Raffles Girls' Secondary School, Singapore has a Gifted Education Program whereby bright young women are given the opportunity to fulfill their potential by taking up a project in a tertiary institution. Ning Hwee Tiang is one of the science teachers in the Program who has seen the relevance of getting her students involved in optics and photonics. Basic optics is taught in Secondary 3 and this program helps the students to enrich themselves with other related concepts in optics, and its application. It also helps build links between what is learnt in class and the real world. The ultimate aim is to get them interested enough to join in this area, thus increase the women representation in Optics. This paper aims to show how the Photonics Centre, NgeeAnn Polytechnic has participated in their Program, the training methodology used to introduce difficult topics in optics and photonics, and the projects undertaken. Some of the projects include making transmission holograms, lasershows and sensor applications of the Michelson Interferometer.
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