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Tech For Good (T4G) by Engineering Good is an annual innovation festival that unites young innovators aged 18-30, technical mentors, and community partners to develop Assistive Technology (AT) that benefits persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their caregivers.
From June to September, participants go through ideation, prototyping, and iteration, culminating in a public festival to showcase their prototypes.
Your invention could be incubated and implemented to change lives!
Registration Period for Innovators and Technical Advisors
Innovator Interviews
Announcement of Confirmed Innovators
Guided Build Sessions
6 compulsory build sessions for teams to better understand assistive technology and build their prototypes with their mentor and community partners.
Open Consult Sessions
Teams can receive support for their prototypes by visiting EG's Makerspace or NLB MakeIT makerspaces.
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Public Festival
Innovators will display inventions to the public at the National Library Plaza, featuring talks and an inclusive marketplace of social enterprises. Selected solutions will be incubated to create working prototypes from Oct 2022 onwards.
Incubation
Post-festival, Engineering Good will evaluate solutions with community partners and experts. Promising solutions will be selected for further development into minimum viable products (MVPs) starting October 2023. Engineering Good supports projects with funding and volunteers in an open-source environment.
Teams not selected are welcome to continue their journey and publish their projects on our platform. You never know who might find your solution helpful!
Tech for Good is organised by
Discover our impact through past festivals! See how our community of innovators came together to create positive change through technology, from our first T4G in 2019 to our most recent events.
The inaugural edition featured over 50 challenge statements from 16 Community Partners. 29 shortlisted teams showcased their prototypes at the Festival held at The Plaza, National Library (Bugis) on 2 November 2019.
The Festival was a flurry of activities from teams showcasing their innovations, assistive switches workshops and music performances. The event was graced by Minister Desmond Lee and visited by over 200 members of the public.
Key projects included a one-handed nail trimmer for a stroke survivor, an image recognition AI that guides blind people when crossing the road, and a penguin toy & game that teaches children with special needs about their neighbourhood.
Check out our media mentions for 2019βs event here:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the innovation challenge was taken online as Go Digital ASEAN, a Tech For Good Innovation Challenge, in partnership with The Asia Foundation, with support from Google.org. This event aimed to empower youths with disabilities in finding, enabling and retaining employment through innovative software solutions.
4 shortlisted teams participated in an online Bootcamp covering design thinking and inclusive design, hearing from professionals in accessible fashion and technology. They showcased their innovations at the online event, where experts in Assistive Technology shared their insights and feedback. Engineering Good has continued to support the projects EasyBoard and EyeHear.
Check out our 2020 media mentions here:
In 2021, Tech For Good was back in full-force through the virtual realms of Zoom and Gather Town! With a whopping 150 students in 40 teams, 40 mentors 26 problem statements and 10 community partners, it was our biggest run to date. Projects include: improving telescope canes for the visually impaired, tablet application to encourage cognitive stimulation in elderly and everything in between! EG has also continued to nurture 5 projects, such as a smart walker for the elderly, a chrome extension that aims to make the web more accessible, and a smart pulley system for better upper body rehabilitation.
The teams showcased their innovations at our online Festival on 6 Nov 2021, where Minister Desmond Lee, and representatives from our co-producer, Singapore Institute of Technology, Assoc Prof Intan Azura Mokhtar and Prof Yaacob Bin Ibrahim shared words of inspiration and wisdom in our opening and closing ceremonies.
The Festival also saw our first Assistive Technology Dialogue β Habitech: Living with Assistive Technology. Our 5 guest speakers, who are persons with disabilities, showcased the assistive technology they use in their daily lives. The dialogue was enriched with interesting insights about accessible mainstream tech and the surprising cost of assistive devices. The candid conversation left the audience with food-for-thought about how assistive technology can be made more accessible to more people. You can watch all these and more on our YouTube channel.
2022 saw the ease of event restrictions and we finally could go back to National Library Plaza @ Bugis! This year saw a new format where 6 community partners chose problem statements they wanted to focus on for the year. Each community partner worked with 5 teams and 5 mentors to tackle their problem statement. This meant our community partners had a higher chance of success to create an appropriate and realistic solution for their community.
The projects were:
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30 teams and 30 mentors showcased their inventions at the Public Festival, where 970+ visitors came by to learn more about their solutions. Watch their presentations on our YouTube channel. The festival go-ers heard a lunchtime dialogue where our community partners share more about their problem statements, and patronized a marketplace comprising of social enterprises supporting persons with disabilities.
We ended the day with our Guest-of-Honour, Mr Eric Chua, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth & Ministry of Social and Family Development, sharing about the Enabling Masterplan.
Check out our 2022 media mentions here:
