Tay Eng Soon Award Winner - Razali

Our graduating student, Nur Muhd Razali Bin Abdun Hamid, has been awarded the Tay Eng Soon Award. This award is presented to the most outstanding student who had formerly graduated from ITE.

Read about his success story "Things changed after he changed".

2 NYP Scholars

We would like to congratulate both Colin and Jun Yao for being awarded the NYP scholarship. Both have definitely done well to deserve this scholarship. OLT catches up with Colin on his thoughts on being awarded the scholarship.

I would first like to say a big “Thank You” to the school - thank you for the caring lecturers and mentors, for the quality education and the good facilities. I’m extremely grateful to receive the NYP scholarship. Across the past 2 years, it’s been an amazing journey for me – actively participating in competitions and accomplishing some extent of success in some; starting up a club, excelling in studies and fostering meaningful friendships with my peers. I’m thankful for the scholarship as it will help me financially and better focus on achieving the goals and championing the ‘innovative’ spirit of NYP. Thank you NYP!

- Colin

Sharing from National Infocomm Scholar 2010 : Ivan Khor

Hi Everyone !

NIS 2010 Award Ceremony

I’ve recently been awarded the National Infocomm Scholarship (NIS) with IDA and BT Frontline, feeling both happy for myself and grateful to DMIT. I’m going to share with you my experience and process of getting the NIS. As mentioned somewhere in this blog, it’s awarded to keen learners and wanting-to-succeed performers, a chance to work with leading Infocomm companies and MNCs like Microsoft, Oracle, Barclays Capital, BT Frontline and 23 others. (Link: http://www.infocommtalent.sg/nis.aspx).

Ivan with Minister Lui

I had three fruitful years in DMIT, with my caring lecturers to thank for my outstanding academic results. I was given the chance to represent NYP and Singapore in the biennial Worldskills Competition. I also had my overseas industrial attachment with Cisco Systems (USA), which is available to each and every one of you. So why wait? There’s a lot more opportunities and challenges for fellow DMIT-ians to explore and take up!

Going on to share with you my experiences on getting the NIS. On the day of the scholarship interview, apart from the formal wear and my thick portfolio, there are other things that need preparation. You will have to understand what the company is doing, their visions and their directions. Be prepared that they will ask you tricky questions that you may never have thought of before. For example, “Which kind of boss you will like to work for, the employee benefits driven one, or the goal driven one?” Do not bother about telling them what are already stated in your resume because most likely, they would have already have read through them. You got to prove to the interviewers why you are the right one, how you can contribute to the company and vice versa, your keen interest in a career with them and also why you have chosen this path, to be an Infocomm professional. I came across this description of an interview somewhere and hope it might be useful for you.

“The fact that you were called up for interview is because, on paper, it shows that you are different from the other applicants and it’s worth their time to interview you and get to know you more. Now is the time for you to show your interviewers that their filtering system hasn’t gone wrong and you are the right one for them."

Before I end off, just want to urge all fellow DMIT-ians to look for opportunities that can make you the brightest star in the sky. Believe in yourself that you can be one!

Ivan Khor
Class of 2008

Alvin Teh wins Lee Kuan Yew award

We are very happy to share that Alvin Teh, a graduating DMIT student from the class of 2010, has won the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew award. This award is testimony to his outstanding academic results and demonstration of all-rounded abilities - a staggering perfect GPA of 4 and unprecedented 38 distinctions. Alvin also was awarded the Cisco Systems (USA) Gold and Outstanding Project Work awards. Congratulations to Alvin! ^-^

Alvin has been awarded Nanyang Scholarship by NTU, and will study B.Eng (Computer Science) at NTU. You can read more at http://www.nyp.edu.sg/aboutNYP/graduation/da_alvin.html

Singapore 2010 YOG Environment Challenge Game

Check out the Singapore 2010 YOG Environment Challenge, created by our talented DMIT students! It's an online game on Facebook where you can grow your own plant and share your harvest with friends. You will also stand a chance to win limited edition Singapore 2010 memorabilia! This game was also featured at the SYOGOC Panasonic signing ceremony!

Above: Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan (Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports) trying out this game at the ceremony.

DMIT students at Director's List Award event

28 Apr (Wed) was a joyful day for some of our DMIT students who were admitted into the Director's List for their outstanding academic performance. Congratulations! May this spur you unto greater academic heights! Take a peek into the event at http://picasaweb.google.com/OutsideTheLT/DirectorSList2009S2. ^-^

National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA)

NYAA is an exciting personal challenge to young people between the ages of 14 and 25. It is a balanced programme of activities designed to equip youth with personal qualities and skills to make a difference to themselves, their communities and their world.

Three of our MIT graduates, Eugene Tay, Kenken Lim & Elynn Pang were awarded the National Youth Achievement Gold Award (NYAA) on 2 Oct at the 9th NYAA Gold Award Ceremony 2009, which was graced by His Excellency President SR Nathan.

