Research@Raffles aims to provide students, who have exceptional ability and interest in science, with an early and sustained experience in science research work in niche areas such as life sciences, materials engineering, photonics, chemical instrumentation analysis, energy and communications.

These students will have the opportunity to be engaged in authentic learning through research projects, internships and attachments with partner institutions such as Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA) and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Students will have the opportunity to commit to long term research attachments up to two years. Together with research leaders at the local research institutes, teachers from the Raffles schools will also mentor the students in their progress and provide the basic skills training necessary for engagement in higher level research.

An expansion of RJC’s current research mentoring programmes in terms of scope, research positions and partner institutions, Research@Raffles will be conducted in six special research laboratories at the new RJC campus as well as at the partner research institutes. In the pipeline are also series of lectures and attachments to fire up our students’ passion in science research work.

As part of RJC’s outreach efforts to cater to the specialised learning needs of talented students in local secondary schools who are keenly interested in science and technology, we will be offering the Raffles Summer School programme. The Raffles schools (Raffles Girls’ Secondary, Raffles Institution and RJC) will identify and invite Secondary 2 and 3 students to participate in this programme aimed at cultivating a strong interest in science among local secondary school students. We feel that the collaboration of talented and enthusiastic students, with greater peer motivation, exchange of ideas and synergy of thoughts, will enhance the learning environment.