This year’s event was the second iteration of the Earth Alive Inter-School Challenge, after a successful pilot project in 2022. It was organised by the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) and its long-term partner Science Centre Singapore (SCS), with support from the U.S. Embassy Singapore and in support for the GoGreenSG initiative of the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE). 

The winning teams received a 3D-printed trophy and a certificate, presented by representatives from EOS (Winners Award), from SCS (1st Runner Up Award), from the MSE (2nd Runner Up Award) and from the U.S. Embassy Singapore (Best Video Award).


137 students took part in the Challenge, which comprised three missions demanding a blend of curiosity, creativity, presentation skills, as well as a competitive mindset.   

To complete the first mission, the students produced an educational and creative video about how they and others around the world have been impacted by climate change, sea-level rise and extreme events. The teams had to use content they learnt during a webinar about the same topic, which also showed the importance of collaboration at the local and international level to address the climate crisis. The webinar featured presentations from Associate Professor Andrew Kemp from Tufts University (US) about Historic Sea-level Rise in Boston and from Dr Raquel Felix, a Research Fellow at EOS, about Typhoons and Climate Change, and the documentary ‘Antarctica – The Giant Awakens’  which chronicles last year’s expedition to Antarctica of Professor Benjamin Horton, Dr Fang Yi Tan, both from EOS, and Assistant Professor Jennifer Walker from Rowan University (US). 

Each team submitted a 90-sec long video that was judged by a panel involving scientists from EOS and Asst Prof Jennifer Walker. The team from Raffles Girls’ School claimed the Best Video award. The videos were all of high quality and some will be selected to be promoted on the social media platforms of EOS and the U.S. Embassy Singapore. 

During the second mission of the challenge, each team had to find clues and make sense of the content from the Earth Alive exhibition to answer a series of quiz questions about natural hazards, climate change and their impacts, and how to protect populations from multiple hazards. Each question provided context and information about hazards and mitigation and adaptation strategies to help the students complete the final question of sketching their proposed coastal protection strategy for a country of their choice. 



The third mission comprised station games from the EOS Dynamic Earth Games, which involve role-play and encourage players to experience the complexity of managing hazard crises. Each team had to play four games and win as many games as possible. 



With this challenge, the organisers hoped the youth would be encouraged to be creative, learn about Earth and climate sciences and the challenges and opportunities related to managing disaster risk and the climate crises, and think about solutions to promote resilience of communities – all this while having fun. 

A participant from Commonwealth Secondary School shared that they enjoyed “interacting with different schools, and learning new geography concepts”, while a participant from Dunman High School enthused that “seeing many different people coming together mostly out of concern for our environment and Earth” was what they enjoyed most about the challenge. 

EOS would like to thank all the participating schools for their support, the Science Centre Singapore for the collaboration, the U.S. Embassy Singapore for its support, and the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment for including this programme in the GoGreenSG initiative.