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With so many CCAs to choose from, it is certainly hard to decide which CCA you should commit to. But NYP is a warm hearted community, and whichever CCA you join, you are certain to make good friends. If you can�t decide, here are nine interesting CCAs to check out! Nanyang Polytechnic Chinese Orchestra  Two words � Mike Chiang. This talented conductor (formerly with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra) is the driving force behind Nanyang Polytechnic Chinese Orchestra�s (NYPCO) breath-taking, genre-breaking music. For the past 3 years, Nanyang Polytechnic Chinese Orchestra (NYPCO) has staged 4 consecutive sold-out Korean pop and pop music concerts - Theatres on the Bay, K-Attack!, K-Attack! II, K-Attack! III, and Billboard Rockx! - in collaboration with Esplanade, with Mike Chiang at the helm. The orchestra is amazingly versatile at all genres, including K-Pop and Rock, and has even been tweeted about by a member of K-pop band, Big Bang. NYPCO has a unique rendition of modern music played w

For �N� Level graduates who can�t wait to commence on your tertiary education, here�s how Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) lets you get a head start. Gideon Patrick Manik The Nanyang Polytechnic Foundation Programme (NYPFP) allows Secondary 4 Normal (Academic) students to enter NYP a year ahead of their peers. Students under this programme will go through a year of preparation and will secure a spot for themselves in their diploma of choice when they have passed all the modules. Students, Gideon Patrick Manik and Koh Liang Jing, talk about why they chose the NYPFP. For Gideon Patrick Manik, learning more about business operations and setting up his own business has always been his goal. Getting into the Diploma in Engineering with Business allows him to study multi-disciplinary subjects, including the application of business skills to engineering processes. �I was encouraged to join the NYPFP as I would be able to secure a spot in NYP rather than have to compete with all the �O� Level graduat

As an avid swimmer, Tan Jian Yong, alumnus of NYP�s School of Engineering, was part of the Lifeguard Corps in NYP where he met swimming instructors and learnt about swim coaching and related skills. After he was certified as a swimming instructor, Jian Yong started giving private swimming lessons but faced problems with students cancelling classes at the last minute and defaulting on payments, both of which affected his schedule and income. That was when the idea for Happy Fish Swim School came up. In order to solve the problems that he and many other freelance instructors faced, Jian Yong started a website linking swimming instructors with students. It offered many value-added services such as verification of instructors� credentials, payment collection, student matching for instructors with location preference and class rescheduling. Not only did he relieve his fellow instructors of their problems, he also made his first million at the young age of 24. Sharing his key to success, he

Having been in the ornamental fish business at the tender age of 14, entrepreneurship was nothing new to Barnabas Huang, alumnus of NYP�s School of Business Management and now Managing Director of NutriFirst Pte Ltd, but after working in the industry for three years, he realised it wasn�t his true calling so he decided to change his career path. Back when he was a second year Business Management student in NYP, Barnabas met his gym trainer who was selling sports supplements. He seized the opportunity to buy over his sports nutrition business when his gym trainer decided to concentrate on his other business ventures. With $3,800 worth of stock that Barnabas acquired from his gym trainer, NutriFirst.net was born. While studying for his diploma in NYP, he took on many modules like Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Statistics and Finance which helped sharpen his vision and hone his analytical skills. Barnabas also underwent work attachments over a span of nine months, on-campus as well as with

Juggling with busy school life and a burgeoning interest in running, Nabin Parajuli, a Year 3 student in Diploma in Hospitality & Tourism Management, School of Business Management, explores his path beyond to fulfil his full potential. Nabin is an anomaly in the world of sports. A librarian in secondary school, his talent for running was accidentally discovered when he joined the first race in his life, in NYP, and came in fourth place. His coach, Mr Tho Yow Kin, said that it was rare for someone without any running experience to finish so close to the Athletic team members, who had been training consistently. Initially refusing to train regularly, Nabin changed his mind after taking part in the Institute-Varsity Polytechnic (IVP) Games. �Representing the school gave me a sense of pride and motivated me to train hard.� Nabin also revealed his other motivation, �I like the NYP Athletic Team�s t-shirt (laughs).� In the short space of two years, Nabin has come a long way. Not only has

 Back in secondary school, I remember knocking on doors to collect newspapers, picking up beach litter and doing some spring cleaning in school classrooms. I did it mainly because I needed to obtain a certain amount of CIP (Community Involvement Project) points each year. However, I came to realise that community service projects are not just about points, it�s about giving back to the community. Recently, I was invited by NYP Mentoring Club for their elderly befriending event called �Love Navigator�. Here are some highlights of the event. What is Love Navigator?   Love Navigator is the result of a collaboration between Mentoring Club, NYP Community Service Club and the Woodlands Pacific Healthcare Activity Centre, with students from Yishun Secondary School (YSS) also participating in this event. It aims to get students to befriend the elderly from the Woodlands Pacific Healthcare Activity Centre. What is NYP Mentoring Club? The NYP Mentoring Club is a CCA that allows NYP students to m

What�s next after acquiring a diploma? Evangeline Neo, NYP�s School of Interactive & Digital Media alumna, shares her current pursuit and unquenchable thirst for success. Following her passion took Evangeline, a local comic artist, all over the world; where her exposure to different cultures became her source of inspiration. Having built a strong foundation in both traditional methods and digital media, and the vast exposure to design softwares during her Diploma in Digital Media Design course at NYP; Evangeline found it easy adapting to any software. �I could pick up �Manga Studio�, a comic programme by myself!� Despite her travels, Evangeline remained rooted to NYP. After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts under an MDA scholarship at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, she returned to her alma mater as a lecturer. �While teaching, I realised that our local comic industry hadn�t grown since I left. I became determined to obtain a scholarship to study in Japan to see