The National Vex Competition 2008 was held at Millenium Institute from May 30-31, 2008. It attracted a total of 14 Secondary Teams and 4 JC Teams.

Admiralty Sec Sch sent a total of 3 teams lead by Mr Wee Gark Kung. All the teams entered the semi finals for alliance match. The teams won the Gold Award and Silver Award with the last team placed at 4th position.

The alliance teams are as followed :
Team 1 : Hai Sing High, Admiralty Sec, Raffles' JC
Team 2 : Woodlands Ring Sec, Anglo-Chinese Independent, Raffles' JC
Team 3 : Woodlands Ring Sec, Admiralty Sec, Victoria JC
Team 4 : Admiralty Sec, Anglo-Chinese Independent, Anderson JC

Mr Wee planned and organised the 2nd National RoboPreneur Carnival on 23 May 2007 with 67 teams from 19 schools.

There was a total of 2 types of games; the Maze Robot Challenge and the Legged Sumo Robot Challenge.

After brainstorming for 8 weeks, Mr Wee came out with the game play for the Maze Challenge. For this gameplay, the robot (made of lego parts) needs to carry a red ball (which can be found in the NXT box) onboard to clear a certain distance in the maze and finally, to deposit it in a box.

The other part of the game required the robot to deposit blue balls in 2 specific locations. Mr Wee used rubber bands instead of wooden walls to disrupt the robot's datum, as robots normally use wooden walls for datum in order to have an acurate position.

Also, Mr Wee came out with the Triple Knockout System for the Legged Sumo Robot Challenge for this competition.

This competition does not stop at competing with other schools for awards, it also consist of gracious professionalism that Mr Wee demonstrated. Despite the chaotic situation due to enquires regarding the mix up of the maze robot tabulation, not only did Mr Wee not panick, he also surprised all by apologising to all present and acknowledging the mistake of his team. He next announced the Fastest Maze Robot and promised the team that they will be getting the trophies and medals that they deserved. The most impressive part was that all the extra money to re-make the medals was taken out of Mr Wee's pocket without a single complain or resentment.

This year unlike the rest, Mr Wee collaborated with Anderson Junior College for this oversea competition; with 5 ADSS students, 2 ADSS teachers, 6 AJC students and 1 AJC teacher in the team.

His visions and strategies for robotics had impressed many judges to want to learn more from him and the team. The robot which he 'controlled' was always "spotted" by every opponent on the playfield. The strategies that this colourful robot displays were always different from matches to matches. Opponents were always on a lookout for this colorful tiny but powerful on the playfield for its brillant and accurate strategies that it's 'controller' will use.


Further on, Mr Wee was also complimented by one of the judges as 'a rare genius in robotics strategy.' This team not only demostrate robot excellence on the battlefield, also they have shown outstanding teamwork and presentation skills.

Thus, this team won our country the most prestigious award;

The Excellent Award (High School).

Mr Wee Gark Kung lead 2 Vex Robotics Teams to Korea for Asia Pacific Vex Challenge. The Team comprises of Christopher, Yi Rong, Troy, Rui Lin, Cheryl and Mrs Eileen Tan.

The teams collaborated with Rulang Primary School; forming 4 Singapore teams although 2 are from ADSS and 2 from Rulang. The 4 teams colloborated in terms of strategy, skills, etc. It always be a win for a team, is a win for all.

The reason is simple, we go as Singapore Team, there is no different who win the match. It must be Singapore Team. In this way, we have 4 teams competing the world and not only individual team.

Hence won Singapore the following Awards : Gold Alliance Award, Silver Alliance Award, Think Award, Innovation Award and Mentor Award.

The first national competition which Mr Wee planned and organised was the 1st National RoboPreneur Carnival on 25 May 2008 with 113 participating teams from 50 schools.

There were a total of 3 robotics events, 1 entrepreneur event and 1 RE Showcase.

The 3 robotics events were mainly, Maze Robot, Legged Sumo Robot and All Terrain Robot. The Maze Robot and the Legged Sumo Robot can only be built with unlimited Lego Parts and only 1 Processor (RCX or NXT).

The purpose of this is to allow beginners in robotics to have a head start in the Maze Robot Challenge, and for the advance and experienced students, a challenge in the Legged Sumo Robot. The Legged Robot Challenge also is new to Singapore.

The competition ended successfully with a handful of complains on the rules and regulations of the definition of legged. Firstly, this is expected because even the International Robot Olympiad Competition (IROC) which had organised more than 5 times, also had this problem even till date.
Hence we sincerely hope that Mr Wee will come out with a better defined definition for next year.

In 2006, Mr Wee started a team with 4 secondary one students; Adele, Joei, Ying Xuan and Brenda. The team was named 'Angels'.

This team managed to clinch the Championship Award. Being the first Secondary one students team to clinch this award which formally were only won by secondary 2 and 3 students.

This is another milestone in Admiralty Secondary which marks the 4th consecutive championship for the school as well as for him.

