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If you are new to NYP, you�ll be pleased to know that we have plenty of signboards and friendly staff and students to help you find your way around Campus. But if you want to navigate around campus like a pro, check out iGoNYP. While iGoNYP is not a new app, its latest version incorporates all of the  new  facilities under NYP Campus expansion programme.  For our existing students, this app is also handy when looking for newly constructed buildings, facilities and eating places. Navigate iGoNYP uses your mobile data and GPS to help you navigate around NYP. To get directions, select your destination in the menu and a pin will drop on your current location and your destination. It�s a great way to find amenities like eateries, printing shops, carparks and sports and recreation facilities. There�s also as Augmented Realty view that helps you get your bearing - great if you can�t read a map, or get lost easily. Awesome Facilities and Amenities for you to Discover Aside from ...

The holidays are over, and it is the start of a new semester. Being students, we have mixed feelings about the start of school. Some may be elated at the thought of meeting our old friends or getting to know new people, while some may face anxiety due to tougher academic demands as they become seniors.  For us Social Work students, we were told that our timetable was to be suspended on the 1st day of school and all students were to report to LTK2 for a �combined group lesson� in the afternoon. All of us did not know what was in store for us. Following our course manager�s instruction, we thought that it would be another boring lecture to sit through.  what�s going to happen? With a simple game of changing seats, we were seated with a student from a different cohort each on our left and right. Thus, we started to introduce ourselves to our course seniors and juniors seated around us.  Our lecturers had specially planned the day�s activities to allow us to start the semeste...

One of the many contributions of the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew was to turn Singapore into a city in a garden. And as a tribute to Singapore�s Founding Prime Minister, NYP held a Tree Planting Ceremony on the 27th of March. I volunteered to help out as a Student Facilitator. The Tree Planting Ceremony The Tree Planting Ceremony was a joint event organised by the National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA) Students� Club and Geo Council. The presidents of both clubs, Lim Pei Shan from NYAA Students� Club and Cheryl Lee from Geo Council decided to organise the event to continue the late Mr Lee�s vision of a City in a Garden. The ceremony was also a way to commemorate the Tree Planting project that Mr Lee introduced in the 1960s in his Tanjong Pagar ward, to turn Singapore into a clean and green Nation, a ceremony which he attended every year since then. Through this activity, every participant had the opportunity to learn about Mr Lee�s efforts in greening Singapore. The Day Before Instructions gi...

On the 16th of March, Nanyang Polytechnic�s School of Information Technology (NYP SIT) held a SAP Lumira training workshop for secondary school students. The software is created by the German technology conglomerate, SAP, and enables users to present data in a fun and visually appealing manner. I volunteered as a Student Helper and also had the opportunity to learn more about the software. What is SAP Lumira? SAP Lumira organises regular data from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (or from a database) and converts it into an easy to understand and visually appealing format. The example infographic on the left looks as if it was created by a professional designer on Photoshop but in reality, it was created using SAP Lumira. With drag and drop tools, SAP Lumira makes it easy to present lots of numbers and data without boring people. It is suitable for school projects and presentations, and free (Personal Edition) but there are full featured-paid versions as well. What is the SAP Young Thinke...

My life as an emcee in NYP is an interesting one indeed. We, the members of the club, meet up regularly to plan for upcoming events, have lunch together as a team, and decide how to work together to improve our club. We also dine with our friends from other clubs, which results in us forming close, unshakable bonds. It is this habit that has helped the club grow and I�m proud to be a member of the Emcee Club. The Emcee Club started in 2009 with just 30 members and since then, our membership has grown to 58 members, especially when interest in public speaking increased. The Club hosts events such as the yearly NYP Open House and Club Crawl, and helps other clubs with their hosting needs. It has hosted various NYP concerts and events.  The Club�s first major gig was hosting the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in NYP. We also had the opportunity to work with two world class establishments - Gardens by the Bay, and Esplanade - in the past two years. The Club also has experience in stage manag...

After 3 months of intense preparation, 52 Year 2 Diploma in Social Sciences (Social Work) students, including myself, finally staged our first musical production: The Prison Within, as part of our Communication & Public Education module! The musical, a collaboration between NYP and CARE Network�s Yellow Ribbon Project, aimed to promote greater public support for the rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-offenders into our society.  The Prison Within was a musical drama specially crafted to raise awareness of not only the trauma and stigma an ex-offender has to live with, but also focused on what the families of ex-offenders go through; as well as how an individual�s incarceration can affect the communication and dynamics within a family, and even outside the family. To stage this production successfully, we had to learn the ropes of stage performance from our dedicated team of professionals from the arts scene: Peggy Ferroa (director), Cathy Kee (assistant director and choreo...