When asked for his feelings on achieving NYAA Gold Award, Eugene replied, "I'm pretty proud to have attained the NYAA award because I have challenged myself so much in this program and finally managed to complete it. It is definitely an honour to be able to receive the award from President S R Nathan. Completing the NYAA Program is a milestone in my life and the journey will definitely not end here. I am now a member of the NYAA Gold Award Holders’ Alumni (GAHA) and I hope that I will continue to be able to serve the community in many ways. It has been a memorable experience for me and the lessons I learned have been invaluable."

And how did he sum up the 3 years that he had with MIT @ NYP? "All in all, my 3 years in MIT and NYP have indeed been very fruitful from all angles. I built good and lasting friendships which I will treasure throughout the rest of my life."

As for Kenken, who took up the challenge to build her leadership qualities. She has discovered many more valuable skills in the process and has experienced much since. To her, she has now become more confident, mature in handling problems and crafting solutions for difficult situations. She is now much more aware of her strengths and weakness, hence, allowing her to work on her weakness to improve it. She added "This is not the end of the award, but the beginning of a lifelong learning process."

Winning at Code::XtremeApps:: 2009

Congratulations to our students and mentor Mr Jimmy Ang, the Dream Machine, on winning the Code::XtremeApps:: 2009 !!!

Some background on the competitions ... Competitors in this competition had to build an innovative and useful application within 24 hours. For this year's competition, participants came up with an innovative way to educate the public about the benefits of healthy living and the harmful effects of smoking. Some 119 teams took part in this competition and 17 teams were selected for final judging on 17 July 2009. AND ours came in FIRST :)

Said Colin Pang, team leader of winning team ‘Dream Machine’, “What I’ve learnt most about this competition is the importance of perseverance: you never know just how much you can achieve within 24 hours, and the results will amaze you.”

The team came up with a suite of healthcare programmes for mobile phones based on the Google Android platform. They worked non-stop for 24 hours, and kept awake with a diet of Red Bulldrinks, sweets and biscuits. Some machines they are !!!

PlanetKY would like to say THANKS!

PlanetKY has a good news to share with you guys! :D

Our team has managed to move on to round 3, the finals! We are ranked top 6 in the world now! :D

We would like to thanks all of you for your support! Without the support from all of you, we could never get a chance to go to Cairo, Egypt, to share our idea & our VENews application with the whole world!

Now we are one more step closer to solving one of the world's toughest problem - Ensure Environmental Sustainability - we will try our best to get as many people's attention to be alert on environmental issues as much as possible! ;)

Once again, thanks everyone for the support!! ;)

Please continue to support us and pass the message to your friends!

Come & change the world with the PlanetKY!

Official Website - http://mit-nyp.net/planetky/index.html

For those whom don't know why are you seeing PlanetKY here, it's because we are actually MIT graduates. ;)

29 Year-old NYP Graduate On The Track To Be Millionaire

Danny Tan Kee Chen, a graduate from the Diploma in Multimedia System Engineering (predecessor to Multimedia Infocomm Technology), is on the verge of becoming a millionaire. He is the CEO of Shanghai Mopie Information Technology Co. (Mopietek), and owns 100% of Luckybull Limited.

Luckybull became the target of an acquisition by Enzer, a Singapore-listed company. As a result of a deal with Enzer just concluded, Danny is on the verge of becoming a multi-millionaire - at the age of 29.

Based in Shanghai now, Danny says he will re-invest in another project with higher returns, once he receives his payout.



Click HERE to read more about his story.

Jason Wu - NIS Recipient !!!

The National Infocomm Scholarship (NIS) aims to develop talent and nurture future leaders to help drive Singapore's infocomm industry. Offered in partnership with leading infocomm companies, NIS provides both the prestige of a government scholarship and valuable private sector work exposure.

Jason Wu (2007), is one of the recipients of the NIS this year. After completing his national service, he shall be undertaking the Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) degree at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) which will be sponsored by the Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT).


I met up with Jason for dinner and a chat last week. Let’s listen to what he has to say:







The most accurate word to describe my feelings when I heard that I was going to receive the National Infocomm Scholarship was ... Surprised!!! Because as far as I believed, only perfect people with perfect grades who juggled many CCAs and actively participated in community activities inside and outside school would receive scholarships. I felt really lucky, more than anything else.

I applied for the National Infocomm Scholarship (NIS) on its official website. I had to fill up an online form with details regarding my academic results, CCAs (secondary and polytechnic) and also had to describe my career and life objectives.

I also had to choose the companies that I will work at following the completion of my education at NTU. Choosing the company is a very significant choice since the successful recipient of the scholarship will be bonded with the company for 3 years following the completion of degree course. You will also be attached to this company for your internship programme while at the university.

I think that the online application is really important because it is the first thing that the companies have to judge whether they would like to sponsor you for the scholarship. Whether or not you will get shortlisted depends on how well you can impress them at this stage.

Following the online application, I was asked to take a psychometric test. It consisted of written tests that assessed language, mathematics proficiency and also logical thinking ability.