In 2006, Admiralty Secondary School has achieved the Niche School Status - Robotics Enterprise. ADSS is the first school to be awarded under the area of robotics as well as the youngest school to achieve this prestigious title in such a short time of 4 years.

Everyone in Admiralty Secondary and the robotics world knew the man behind all this is none other than Mr Wee. Years of hardwork to build up such a strong foundation for a budding cca had paid off finally.

In 2005, the Fairy Team was formed by Mr Wee
with Shi Rui, Shu Yi, Sylvia Kim and Anthea. The team won the 3rd Championship Award once again for the school.

The First World Robot Olympiad was hosted in Singapore. This is the first time which Admiralty Secondary participated in an international robotics competition. The team lead by Mr Wee comprised of Kai Yian, Bao Ling and Tong Fen won the Sprint Race Event (Silver Award).

In 2004, Mr Wee lead a Dolphin Team and swipped a total of 8 awards by his team, another 5 from team Peace and the 14th award from the Sumobot. In this year, Team Dolphin opened a fresh page of historical wins in NJRC's history, making the most win by a single team form the school.

The Dolphin Team also swipped the Championship Award, contributing to the 2nd Championship Award for the school. The team members are Bao Ling, Eileen, Soek Cheng, Xuan Hui and Shu Yi.

The Team 'Peace' lead by Mr Wee won the school's first Championship Award in the National Junior Robotics Competition.

Mr Wee started with Admiralty Secondary School together with the school's founding Principal, Mrs Lim Ai Poo in 2002. He the teacher-in-charge of Swimming Enrichment Lessons as his CCA.

During the pioneer years of Admiralty Secondary School, she was housed in Evergreen Secondary School with a total of 6 classes; 2 Express, 2 NA and 2NT classes.

In July 2002, Mr Wee G.K. started to recruit students for National Junior Robotics Competition. He managed to gather 13 teams for the competition with 5 members participating in each team.

His first appearance in NJRC won him the Best NewComer Award for the young school.

This blog is created and complied specially for our dearest master mentor, Mr Wee Gark Kung. The lengendary robotics hero in the new century.

All information was gathered through RE Alumni, Current RE Students, Ex-RE Teachers and Currrent RE Teachers.


+ Making ADSS as the Youngest Niche School in Singapore within 4 years
+ 4 times Championships in NJRC from 2003 to 2006
+ Win for all Overseas Trips that he went
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- 2008 LA,USA : The Excellent Award, World Vex Championship
- 2007 Seoul,Korea : Gold Award, Asia Pacific Vex Challenge
- 2006 Seoul, Korea : 2 Bronze Awards, International Robot Olympiad Competition
- 2005 BangKok, Thailand : Bronze Award, World Robot Olympaid
- 2005 Atlanta, USA : Vex Challenge Award, FIRST Vex Challenge
- 2004 Singapore, Singapore : Silver Award, World Robot Olympiad




*************2007*************
National Junior Robotics Competition
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Entrepreneur Award 1st
Best Research Award 1st
Best Image Award 1st

*************2006*************
****FIRST Robotics Singapore****
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The Project Management Award
The Most Prolific Fund Raiser Award
The Most Innovative Design Award
The Against All Odds Award

*************2006*************
National Junior Robotics Competition
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The Championship Award
Best Webpage Design Award 1st
Open Cat Water Sprint Award 1st
Best Webpage Design Award 2nd
Best Booth Design Award 2nd
Open Cat Water Sprint Award 2nd
Best Booth Design Award 3rd

*************2005*************
****FIRST Robotics Singapore****
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The Bots and Nuts Award
The Friends Award

*************2005*************
National Junior Robotics Competition
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The Championship Award
Best Performance Robot 1st
Most Bizzarre Robot Design Award 3rd
Best Mechanical Award 3rd
The Entrepreneur Award 3rd
The Best Marketing Gimmick Award 3rd

*************2004*************
****FIRST Robotics Singapore****
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The Champion Alliances Award
The Microsoft Management Award

*************2004*************
National Junior Robotics Competition
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Championship Award, NJRC
Most Bizzarre Robot Design Award 2nd
Best Mechanical Design Award 3rd
Best Programming Award 2nd
Best Programming Award 3rd
Most Creative Journal Award 1st
The Best Learning Experience Award 1st
Best Presentation Award 1st
Best Presentation Award 2nd
The Best Research Award 1st
The Best Website Design Award 1st
The Entrepreneur Award 2nd

*************2003*************
National Junior Robotics Competition
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The Championship Award
Best Programme Award 1st
Best Marketing Gimmick Award 1st
Best Performance Robot Award 2nd
Most Bizzarre Robot Design Award 2nd
Best Mechanical Design Award 2nd
Best Performance Robot Award 3rd

*************2003*************
Tanglin CC Robotics Competition
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Best Mentor Award

*************2002*************
National Junior Robotics Competition
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Best NewComer Award

*************2002*************
******FIRST Lego League******
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Best Mentor Award



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