At BLIP Lab, we don’t like to keep science boxed up in the University. That’s why BLIP Lab’s Asst Prof Suzy Styles gets involved in mentoring programmes for students in High School, JC and Poly. The projects are inspiring, and a lot of fun. The students bring new ideas to the lab, and we find ways of turning these ideas into testable experiments together.

This year, NUS High School of Math and Science awarded Suzy their Inspiring Mentor Award, for her work with student Emilea Teo. The award is for dedication in mentoring a student and nurturing their character.

The award was presented this week at NUS High School’s Research Congress – an event organized like a proper scientific conference, complete with presentations, a poster session, and demonstration tables. NUS High did a great job of showing students what it is like to attend a conference, and how it feels to present your work to other interested people.

Emilea presented a poster of her findings from her investigation into connections between vision and hearing, for both music, and sung language. Her work formed part of the NTU’s Nanyang Research Programme, which puts talented young scholars in contact with active researchers.

The findings from this research are super neat and we plan follow up on them soon!