Guest Lecture by Mr. Colin Pakshong

Our department was greatly honoured to have Mr. Colin Pakshong deliver his first guest lecture at a polytechnic. Mr. Colin Pakshong is the CEO of TM Asia Life Singapore. TM Asia Life is one of the most dynamic life insurers of Singapore. Mr Colin Pakshong is also a qualified actuary with Institute of Actuaries UK.

He talked about how mathematics is applied in the insurance and actuarial fields.

About 90 students and staff attended the guest lecture.

The department hopes to hold more of such guest lectures in the future.

SIWF 2009 - Street Netball

This year's Singapore International Water Festival (SIWF) on 20 and 21 June 2009 was a joint collaboration between PUB and SP. Ms Department was tasked to work with SAA to host the Street Netball competition event.

A total of 17 Secondary School teams and 8 tertiary teams took part over the 2-day event at Marina Barrage. Under the scorching sun and blistering heat, the teams sweated it out in a bid to become the champion in their own category.

The eventual winners were Kranji Sec and Singapore Polytechnic. MS Dty Director Mr Chuah BK was there to give away the prizes.

From the looks of it, everyone (participants, student helpers, staff helpers) had fun. The sun-burnt skin and tan marks were worth it!

p.s. Lee HT would like to thank the following people for their tremendous help:

Mr Chuah BK, Mr Law KS, Lai SB, Patrick, Nancy, Mr Lai NS, Sharon Xu, Dr Qian, Chia HT, Lim PC, Alice, Sok Noi, Mr Tay KS, Jian Chang