Sometime after that, I was asked to go for an interview with a company that was considering to sponsor me. My interviewers were interested in my personal background, and my reasons for choosing their company. It’s very important to build rapport with the interviewers because their impression of you will determine whether they decide to sponsor you. After all, the company is making a huge investment by sponsoring you and it is only natural that they want to be sure that you are worth it.

I believe that being an MIT student has given me an edge over other NIS applicants. Being exposed to various disciplines of Infocomm has piqued my interest and encouraged me to pursue a career as an IT professional.

Having a scholarship on your resume definitely makes you stand out more than others. Considering that the process of getting a scholarship can be quite tedious and only a certain percentage of students are able to receive them, it is quite certain to put you in good stead in the future.

If you are seriously interested in a career in the Infocomm industry, I would encourage you to go ahead and apply for the NIS :)


Reported by Swee Lin

here's the full list for the National Infocomm Scholarship 2007 scholars.
http://www.ida.gov.sg/doc/News%20and%20Events/News_and_Events_Level2/20070914165721/MR150907AnnexA.pdf

NYP Chinese Orchestra Video !

All of you have probably heard about the Gold award that our Chinese Orchestra has clinched in the 18th Australian International Music Festival. Now, OLT is proud to bring you their superb performance ... Enjoy !



Video contributed by Jacqueline Leow and edited by Francois Polo

OLT Advice : For optimum enjoyment, wait a while for video to load before playing it. Audio can also be quite loud, hence, tune for desired sound level.

OLT Comment : There are 3 musical pieces that were performed in the competition. We extracted out the last piece entitled "龙腾虎跃".

LKY STEP Award

Hi Guys, I am Ziwei, from NYP, Dip in Multimedia Infocomm Technology, Year 1, E7.

A little bit of my background, I am someone who hopped from one job to another after my GCE 'O' Level in 1999. However, encouraged by my National Service friends who are ITE graduates, I decided to join ITE.

In ITE, I was given many opportunities to develop not only my technical skills, but myself in many ways. As the president of the Student Council Central (MacPherson Campus), I represented ITE in dialogue sessions including those with Minister of Education, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and Minister of State(Education), Mr Gan Kim Yong.

Apart from these I also participated in Youth Exchange programmes in Singapore Malaysia Youth Camp held in Pahang. I also represented ITE to go for Indonesia leadership training camp. I also went Vietnam for 1 month to study for CCNA Intro Examination, in their local computer school VSIC.

On top of all these I am also involved in community service programmes for the elderly poor in Singapore. I also went over to Yunnan/China to help needy villages there for 18 days.

In spite of these involvements, I stayed true to my goal. I had a perfect GPA 4.0. It takes a lot of determination and focus to achieve this.

But I must say ITE has transformed my life forever and allowed me a second chance in my life to get back into Singapore educational stream.

I am thankful and glad that ITE and Poly gave me this LKY STEP AWARD (Scholarship To Encourage Upgrading) to aid me in carrying on my studies in POLY.

I must say this, what you had achieved will not determine what you are going to get in your future. It is the determination, focus, hard work and attitude that you put in that will enable you to achieve what you will be getting. Now in NYP, my heart and soul goes fully into achieving good results for my modules.

Though life in Poly and ITE is not the same, still the basic principle of studying still applies. NYP definitely taught me in my first semester how to go about studying for my exams, how to listen to important points from the lecture and how to do my practical to the expectation of my lecturers

Lastly, thank you once again ITE and Poly for the award. My goal will not just stop here, and I urge all students like me to join me in achieving your own personal goals. I am sure through our course, with hard work and determination, our goals could be met.




Taken with Minister of State for Education Mr Gan Kim Yong

For more pictures

Contributed by Ho Zi Wei

LTA-Polytechnic Collaboration Competition 2007

In this year's annual LTA-Polytechnic Collaboration Competition, our DMIT students did us proud by winning the Gold Award!

The project, "Temperature Profile Analyzer for Subway Environmental Simulation(SES) Program", was to develop an application that could extract information from 2 files and plot a graph automatically, while allowing the engineers to visually analyze the graph easily and effectively.

Students Hui Hui and Jason, who presented the project, had the following to say:

We were selected to represent NYP at the LTA-Polytechnic Collaboration held at Republic Polytechnic. We had to present our project to the public in a big lecture theatre. It was a very enriching experience since we had never done a presentation on a stage and to such a large audience before.

It's great to work on a industrial project since you realize that all the technical skills you learn in school can actually be applied in the industry. It also gives us a great sense of satisfaction knowing that the project we developed will actually be used by real engineers and that it has helped to make their life easier.

Well done, Jason, Hui Hui and all the other students who helped developed this project!

Sterling Group Web Design Competition 2006

Our students did us proud by winning the 1st prize in the Sterling Group Web Design Competition 2006!

The 4 students developed a dynamic multimedia-intensive web site on the use of engineering to address the challenges of global warming. Their winning website was judged based on the imagination, creativity and flair amongst the competitors.

Well done Chee Wee, Claudia, Zheng Guo and Tang Chee from the Class of 2006!

Click on the following picture and check out their winning entry!