DSA 2024

[Chin99]

My Child is keen on Robotics. Anyone know of a a good external vendor for training with the idea of DSA next year?

[Trooper]

Hi ,


Any idea when we apply for Dance DSA , do we need to attach video clip? :thankyou:

[CoffeeCat]

Chin99\" post_id=\"2133216\" time=\"1714373152\" user_id=\"120803:

My Child is keen on Robotics. Anyone know of a a good external vendor for training with the idea of DSA next year?

IMO Nullspace Robotics https://sg.nullspace.co/ and School of Robotics (SOR) https://www.sor.com.sg/ are two of the bigger and more popular robotics vendor with good past record in robotics competitions (e.g. FLL, NRC, WRO), if robotics (i.e. building small robots with LEGO parts and programming them to move) is what you and/or your child is looking at.

They both have a structured robotics curriculum for newbies to get to the can compete in robotics competitions level.
SOR's course is the traditional 1 lesson/week kind while Nullspace Robotics' course (called Robotics Certificate Programme) is that it is flexible and at your own pace, so your child could rush through by booking say 3 lessons/week. This flexibility comes \"at the expense\" of class size, so each of their bookable class session is limited to 4 students, so 1 robotic instructor would guide a maximum of 4 students who could be progressing at their own pace.
Nullspace Robotics and SOR (AMK branch) uses the newer Spike Prime, while SOR (main branch-Bukit Timah) is still using the older EV3 last year. LEGO is deprecating EV3 with Spike Prime as the replacement kinda, and secondary schools are in their own individual pace of transitioning.

After the child complete the course, they are now competition-ready, but in order to take part in the traditional robotics competitions (i.e. FLL, NRC, WRO), they would have to take part as a team with a coach, so if they are not part of a school team/club, they can sign up the competition package with a centre (again NUllspace or SOR or some others), where the centre would form teams and the coach would be guiding them during weekly sessions.
One key difference here is that SOR allows students to sign up a competition course and structured robotics course concurrently. Nullspace robotics requires the child to have some background already (e.g. by completing their advanced course) before they can participate in their Robotics competition course, which is by-invite only, with limited slots but popular demand.

Also the reality of robotics competitions is that students have to form teams of 2-3, with different roles to play, like one is the main coder while the other is backup and focus more on building. And so usually the schools with robotics DSA would also have their own selection tests to evaluate the students' robotics coding as well.

If you want to take on robotics competitions as a portfolio for DSA, the timeline would be quite tight, because NRC/WRO is held around term 3 holidays (aug-sept) and FLL is held around March, while registration, forming of teams and training usually start around 3 months before. So if your child is P5 this year, realistically could only aim for P5 NRC/WRO and P6 FLL.

[sweetsuccess]

May I seek guidance if we can dsa chinese orchestra via guzheng cca?

[bbbay]

sweetsuccess\" post_id=\"2133228\" time=\"1714527327\" user_id=\"171466:

May I seek guidance if we can dsa chinese orchestra via guzheng cca?

There are DSAs via Guzheng itself. these are the schools that offer Guzheng DSA:

https://postimg.cc/0rFR4kth


For Guzheng or Chinese orchestral, these are the list of schools offering DSAs:

https://postimg.cc/7GmVRngw


You may also go to this online short listing workbook (view it on computer, not mobile device) to further shortlist other criteria, among them location, co ed or single sex school and more:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/sg.parent/viz/SingaporeSecondarySchoolSearchDSA/Search

verify by going to MOE school finder:
https://www.moe.gov.sg/schoolfinder?journey=Secondary%20school

[kylene]

For DSA sports , previous competition is a must ?

[sweetsuccess]

bbbay\" post_id=\"2133236\" time=\"1714532214\" user_id=\"175278:

There are DSAs via Guzheng itself. these are the schools that offer Guzheng DSA:

https://postimg.cc/0rFR4kth


For Guzheng or Chinese orchestral, these are the list of schools offering DSAs:

https://postimg.cc/7GmVRngw


You may also go to this online short listing workbook (view it on computer, not mobile device) to further shortlist other criteria, among them location, co ed or single sex school and more:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/sg.parent/viz/SingaporeSecondarySchoolSearchDSA/Search

verify by going to MOE school finder:
https://www.moe.gov.sg/schoolfinder?journey=Secondary%20school

Thank you for replying. Cuz my niece is keen on a secondary school but the DSA option is \"chinese orchestra\". She's in her primary school's guzheng cca team, so we are wondering if she may dsa to the secondary via Chinese orchestra based on her cca, guzheng. Not sure if \"Chinese Orchestra\" = \"guzheng\"..

[Trooper]

Hi,


Just wondering for DSA dance, do we need to submit videos during the initial application? Thanks

[CoffeeCat]

Trooper\" post_id=\"2133259\" time=\"1714580180\" user_id=\"170470:

Hi,

Just wondering for DSA dance, do we need to submit videos during the initial application? Thanks

Hi Trooper, i think it depends on the school you are applying for, and you would need to check the website of your desired school for the information.
As an example from google search in 2022 SCGS did require submission of video during the initial moe portal application by including the link to uploaded video
https://www.scgs.moe.edu.sg/files/SCGS-DSA-Info-Sheet-2022_final.pdf

[Rs2404]

Kid was at the NSG these few days and she said that NJC gave out DSA offers via letters to some students? That’s fast? I thought applications start next week.