2021-2022
I was chosen as the Captain by my teachers and coach in 2021. I was honoured to be chosen as the captain but I was worried that I would not be able to live up to the expectations of others. I was the bridge between my teammates and my teachers, having to pass on messages from my teachers to teammates. I was also able to help my teammates voice their concerns to the teachers.
However, I felt the most important thing I had to do was to bring my team together. Because everyone came from very different backgrounds and classes, we did not click together immediately. I had to think of ways to help my team become stronger through bonding activities for example angel and mortal.
It was an amazing experience, though that were tough moments I enjoyed every bit of my journey. I was able to hone my leadership skills and learn new ways to encourage my team whenever they were feeling down or demoralised.
2024
My objective of joining Saints’ Tutorly was to make use of my knowledge about H2 Mathematics to help my juniors who may be struggling in the subject. I’m not sure how the J1s might feel about this whole event but I do feel that if I this platform was available when I was in J1 it would be more encouraging and in a way more comforting.
Well of course while helping others I do benefit as well since I’ll be able to recall the J1 topics that I may have forgotten over the past few months. Throughout this process, I would say that I have been able to learn to become more patient and to think about more innovative ways to explain the math concepts. Since it may not always be easy to understand math, but making use of real life examples would perhaps make it easier. This programme has allowed me to grow as an individual to become a more patient person.
Patience is something that I believe everyone individual should have because as we enter society, it would undoubtedly come into good use. I would think that patience helps you to make more informed decisions and not to be too rash into doing a task and to think about the consequences before acting upon it. This is by far the most important lesson I have learn throughout this whole entire process.
Being part of the admin team was not an easy task either as we had to ensure that everything was running well by checking the feedback form on a regular basis in case anyone had any concerns about the programme. But I was able to meet new people throughout this process and I would say tha this is a step out from my comfort zone and I'm really happy that everything has went well so far.
2019, 2020, 2021
I was selected to take part in the scientific category of Destination Imagination (DI) in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Destination Imagination (DI) is a competition held annually allowing students the opportunity to be creative and merge elements of science and drama components into a performance, based on the given theme.
It was an interesting experience because I have never taken part in such competitions before where you had to do everything from scratch, coming up with the whole storyline, doing up a script and making your own props. It was hard because our ideas had to be creative and they had to fit the theme given to us.
The theme that I thought was the most challenging was "Medical Mystery" in 2019. Since the majority of my team was Secondary 1 students we had little knowledge so we went to search. At first all we could come up with were normal medical problems that did not really stand out. In the end, we settled with the 'Walking Corpse Syndrome' It may not seem like a real illness but it is actually real, where living people have the perception that they are dead.
The process was really fun but tiring at the same time. Making the props from scrap was hard because we had to have the whole idea planned out before we start making it to ensure that we did not have to restart.
Overall, I really enjoyed the experience and through this I was able to learn how to incorporate both the elements of Science and Drama into play.
2021
I had the opportunity to take part in this competition in 2021. My Chemistry teacher put together a small team to take part in this competition.
At first my group members and I were very confused on the details we had to provide because this competition focused on problems in the real world context. In the end, the challenge statement we chose is "Reducing the water footprints of everyday products". This process was really difficult because we were not knowledgeable in this aspect of Science, for example how we should go about reducing the water footprint for our chosen product, Smartphone.
With the help of our teacher and his ex student, we were able to finish our entry for this competition. Even though we did not win a prize, we were very satisfied with our performance because we were able to answer the questions that came along with this challenge statement. This experience was really eye-opening as I realised the things that we are learning now differed quite abit from what is going on in society today.
The LKCMedicine Anatomy Challenge was an eye-opener that helped me to understand what studying medicine was all about. We were given the opportunity to try the ultrasound machine to see how the different chambers of the heart worked. It was a really interesting experience and while we did not make it past into the group segment, I stayed behind to watch the group challenge and it was truly amazing. Given real life situations and having to answer on the spot is something that I am unable to do at the current moment. This opportunity to participate has only strengthened my interest in medicine and into the different specialities within the career itself.
Participating in this webinar was really eye-opening because I got to learn new things about jumping spiders (something I never knew existed). It was interesting to know that jumping spiders can see and respond to ultra-violet (UV) and this is especially important in sexual selection in jumping spiders. This was an overall enriching experience for someone who did not have such great interest in such animals. My main goal in joining this was to find out more about the animal kingdom since I was lacking in the knowledge of such domains.