Toh Hui Shan's

Teaching Assistant

A picture of the Teaching Assistants and professor for my lab group!

I'm privileged that my professor who taught me for one of my university Electrical Engineering modules believed in my abilities to be one of his Teaching Assistants for the same module! Aside from guiding students in their laboratory tasks and reports, it was truly fulfilling to do work hand in hand with like-minded Teaching Assistants and professors. Not everyone has the chance to be recognised for their efforts beyond academics, and looking back, I'm so glad that I said yes to the opportunity when it was first presented to me!

Outreach Ambassador

In my university days, I have the chance to engage with prospective students at education fairs and booths. I enjoy connecting with them and share more about the Electrical Engineering programme at NUS!

On top of that, I also help out in outreach workshops for prospective students . One of the most memorable one for me was being one of the mentors for Sustainable Housing Materials and Technology Workshop. Although the workshop content is not directly related to my area of studies, I truly enjoyed learning more about the design and engineering aspects of the built environment alongside with the students and providing perspectives from what I have learned from my discipline. My mentees, as a group The Lorax, won best presentation! So proud of them with coming up with a compelling narrative that engaged the audience while seamlessly incorporating relevant content of the workshop into their work 😎.

Participants, organising committee and professors who made the Sustainable Housing Materials and Technology Workshop successful

The Lorax and their designed 'Shroom as Cool House as part of the Sustainable Housing Materials and Technology Workshop

Another interesting experience is helping out in the AI Turtlebot Workshop. Although I specialise in robotics, the learning curve was steeper than learning how to simulate robots, like how I previously did for one of my modules. I appreciate the guidance from my professor, as well as other Teaching Assistants from Computer Engineering, for the space to learn from my mistakes!

I was with another team while they were testing their robot!

Photo to end the workshop on the right note 🤖

Tutoring

Since August 2023, I have been tutoring primary school and secondary school students. At first, it simply saw the opportunity as a way to make an additional source of income. Along the way, I have interacted with students from all walks of life. It is always heartwarming to see that they are putting in the effort to improve themselves.

Interacting with younger children helps me reflect. As people around them, we can have a significant impact on these younger beings, whether we are conscious of it or not. Every encouragement can serve as a motivation for them to work harder, and play an important role to fulfill their potential. It is crucial to be careful with how we make them feel through our words and actions as it can shape their perceptions, which ultimately shape their beliefs and values.

It is meaningful to empower these children to realise what they are capable of and achieve what they can. By helping these children in their academics as well as instilling hope and confidence in them at the same time makes this journey extremely fulfilling! 🥰

Curated questions as tutoring material

Self-made flashcard as tutoring material

DSTA BrainHack SpaceCube Competition 2025

BrainHack is unique hands-on experience for secondary school students and up, to provide a platform for students to explore the future of digital technology. Students get to dive into the realms of Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Space Tech, Software Development, Robotics and many more.

Our group joined the SpaceCube competition, which is challenge revolving around Space Tech. We get to explore space technology and compete to assemble and integrate a CubeSat. Going into the compete with no prior knowledge actually made the process of learning and tackling the issues at hand a humbling one! Although our group didn't win any prizes, we truly enjoyed one another's company and took home many knowledge and skills with us. 🛰️

We had a chance to take a picture with the first female commercial spaceship pilot and the first artist selected to go to be an astronaut on the all-civilian Inspiration4 orbital spaceflight. Such a pleasure to meet her!

This is my group with our CubeSat! My group mates (bottom row from the left) are Ray, Ethan, (top row from the left) Nabeel and Glenn. We were called Kerbal Space Agency! 🛰️

Relief Lab Technician

I graduated from SheCodes in early 2023, where I learnt the basics of front-end web development. I really love their courses even though they are all online (because I prefer face-to-face courses)! Besides having the freedom to go through the lessons at my own pace, the weekly lessons are split into tasks with

• teaching and demonstration video,
• challenge which is hands-on mini task and
• solution video/code.

Tools and technologies that I have learnt to use include

• VS Code,
• HTML5,
• CSS,
• JavaScript,
• Bootstrap,
• React.js and
• GitHub.

Check out my SheCodes profile and certifications 👉 here !

A leadership opportunity that shaped me into an individual who can better understand others' situations is being a Project Lead for Junior College 2 Ora House-based Values-in-Action (VIA) Activity on Deep Dive Day 2 2022 in Eunoia Junior College (EJC).

From crafting the initial proposal to collating ideas and feedback from our beneficiary, the Non-Teaching Staff (NTS) in EJC, and finally executing the individualised activities for each class, it was a fruitful journey for me. It was not easy to negotiate and not miss out the different stakeholders' intentions and resources when communicating with them. Through this journey of leading, the importance of mindful listening was the most significant lesson learnt.

Besides, there were also some unexpected problems that surfaced though, such me falling sick for 2 weeks. This pushed back the execution of tasks that are supposed to be carried out in these 2 weeks. Thankfully, tasks were planned ahead so we were not behind time by a lot. From this snippet, I have learnt that ahead-of-time planning is necessary, but adaptability will also be an essential asset for a leader.