HMGICS is announcing new partnerships and programs that aim to empower young people and communities, advance sustainability, and nurture future leaders in Singapore and across the ASEAN region.
First, a tie-up with OceanX brings science off the YouTube screen and onto the deck of OceanXplorer, billed as one of the most advanced marine research and media vessels on the planet. Secondary school students will step aboard to see ocean tech and robotics at work, then carry that curiosity back to HMGICS for hands-on workshops in sustainable mobility.
In 2026, OceanX will fold into the HMGICS Annual Hackathon with a robotics brief, mentorship and judging duties. The idea is to show young minds the planet they’re trying to save, then hand them the tools to start saving it.
Second, there’s a new memorandum of understanding with Temasek Foundation, anchored on TF-SCALE where 240 students from Singapore’s ITE and four ASEAN schools will take immersive Learning Journeys through HMGICS.
Cross-cultural teams, future-of-work skills, real-world sustainability projects; it’s leadership training with oil under the fingernails. Beyond TF-SCALE, both sides are exploring longer-term initiatives to keep the pipeline of talent wide and inclusive.
“HMGICS was founded with a human-centric mission: to redefine future mobility and create value that extends beyond the product. By investing in young people and enabling real-world access to science, engineering, and sustainability, we aim to contribute to Singapore’s innovation economy and empower future generations across the region.”
Dr Hyun Sung Park, CEO of HMGICS
A Year of Rolling Up Sleeves
HMGICS has seeded multi-year programmes with ITE, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, SIT, SUTD and LASALLE. Programs such as EV donations of made-in-Singapore IONIQ 5s for technical learning are the sort of lab-to-industry line-of-sight students rarely get.
Add to that Smart Farm produce for The Food Bank Singapore, support for disadvantaged youths and students with special needs, Discovery Tours, a Smart Food Lab and even SPOT robot coding workshops.
Participation in Go Green SG and programming around 50 years of Singapore–South Korea diplomatic relations signals a centre that understands culture as a catalyst, not a backdrop. The technology may be cutting-edge, but the values are very much old-school: build trust, share knowledge, give back.
Why This Matters (Beyond the Factory Gates)
HMGICS exists to fuse production, R&D and customer experience in one place. The centre’s mission sits comfortably alongside Singapore’s vision for an innovation-driven, low-carbon economy, with programmes designed to equip youths not just to get jobs, but to create them.
With OceanX bringing the deep ocean into sharp focus for students, and Temasek Foundation pushing leadership and collaboration across ASEAN, year two looks less like consolidation and more like acceleration. Expect more hack-challenges, more cross-border cohorts, and more of that useful friction where creative young people meet hard engineering constraints.
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