Philips "Future Living Spaces in Singapore" Student Contest

There is an ongoing contest by Philips. Do take some time to participate in this contest.

Students are to imagine the future and propose ideas to make a difference in improving the living spaces, health and well-being of people in Singapore.


The areas of the contest are: the issues of aging population, increasing urbanization, crowded cities or climate change.

The deadline for the submission is 19 September 2011. More information of this student contest can be found at: http://bit.ly/nGUXYH

Eco-Flea Market


RP’s Eco Flea Market is back!

Many of us are very fortunate, and are able to afford stuffs like nice clothes, iPods, MacBooks, story books etc . Even though we are able to afford all this, we mustn't forget that there are people who unable to afford the things which has become necessities to us.

Parents always think of their child's wants, before their own, and wish to provide the best for their child. However, due to financial issues, it isn't always possible for them to fulfill their children's desires. If we are able to help them and contribute to helping our environment, why not?




Internal Collection is from now till 31st August 2011 @ Republic Polytechnic Collection Point

The items collected will be given to low income families, followed by RP staff and students. ( The rest of it will be given to the Salvation Army, or are recycled)


Home Collection Service (for more than 10 NTUC plastic bags of contributions) - sign up by 31st August (Wednesday)

For RP staff and students to sign up:

http://myrp.rp.sg/SLA/Chiron/Lists/Eco%20Flea%20Market%202011%20Sign%20Up%20for%20Home%20Collection%20S/overview.aspx

For Public to sign up:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGZZT05MbTY0aHZneWhDdVdXd2ZQZXc6MQ

Please help to forward this email to your friends, family or contacts to see if they would like to contribute as well and support this meaningful cause!


Welcome Tea 2011

For this year's welcome tea, we have Lim Yuan Yi to organize the event, with support from the seniors and year 2s. We had a video, a speech, food and fun games and activities prepared for them.

Video
The video was done by Yu Lin. She had just started working on the video 1 month before the actual day. It wasn't easy to make a video as you need to match it with words, music, background sound and most importantly bring the message across. Even though in the end the video was not perfect, the effort and time she's willing to put in is something that most people admire and wish to possess.

Speech
A speech was done by Amy Choong (our advisor) and Lim Jing Kai ( Our head of public relation, 2010). Amy's speech is about why do we have Conservation IG, and why do we care about our environment (educational speech), while Jing Kai's speech is more related to what our IG had done in the past till the upcoming events. This year we also have our senior Alena Huang , Chew Yao Jie and Herman Seah to share their experience and what have they learnt in IG.


Fun Games and Activities
This year the games was planned by Louis Lee and Lim Yuan Yi. They prepared six games, but were only able to play three games due to time constraints (I guess we have to wait till TICE).

We hope that all of you enjoyed the games prepared by them~






Food
I don't want to say this, but there is shortage of food~ I am very sorry about it, it is not that we are stingy about food. It's about food wastage, we always tried to control the amount of food wastage thus, it is important to inform us about your attendance so we can cater the right amount of food for you all~ ^.^

Background knowledge about food waste:

Food waste is one of Singapore's main problem in waste management. As it contains a lot of moisture, our incineration plant will have to put in more energy to burn all these food wastage.
(This contributes to waste of energy)




Everyone!!! Thanks for organizing and joining this welcome tea~ Hope you have enjoyed it like i did. Do join our IG and come for our meeting if you have not joined (don't be shy). n_n
the IG is not just about one person; it's about everyone. Everybody can have a part to play in treasuring the things around us. A little consideration from people, private sector and public could contributes great help for our nature.

~Let's Go Green Be Active~