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What started out as a normal sunny day in NYP, ended with an experience to remember for approximately 100 students involved in Operation SBM. What exactly is Operation SBM? It is an event organized by the SBM Club to educate preschoolers on the importance of cherishing Earth. On 22th July 2015 at 1.30pm, those who signed up for the voluntary event, gathered at the SBM Club room. Everyone was then allocated one of four different groups. Next, Accountancy and Finance student Rebecca Ong, one of the team leaders, passed out the instructions. Volunteers were to wear the free �Angel in Operation� t- shirts being distributed, and the four groups were to converge into two groups. Groups 1 and 4 became one group, while Groups 2 and 3 became another group. Groups 1 and 4 were assigned to clean up designated NYP classrooms, while Groups 2 and 3 were assigned to help preschoolers, from Learning Vision Centre, create and decorate cards dedicated to Mother Nature. Being in Group 3, I could hear my ...

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 ...