Enhance teaching and learning
Simulations, online labs, phone sensors, and digital manipulatives make concepts observable and discussable.
2025 | Gold Innergy Submission
AI-generated digital manipulatives that help teachers build better SLS learning
The 2025 Gold Innergy story shows how generative AI can move from novelty to classroom infrastructure: teachers create manipulatives faster, students interact with concepts more directly, and SLS becomes a launchpad for richer learning evidence.
2024 | Silver Innergy Award
Localised inquiry-based math resources for high-ability learners
This award highlights a powerful design principle: high-ability learners need tasks that invite conjecture, testing, explanation, and refinement. Localised digital resources make that kind of mathematical thinking more accessible to Singapore classrooms.
2022 | Bronze Innergy Award
Free RPA with TagUI-AI for SLS: making teacher work lighter at scale
The RPA award matters because educational technology is not only about student-facing apps. Sometimes the biggest improvement is giving teachers back time by automating repetitive platform tasks safely and transparently.
2022 | National Day Awards
Twenty-five years of public service behind sustainable EdTech work
The 25-year Long Service Medal is a reminder that meaningful educational technology is sustained by people, not just platforms. The continuity behind Open Source Physics at Singapore is part of why its resources keep improving.
2022 | UNESCO Publication
UNESCO publication recognition for innovative technology in education
The UNESCO publication extends the earlier prize story by placing the work among international examples of technology used meaningfully for education. It is evidence that open interactive resources can travel beyond one school system.
2021 | Innergy Bronze School Award
School and ETD partnership for technology-enabled learning
This Bronze School Award highlights the importance of partnership. When school teams and ETD expertise work together, digital lessons become more grounded, more scalable, and more responsive to classroom realities.
2021 | GOLC International Online Laboratory Award
Visualised online laboratories that let learners see what the apparatus is doing
The GOLC recognition celebrates a core strength of Open Source Physics at Singapore: online labs are not replacements for thinking. They are environments where learners can manipulate, observe, compare, and explain phenomena with visual clarity.
2020 | Excellence in Physics Education Award
International physics education recognition for an open-source teaching culture
The American Physical Society recognition points to something larger than one app or one lesson. It affirms a community practice: build tools openly, test them with teachers, improve them with evidence, and share them back with the world.
2020 | Journal Recommendation
Named among top virtual lab websites during COVID-19 learning disruption
Being recommended as one of the top websites for virtual labs during COVID-19 shows the resilience of open online laboratory resources. When physical access was constrained, learners still needed meaningful ways to investigate phenomena.
2020 | Innergy Commendation Award
School wave simulator kit for reasoning about wave phenomena
The wave simulator demonstration kit connects physical modelling, visualisation, and teacher reasoning. It shows that strong EdTech does not always mean screen-only learning; the best designs often link concrete apparatus with digital explanation.
2019 | Bronze Innergy Award
DIY Android and iOS apps for teachers who want to build
The DIY mobile app award recognises a practical shift: teachers do not only consume educational apps, they can learn to package and share their own. That turns app creation into a teacher capability rather than a vendor dependency.
2019 | Gold Innergy Award
Turning a phone into scientific equipment for joyful learning
This award captures a beautifully simple idea: students already carry powerful sensors. When those sensors become part of a physics investigation, learning becomes personal, measurable, and memorable.
2018 | National Day Awards
Commendation Medal recognising contribution to public education
The National Day Awards Commendation Medal recognises public service contribution. In the context of OSPSG, it sits beside the technical awards as evidence that sustained educational innovation is also a form of service.
2017 | MOE Gold Innergy Award
DC motor demonstration kit designed around content representation
The DC motor demonstration kit award shows the strength of combining apparatus, representation, and explanation. The CoRe approach keeps the physics idea at the centre while technology and demonstration design make it easier to reason about.
2017 | MOE Service Excellence Award
Service excellence as the quiet foundation of EdTech adoption
The MOE Service Excellence Award highlights the relational side of educational technology. For tools to be adopted, teachers need support, responsiveness, and confidence that help is available when classroom needs become specific.
2016 | MOE Gold Innergy Award
Open Source Physics at Singapore as a national innovation engine
The 2016 MOE Gold Innergy Award marks a turning point: Open Source Physics at Singapore was recognised not just as a collection of simulations, but as a sustainable way for teachers to design, share, and improve technology-enabled lessons.
2015-2016 | UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize
UNESCO recognition for open ICT-enabled learning from Singapore
The UNESCO prize situates this work on a global stage. It recognises the educational value of open, interactive, ICT-enabled resources that can travel across classrooms, countries, and learning contexts.
2014 | Public Service 21 Distinguished Star Service Award
Distinguished public service in support of open educational innovation
This Public Service 21 recognition points to a core pattern in the awards archive: innovation is strongest when it remains service-oriented. The tools matter because they help teachers teach and students understand.
2013 | MOE Outstanding Innovator Award
Outstanding innovation through open simulations and teacher design
The MOE Outstanding Innovator Award recognises the early momentum behind Open Source Physics at Singapore. It marks the idea that teachers can be designers of digital learning environments, not only users of them.
2012 | Public Service 21 ExCEL Awards
Best Ideator recognition for practical education innovation
The Best Ideator award recognises a habit that runs through the whole archive: notice a classroom problem, imagine a better tool, prototype quickly, and share the improvement. That habit is the root of the later OSPSG ecosystem.
2012 | Gold Innergy Award
Gravity physics by inquiry: investigating the Solar System from the classroom
The 2012 Gravity Physics by Inquiry award captures the early power of simulation-based inquiry. It invited students to use models to ask questions that would otherwise be impossible to investigate directly in school.
2012 | MOE Service Excellence Award
Service excellence supporting teachers through educational technology
This service excellence award recognises the support work around innovation. Teachers adopt digital tools more readily when the surrounding service is responsive, practical, and grounded in classroom constraints.