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Connecting with Chinese nationals through Weibo, ST, 25 March 2013
Four final year project students – Tan Xin Qi Lisa, Tan Sie Mun, Chia Zhaoyuan Alvin, Woo Zhen Wei – have set up a Weibo account, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, to help Chinese nationals living here to learn about Singaporean society and culture in a light-hearted way.
Posted on: 26 March 2013
Survey result: Singaporeans appear to be happiest people in Asia
Lianhe Zaobao, page 5, 20 March 2013
A survey based on what people are saying on social media has shown that Singaporeans are among Asia’s happiest people. The survey is conducted by Eden Strategy Institute (ESI), a consultancy on social innovation, and tracks the use of predetermined words by users of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs and online forums. The result is contrary to a Gallup poll last year that claimed that few Singaporeans experienced positive emotions. Asst Prof Shirley Ho Soo Yee from NTU’s WKWSCI, believes that the survey result does not represent the view of most Singaporeans, and that it just shows that Singaporeans who often use social media are happy because they treat social network sites as a platform to entertain and express their own opinions.
Posted on: 20 March 2013
The Rise & Shine Campaign gets into the Singapore Book of Records!
Besides spearheading an extensive breakfast campaign for kids, four NTUWKWSCI students have gotten into the Singapore Book of Records for gathering the most number of people to eat breakfast together.
The Rise & Shine Carnival brought together more than 1,300 people to The Lawn@Marina Bay on the morning of 3rd March, Sunday, with around 800 families enjoying picnics, sports tryouts and stage performances.
The event was graced by guest-of-honour Minister of State of for Health, Dr Amy Khor, and co-organised together with a group of mothers who are holding a health expo in September.
The main aim of the record-breaking carnival was to promote a healthy start to the day for kids and the importance of family bonding.
Posted on: 04 March 2013
The Rise & Shine Breakfast Campaign makes headlines in Straits Times and Shin Min!
Four NTUWKWSCI undergraduates came together to spearhead the Rise & Shine Breakfast Campaign, Singapore’s most extensive breakfast campaign for children as part of their Final Year Project. Since last December, this community movement has been travelling to public libraries, shopping malls and primary schools across Singapore to reach out to parents and children to spread their messages through thought-provoking ambient installations, interactive theatre performances and other on-the-ground activities such as cooking demonstrations and storytelling sessions. The campaign culminates into a breakfast picnic carnival which will see an attempt to break into the Singapore Book of Records for the Largest Breakfast Picnic on 3rd March 2013 at The Lawn@Marina Bay. Two independently conceived entities but with a common objective of raising happier and healthier children, the FYP team co-organises the Rise & Shine Carnival together with a group of mothers under the Rise & Shine Expo.
Posted on: 22 February 2013
Wooing the stork with fairytale spin
A group of NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information students is telling fairytales in an effort to encourage young couples to live happily ever after - by having children earlier. Four final-year communication studies students have rewritten 15 popular stories, giving them a witty spin about fertility and encouraging Singaporeans to start a family. The stories, published at www.thesingaporeanfairytale.com, is a six-month long campaign, one of the five projects to benefit from Project Superglue – a pilot grant scheme the National Family Council to fund youth projects that promote family bonding.
Posted on: 13 February 2013
Encouraging marriages and births through fairy tales: NTU undergraduates reinterpret "Happily ever after"
To encourage young people to get married and give birth earlier, four NTU undergraduates from WKWSCI have merged fairy tales with "hard truths" and come up with new stories, including one about a Golden Goose that can no longer lay eggs as it is too old, an allusion to the fertility challenges that women face above the age of 35. The concept is part of their Final Year Project, and it is one of five projects that has benefited from Project Superglue, a pilot grant scheme launched by National Family Council to fund youth projects that promote family bonding. Selected projects will be showcased as part of NFC's National Family Celebrations in June 2013.
Posted on: 13 February 2013
Funds for youth projects promoting family bonding
The National Family Council has launched a pilot scheme to encourage youths to start projects that promote family values and bonding. Called Project Superglue, the scheme will provide successful applicants one-time funding of up to S$10,000. One group which received funds created a collection of tales called Happily Ever After ... Now What? They put their own spin on well-known fairy tales, incorporating information about fertility issues. NTU undergraduate Chan Luo Er said the group plans to distribute their books in universities here.
Posted on: 13 February 2013
The Youth Hawkerprise Campaign makes headlines again!
The Youth Hawkerprise Campaign, a Final Year Project by 4 CS undergrads-Eunice Chew, Hazel Tan, Mark Cheng and Wendy Aw, have been featured in a full page spread on Straits Times that was published on 5th February 2013! The article shares about the lives of existing youth hawkers and their success stories of running a business and being a "Youth Hawkerpreneur". This youth initiated movement is timely with the government's plans to build 10 new hawker centres in the coming years and the Youth Hawkerprise team have garnered much support for their efforts to encourage more youths to take up the hawker trade. The Youth Hawkerprise photo exhibition is open to public at Tiong Bahru Market till 7th February 2013!
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Reporters who graduated from WKWSCI covered Nomination Day for the Punggol East by-election
At least 8 reporters covering Nomination Day for the Punggol East by-election, held on 16 January 2013, were from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information.
They represented six news agencies at North Vista Secondary School where they waited for candidates to put in their nomination papers for the hustings on 26 January.
The reporters are Annabelle Liang (on professional internship at AFP), Philip Lim ( graduated 2010, correspondent for AFP), Jeanette Tan (graduated 2011, reporter for Yahoo! News Singapore), Lee Lay Ming (graduated 2010, reporter for Shin Min Daily News), Elizabeth Law (graduated 2012, journalist for The New Paper), Alvina Soh (graduated 2009, reporter for Channel NewsAsia), Elizabeth Soh (graduated 2010, reporter for Yahoo! News Singapore), and Yong Shu Hui (graduated 2010, senior broadcast journalist for SAFRA Radio).
Posted on: 21 January 2013
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The comedic talent, Mr. Rishi Budhrani
The school would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to our alumni Mr. Rishi Budhrani, who is the first Singaporean winner of the Hong Kong International Comedy Competition in October last year! For more information, please visit our FaceBook page at www.facebook.com/WKWSchool
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