Participants from Anglo-Chinese School.

Participants from NUS High School.

Participants from Raffles Girl School.

Participants from Bukit Panjang Govt. School.

Participants from Raffles Institution.

Yeah! Finally, it comes to the climax, and most exciting round! The Junior Finals!

Three distinguished guest judges have been with us, they are Associate Professor Phil Chan, Dr. Cindy Ng, and Mr Leek Meng lee.

Besides that, proudly to announce that the teams that successful to enter the Final round are:

1. Raffles Institution

2. Bukit Panjang Govt School

3. Raffles Girl School

4. NUS High School

5. Anglo-Chinese School

Congratulation! Good luck for them in the final!

It’s the end of project round, ended at 12pm.

The participants have done good presentation, everyone should have enjoy them much.

It’s lunch time now! 1 hour break for them, and next will be Finals for Junior Category, will begin at 1:15pm.

Enjoy the meal!

Some photos captured during the two-hour project round…

The first activity to be held on 2nd day was Project Round, where participants were to show their creativity to the judges.

This year, the theme of the project round is Star Chart.

Their projects were all around the LT, and judges were approaching each of the projects to start judging their projects.

Here are the projects from some of the schools.

Great show from everyone! Creative and innovative.