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Success!

Our achievement stories are the most immediate indicators that our efforts at developing potential have paid off.

MOON PEOPLE -
A Musical Toast to Our 15th Anniversary

Sometimes, it only takes providing the necessary ‘stage’ to unleash potential. This was clearly demonstrated when in November 2005, TP’s 15th anniversary celebrations climaxed with the performance of a musical production, Moon People. It featured a totally home-grown cast, crew, music director, director and playwright. The gala event was graced by Education Minister, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam. The same production was later invited by the Musical Theatre Society to make its public debut in March 2006, testifying to its artistic and production merits.

culinary WORLD MASTERS

In this review year, several staff members have proven their innovation and creativity and shown the way to the students they teach. One is a culinary instructor at The Tourism Academy @ Sentosa who brought glory to both TP and Singapore when she led a team of Singapore chefs to a prestigious win at the Igeho Salon Culinaire Mondial in Switzerland in November 2005. The team took home two gold medals in the cold and warm food categories, a trophy for coming in first in the Cold Display category and, as overall champions, won the coveted title of Culinary World Masters. The Salon Culinaire Mondial, which occurs once every six years, is regarded as the most important international culinary arts competition for national teams of chefs. In fact, it is sometimes referred to as the Olympic Games of culinary arts. The Singapore team competed against nine others from Europe and North America and, as the only Asian country represented, made a strong impact on the world cuisine map.

flimmakers TAKES TOP PRIZE

Our students also continued to shine in competitions both in Singapore and abroad. Four students from Temasek Design School emerged winners in the MediaCorp TV12 film competition, Project Pilot. Their short film, titled Flimmakers, and coincidentally about a group of budding filmmakers, clinched the top prize of $3000 and a one year employment contract with MediaCorp for each of them.

CROWBAR AWARDS for upcoming designers

A Temasek Design School student also took centre stage at the annual Crowbar Awards , winning the prestigious Best of Category and the Gold Award for Design Category (Editorial Publication) for her work titled ‘Teri’s Most Beautifuls’. The win was even more significant as this was the first time the competition was open to all tertiary students throughout the world. In addition, our Design School students won nine silver and a bronze award. The Crowbar Awards, organised by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Singapore, is regarded as the region’s premier creative competition for students.

budding engineers SUSTAIN EXCELLENT RUNS

Not to be outdone, engineering students continued their excellent run in competitions such as the Singapore Robotic Games, where they won three gold, four silver and one bronze medal. They also sustained their great performance at the national Odyssey of the Mind, a creative problem-solving competition. In April 2005, TP students were crowned champions of their division for the seventh consecutive time and went on to represent Singapore at the world finals in the USA.

rising to the RETAIL REALITY CHALLENGE

Two teams from Temasek Business School rose to the Retail Reality Challenge organised by the Cold Storage Group in July 2005. Offering winners cash prizes, scholarships and management trainee jobs with Cold Storage, the competition saw 84 teams from local tertiary institutions competing, with the mission to outsell and outsmart their competitors. The real-life retail challenge saw participants judged on their sales performance, inventory management, customer service, teamwork and innovation. The two teams took the first and third positions.

trail-blazing to 1st PLACE

At Ennovation 2005, an event to promote environmental innovations to businesses and the public, TP’s applied science students overcame teams from other universities, polytechnics and the private sector to take first place in the Environmental Trail Blazer competition. Fashioned after popular US reality show ‘The Amazing Race’, the competition saw 320 participants racing around Singapore while experiencing the efforts that go into keeping the island clean and green. Another TP team took second prize in the Enviropreneur Presentation competition, where they pitched their idea of retrieving valuable metal from industrial acid wastes. The event was organised by the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, the National Environmental Agency and the Public Utilities Board.

a clean sweep at THE SPLASH AWARDS

At the Splash Awards – Wireless Jam competition, students from Temasek Information Technology School made almost a clean sweep of all the top prizes. They went up against tough challengers at the competition which required participants to write programs for wireless applications. Organised by the Singapore Computer Society, there were more than 370 entries from the tertiary institutions, working professionals and organisations.

MAKING SPLASHES in sports

Making a splash of a different sort, our students’ dominance in water sports continued in this year. Among others, they won the Overall Team Champion title at the NUS Invitational Lifesaving Championships and the Team Overall title at the RipCurl National Inter Varsity Polytechnic Wakeboarding Championships. The Temasek Dragon Boat Women’s Team emerged champions at the TP Invitational Inter-Polytechnic Race. TP’s emergence in archery was also marked by wins at the NUS Invitational Indoor Archery Championship and the Pesta Sukan National Archery Championship.

a parade of TP's TALENTS

Showing our potential for success on a larger scale, TP contributed significantly to the National Day Parade (NDP) in 2005. We displayed the best of our creative talents, starting with designing the official logo and website. The cheerful “smiley” logo took over five months to develop while the website, which saw more than 10 million hits, was lauded for its high-level of interactivity. The website was not only designed and developed by our students, they also worked on the backend data programming and the mobile and wireless applications. Both the logo and website were unveiled to the nation in April 2005.

Our students also contributed in various other ways such as designing the funpacks that were finally distributed to some 250,000 Singaporeans. TP students also produced a commemorative CD-ROM that incorporated a series of heritage videos titled ‘The Way We Were’. Using rare film footage of Singapore in the 1950s and 60s, the videos, produced by our students, immortalised life in Singapore during that era. While it was an honour to have our staff and student talents recognised by the NDP ’05 Organising Committee, we took away more from the experience in the sheer gratification of contributing to the nation’s celebrations.

challenging our LIMITS

2006 began with a big bang at TP as some 6,000 staff and students came together in an attempt to set a new national and Guinness World Record for the longest cumulative distance run in 24 hours. More importantly, it was an occasion to galvanise the TP team and prove to ourselves what we can achieve if we challenge our limits. At the end of the run, TP set a new Singapore record by running a cumulative distance of 14,023km, smashing the previous record by over five times. A confirmation with Guinness on the world record is still pending. The record was set alongside Dr William Tan, a paralympic wheelchair athlete as he attempted another Guinness world record for hand-cycling around a track in 24 hours. Prior to the event, Dr Tan had set the tone when he delivered a series of inspiring talks to staff and students. The outcome was indeed a remarkable achievement that spoke volumes of what the TP spirit can achieve.

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