Dear all,

It has been a month since Illustratum 2025 has concluded.

As a summary, our colleagues from the Department of Physics have kindly put up an article for Illustratum 2025, accessible here.

In case you haven’t, media and results have also been uploaded on the Illustratum blog page.

Once again, the organisers thank you for your participation and support to Illustratum.

Dear Teachers and Participants of Illustratum 2025,

We are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of Illustratum 2025, which took place on 1st August 2025. The organising committee would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all teachers and participants for your invaluable support and enthusiastic participation. Your involvement was vital to the success of the event.

As we wrap up this year’s edition, we kindly invite you to complete a brief feedback form to help us better understand your experience and gather suggestions for future improvements.

​For teachers, please use this link.​

For students, please use this link.

The feedback form will take less than 5 minutes to complete.

We will be sharing additional information, including the results and media coverage, as soon as they become available.

Thank you once again for being a part of Illustratum 2025

Due to unforeseen circumstances, please take note that the award ceremony is shifted to Teaching Lab 1 (S12-04-02).

The schedule of events will remain unchanged. Students will set up their project as stipulated and be ready to move to the award ceremony venue (S12-04-02) before 3pm.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Dear teachers and participants,

For your convenience, please refer to the details below for both the judging session and award ceremony.

Judging Session

Venue and timeslot: Refer to the Judging Venue and Timeslot page

Nearest bus stop: Block S12 or Opp University Hall. Nearest MRT Station: Kent Ridge MRT. You may wish to take buses 95, A1 or D2 from Kent Ridge Stn Exit A/NUH to Block S12.

• Please report at the presentation venue before 12.30pm on your presentation day to set up your projects. The venues will open from 11am each of the judging day.
• The presentation venue must be cleared of participants by 1pm for the judging session to begin.
• Each team will have 10 minutes to present their project to a panel of 3-4 judges. It will be followed by another 10 minutes of Q&A.
• Teams with later presentation timing will be asked to wait outside and are asked to report back to the presentation holding venue 15mins before their presentation time.
• Your exact presentation venue will be made known to your team by Friday, 25 July 2025. It will also be updated on the Illustratum blog page.
• Please leave your project in the presentation venue at the end of your presentation. This will be for the project viewing session for guest (from MOE and Science Centre Singapore) on the Award Ceremony day.

Award Ceremony and Project Presentation

The award ceremony will be held on Friday, 1 August 2025.

The schedule is as follows:

Nearest bus stop: Block S12 or Opp University Hall. Nearest MRT Station: Kent Ridge MRT. You may wish to take buses 95, A1 or D2 from Kent Ridge Stn Exit A/NUH to Block S12.

• Participants will be ushered back to the project presentation venue after the ceremony.
• Guests will be invited to view participants’ projects after the ceremony.
• Participants may keep and transport their project back after the project viewing session is completed.
• Light refreshments will be provided to the students at the project viewing venue.

Safety/Evacuation Route

You may wish to refer to the Evacuation Routes page for the evacuation routes for RA or RAMs planning purposes.

Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to reply to Mr Tan Jyh Harng at the earliest opportunity.

Dear participants of Illustratum 2025,

Please note that an email, with subject “Illustratum 2025 Update 3” has been sent to all Teachers-in-charge and team representative. It contains important information about your project submission.

If you have not received the above email, please kindly let the organisers know through phybox18@nus.edu.sg.

Due to an unknown technical issue, the booking platform for Illustratum 2025 Clinic Session 2 is disabled till further notice.

Existing bookings are not affected. If your team would like to make any modifications to your booking or to make a new booking, please kindly email Mr Tan Jyh Harng the respective details below:

Should you have any further inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Mr Tan Jyh Harng.

A page for photographs and media content taken duing Illustratum 2025 events is placed in the dropdown menu for Illustratum 2025.

You can also access them using this link.

If there are any issues, please feel free to let the organisers know at phybox18@nus.edu.sg.

For Illustratum 2025 participants who signed up for the 1st clinic session, please arrive punctually at your allocated venue and time, which is stated in the event calendar invite.

The venues are located in the Department of Physics, NUS. It is recommended to access the clinic venues using the lift lobby at Block S12. The most direct way to reach S12 is to take the NUS Internal Shuttle Buses A1 or D2, or Bus 95 from Kent Ridge MRT Station Exit A/NUH Bus Stop and alight at S12 Bus Stop.

To understand the venue code, please refer to the example below:

Example: S12–03–02 refers to Block S12, Level 3, Room 2.

You are advised to bring your any relevant materials to your project or prototypes and prepare your inquiries in advance.

Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to write in to phybox18@nus.edu.sg.

Dear participants of Illustratum 2025,

Please refer to the timeline page here to access the updated sequence of events for Illustratum 2025.

If you have any inquiries, please feel free to write in to Mr Tan Jyh Harng at phybox18@nus.edu.sg.

Recording of the Students’ briefing is available here.

Dear Participants of Illustratum 2025,

We are pleased to invite you to a briefing session for the students to provide a comprehensive overview of what to anticipate for Illustratum 2025. This session will be beneficial for both students and teachers.

Join us online via Zoom on 19 March 2025, from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM (SGT). The session will be recorded and subsequently made available to the public on our event blog page for future reference.

We strongly encourage at least one representative from each team to attend, as the session will offer detailed insights into the competition timeline and expectations from the judges regarding your projects.

Register for the online briefing through this link.

Tentative itinerary: