Jerome Yap � Passion Trumps All
British politician Sir Winston Churchill once said: �Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.� You may think Jerome Yap�s route to success was smooth; he graduated from NYP this year with 3 awards - the inaugural Lee Hsien Loong Award, Infinite Frameworks Gold Medallist Award and Infinite Frameworks Outstanding Project Work Award. Contrary to expectations, he comes from a humble beginning, with little motivation to excel in studies in his childhood. He was only interested in drawing during classes, and thus only scored 98 for his Primary School Leaving Examinations. On top of that, he mixed with the wrong crowd in Secondary School, which led to him performing poorly during his GCE N Levels. Jerome�s only option was to enrol in the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) for his Nitec and Higher Nitec studies respectively. But it was in ITE that Jerome found like-minded friends that shared his passion for design. Through the...