Fun Techtivities in February!
Hop into the Year of the Rabbit with our compiled list of #techtivities, where you can enjoy time with your family, have fun and see the wonders that technology can bring! 🐇
Starting with February’s #TechFact, did you know that the chess A.I programme "Deep Blue" defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in a game in 1996? That marked the first time a chess computer had beaten a world champion! (Source)
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Now that we’re all warmed up, keep scrolling on to discover techtivities that you and your family can indulge in this month! ✨
Mattel PlayHouse
Experience a throwback to childhood and reminisce with your family at Mattel Playhouse! An all-new experiential pop-up playspace at Let’s Play @ Marina Square, it features 12 various activities for our young ones. Ranging from Hot Wheels, Thomas The Train to Barbie, there is definitely fun and exciting awaiting! 🤩
What tech is here? 🤔
🧑💻 Get on the iconic Hot Wheels orange track and control your virtual race car via the controls powered with Sensing Technologies! 🏎️
🧑💻 Join Thomas and friends on a train adventure using Augmented Reality! 🚂
🧑💻 Explore limitless possibilities with Barbie - gymnast? Pop star? Be whatever you want, with the help of Interactive Technologies! 🤸
Details:
When: until 6 April 2023
Where: Let’s Play @ Marina Square
Price: from $28
Learn more here.
Disney100: Experience Wonder at Jewel
Can you believe Disney has been around for a century already? 😮 Celebrate 100 years of Disney at Jewel, where you will see a plethora of everyone’s favourite Disney characters and be mesmerised by the sights and sounds! 🥳
What tech is here? 🤔
🧑💻 How can water transform into such beautiful sights? Meet your favourite Disney characters in the water with the help of Projection Technology (and even get the chance to meet them in person!) 😄
🧑💻 Immerse in nostalgia as you hear the classic Disney songs such as You’ve Got A Friend In Me and A Whole New World together with the special light show - this perfect combination made possible with carefully planned programming! 🎶
Details:
When: until 9 April 2023
Where: Jewel Changi Airport
Price: Free
Learn more here.
Future World: Where Art Meets Science (New exhibitions!)
Ever wanted to fly and experience life from above? Visit Future World: Where Art Meets Science at the ArtScience Museum, where there is a new section, Exploring New Frontiers. Featuring 3 new exhibitions, be amazed as you experience the wonder of flight! ✈️
What tech is here? 🤔
🧑💻 See how light and matter interact with you as they disperse, re-organise and change colour at Autonomous Abstraction, Continuous Phenomena from the Universe to the Self with the help of Sensing Technologies! 💡
🧑💻 Become part of a bird flock as you move on colourful bars. Navigate carefully though - whatever you do will affect others in your flock due to Sensing Technologies! 🕊️
🧑💻 Design and control your aeroplane, hawk or butterfly (or even the universe!) with the smart devices provided and see the world in a different light - all possible due to Augmented and Virtual Reality, as well as Touch Technologies! 🦋
Details:
When: Permanent
Where: ArtScience Museum Singapore
Price: from $16
Learn more here.
March Holiday Coding Camps
Be enchanted by the world of code and the endless possibilities it’ll bring you in our March Holiday Coding Camps for Ages 7 to 18! ✨ Become a coding wizard and create an original platformer game or a multi-functional mobile app, or discover your hidden talents as you design a Python project to help solve your math problems. Fun and excitement await at our coding camps! 🤩
Hesitate no more, grab a friend this March Holidays and join us here at Coding Lab! Code your own world and watch the magic unfold. 🪄 ( psst, we've warned you, you'll be captivated by the world of code 😉) Sign up here or feel free to drop us an email, call us or WhatsApp us to get in touch. 😊
Details:
When: 13 to 17 March 2023
Where: Online, Parkway Parade, Bukit Timah (KAP Mall)
Price: From $401.52
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Looking for a phone charging station to charge your phone? 📱 Always feeling bored while waiting for buses? You can now charge your phones at the bus stop! But here’s the thing, you will have to work your muscles to get your phone charging! 💪
The newly introduced prototype, Recharge aims to encourage exercising by incentivizing users with phone charging benefits and attractive vouchers! This idea was from students of the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Learn more about the concept and the team behind Recharge here!
If you haven’t seen our previous techtivity recommendations, check out our January #TechtivitiesOfTheMonth, which includes more cool tech-related activities you can do with friends and family!
(Written by Thinzar)