Organised by the Global Alliance of Leading Edge Schools for Sustainability (GALESS) and Korpenick School of Rybnik, Poland, the GALESS Tiltshift Challenge on Energy Transition was held between 26-30 June 2023.
The TiltShift Challenge is meant to enthuse students to undertake action in order to ‘catch their future’ through a process of contemplation, research and creativity. Students are asked to complete academic assignments or tasks and will then be presented with group challenges among various schools all over the world. We invite students to engage in the larger problems facing them, their school, their community and beyond, thus enticing them to extend their learning boundaries beyond their classroom-walls, with challenges that are invariably more complex.
The hinge questions governing their research are as follows:
1. Investigate your country's energy system.
2. Propose a plan for transitioning your country's energy system away from carbon-based sources.
3. Examine the global implications of your country's energy system transition.
Before the trip, 3 students (Anjali, Samuel and Jovius) research, present, discuss, and engaged each other on issues related to Energy Sources and Energy Transition in the modern Singapore context.During the trip, students from 7 different countries (Poland, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, Thailand, Spain and Singapore) interacted, learned together and presented their ideas to a jury and each other.
The theme of Energy is a common global problem that unites the participants in a fruitful discussion and learning together. The cross-cultural understanding developed amongst the students will serve the participants well in the 21st century.
The programme of the challenge are as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3wGlzWyDWU
Day 1 – Opening ceremony
Day 2 – Presentation of ideas & Poster exhibition
Day 3 – Visit to Guido Coal Mine (an example of a fossil fuel and its extraction process)
Gliwice University of Technology (research on alternative sources of energy such as Hydrogen Energy and Bacterial cells)
Day 4 – Visit to Oświęcim and Krakow
Day 5 – Closing ceremony & Cultural evening
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