Applied Learning Programme (ALP)

STEM Food for the Future

Last updated on 6 November 2026

Overview

Seng Kang Secondary School's Applied Learning Programme (ALP), Food for the Future, aims to develop future-ready learners who are aware of and equipped to address Singapore's food security and sustainability challenges. Through authentic, broad and real-world learning experiences, students actively explore how Singapore can build a resilient and sustainable food solutions for future generations.

ALP Programme / Key Approaches

The ALP is interdisciplinary in nature and takes students through a progressive journey of awareness, application, and action-taking across three focus areas: sustainable food production, food diversification, and waste minimisation. Students engage in hands-on inquiry, design thinking, and community engagement to design meaningful solutions to real-world food challenges. In the process, they develop critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills, growing from informed learners into responsible advocates for a sustainable food future.

Core Modules

1. Sustainable Supply

A collage featuring students working on indoor hydroponic farming towers alongside colorful student poster designs about sustainable eating and hydroponics.

2. Urban Farming Using Design Thinking

A two-panel image showing raised garden planter boxes on the left and students tending to an outdoor garden plot on the right.

3. Food Innovations

A collage showing students conducting science experiments in a lab and preparing planting soil outdoors for a food innovation project.

Enter a descriptive alt text.A group of students in blue PE shirts working together on a prototype using cardboard, egg cartons, and a laptop in a classroom.

4. Programming Food Solutions

A student holding a cardboard prototype labeled "Dustrocket" connected to a micro:bit microcontroller and laptop.

A student holding a handmade cardboard model illuminated with red LED lighting.

A student pointing a small camera sensor attached to a micro:bit at an image of an apple on a laptop screen.

5. Alternative Food

A speaker delivering a presentation on edible insects to students in a classroom.

A small pile of roasted edible insect pupae served on a white disposable plate.

A white plate filled with bite-sized energy bites or protein bars containing nuts and grains.

A group of smiling secondary school students gathered around a table with plates of sample foods.