What's the fuss about art and science? Find out with Atom and the Dot workshops

Try your hand at a Rube Goldberg experiment. Each Atom and the Dot box is filled with materials and instructions for fun and engaging art and science activities for children. Photo: Atom and the Dot

There are many things that childhood friends Teo Jin Hui and Sheena Moh want to achieve with homegrown startup Atom and the Dot. But one message stands out: that science and art are more intertwined than most people realise, and that learning can be fun.

Connecting the dots has never been a strong focal point of our education system. Many concepts taught at school remain mere abstractions that exist only within the pages of a textbook. Could there be a more dreary way to represent the wonders around us?