Now, I am
very proud to be a member of this EHIG. We decided to take part in
"Security Awareness for Everyone(SAFE) 2014" competition in
association with Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA) for the very first time from our
IG.
So, it was last year that we submitted a proposal about the Electronics
Signboard. Of course, there were a lot of categories to choose for the
competition but our IG is Electronics Hobby IG so we chose something that is
related to Electronics. Our proposal was quite simple and we did not even
expect to be nominated. Surprisingly, after a few months later, we have been
emailed that we were selected for the competition and had been assigned a
mentor named "Mr.Kenneth" from Singapore Police Force! WoW! That was
the time that we have been pumped up and we have worked on it pretty seriously.
Even we had a semester break for one and a half month, some of our committee
members went back to their respective countries like China, Myanmar, for only
about 14 days and the rest of their holidays were spent in RP lab to thrive for
the competition. Our advisor, Mr.Caleb, and our mentor, Mr.Kenneth gave us a
lot of advices and ideas for the project. Then, by the first week of October
2014, we were able to finish our project or prototype with a sleek design for
the competition.
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Our EHIG members working hard for SAFE Competition |
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Us with a finished prototype |
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With Advisor Caleb (on the Left) and Mentor Kenneth (on the Right) |
And on 24th October, we had to go to MHA as a team to present
our project "RP Electronic Signboard". This is the biggest project
that we have ever made together and we have spent one month plus holiday all for that. So, all of us were really nervous and scared at the same time to present
as there were a lot of other teams from various schools who were presenting like
us. But the presentation went quite well and we saw the smiles and curiosity on
some of the faces of the judges.
After that day, all of us were waiting for the
announcement with anxiety in our minds. Just a moment ago in December last year,
we have been chosen in top 5 and two of our members were invited to the award
ceremony on 8th January 2015. We couldn't even imagine that this was really
happening! And guess what, we won Silver Award for this MHA competition
representing RP! We achieved the award directly from the hands of Guest-of-
Honour, Mr S Iswaran, Minister, Prime Minister’s Office and Second
Minister for Home Affairs and Trade & Industry during MHA Excel Fest
Exhibition on 8th January 2015.
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Minister Mr S Iswaran (on the Left) and EHIG committee May Myo Myint Myat (on the Right) |
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Our Booth at MHA Fest |
That was really awesome job that we did
together and our hard work truly paid off! This is a really splendid experience
we have ever got all because of being in this EHIG and a big thanks to all
supporting us since from the beginning especially Mr.Caleb, Mr.Kenneth and our
lab tech, Mr.Simon. :')
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