Hi everybody! We are back with our new post about our annual Course Bonding Day! Before we start, how is everybody coping with the new annual year? We hope everything is okay so far! Okay, let's move on!

Okay, our annual Course Bonding Day happened on 23rd June 2017, and students from Year 1s to Year 3s attended it, and I am pretty sure we all had a fun time! Our student chapter members took about 1 month planning it, and we hoped all of you had as much fun participating as we had planning it. 

Let's take you through the flow of the bonding day!

 

Here, we have our participants playing our icebreakers led by the Group Leaders, our Student Chapters Year 1s!

Let's move on to the Station Games! We had a total of 5 station games, namely: Blindfold Maze, Charades, Chopsticks Flip, Dog & Bone and Paper Mines. Let's take a look on how the games were played. 

 Charades: This game was played T11B level 3 corridor, our game master gave one person a word and the group had to work together to figure it out, it was truly bonding activity as the groups had to work together in order to figure out what the word was and to collect as many points as possible to win the grand prize!

 Chopsticks Flip: This game was played along the tables in Food Court 3. Chopsticks were given and we have to put it at the edge of the table. Then, try our best to flip it into the cups. The cups were labeled with points depending on the distance.

 Dog & Bone: This game was played at Sports Arena basement, where participants played together to try and get as many points as possible. Groups were split into 2 and they raced against each other to get to the cup first. This  station was such a workout!

Blindfold Maze: This last game was also played at the Polycentre. Participants had to complete tasks regarding the paper mines on the floor, and even having to work together as a group to get past the mines. I'm pretty sure participants feel closer to their teammates after this game!

Before we wrapped up the day, we had a short tea-break and our Mass Game: Capture the Flag. 

Overall, I'm pretty sure both the participants and Student Chapter members had a great and enjoyable day bonding together, getting to know each other more throughout the different years. The student chapter members hope all the participants enjoyed their day with us, and we hope to see you again next year! 

With love,

DPCS Publicity Team

Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying your time now that the exams are over and the holidays have started! Today, we'll look back on the J&J talk conducted back in the term.

On the 25th of January, Johnson & Johnson conducted a talk for us students from Year 1 to Year 3s at LT7. The talk was conducted by Dr. Abhinav from J&J, where he talked more about himself, how the company works and the different processes before a product is placed into the market.

Dr. Abhinav completed his PhD in Polymer Science from National University of Singapore, and he is currently a R&D Senior Scientist formulating Neutrogena and Clean & Clear products for Johnson & Johnson. 

Dr Abhinav elaborating on the different stakeholders involved in the process of producing a product. Everybody was paying attention to what he was saying and listening attentively.

Firstly, he talked about his personal lifestyle, how he made it to his PhD program in NUS and eventually his likes and dislikes. He then moved on to talk about Chemistry and J&J, where he shared his real-life experiences in formulating and developing a product. Afterwards, he moved on to accept questions for the Q&A, where students asked him questions about the job and others!

Overall, it was an enriching experience to hear about the first-hand experience of working in a company like Johnson and Johnson and how the job as a research scientist works! We'd like to thank Dr. Abhinav once again for coming down all the way to SP to conduct this talk for us!

With love,
DPCS Publicity Team

Hi everybody! I hope your Chinese New Year was well spent with your loved ones eating good food and collecting angbaos! As promised, we're back with another post about a CIP conducted just before CNY with the kids from LCSS. 

For this CIP, we decided to teach the kids to make some simple CNY decorations such as angbao fishes, fire crackers, and lanterns to expose them to some Chinese culture as many of them are not Chinese.

We were delighted to have our ex president, Christine join us for this CIP session with the kids!

 On to our next activity, making the paper firecrackers!

 After the Arts and Crafts session was done, we told the children some stories about what we'd do during CNY, and also interacted with them and got to know them better. This session was certainly meaningful and we hope it allowed the kids to have fun and also get to know a new culture better!

To end off, we hope you guys enjoyed your CNY this year (rushing projects and presentations), and good luck for the upcoming exams! We'll be back with another update soon!

 With love,

DPCS Publicity team

Hello everyone!
On 19 Dec, some of us went over to Life Community Service Society to bring them to the Science Center to learn about the environment during the school holidays.


We started off by introducing ourselves to get to know each other's names and then we played some mini ice breaker games such as blow wind blow.




Then we started to split up into groups of 5. We also gave the kids an activity sheet to fill in some answers that were related to the things that they would be seeing at the science center.




















After that, we had our lunch and headed onto the bus, and we arrived at the science center and went to the environment session.


We had a lot of fun exploring the center, and learning more about the environment while interacting with the children.


Time flew and a few hours later, it was time for us to head back.

Hope you  guys enjoyed this post! We'll be back soon with another update!