Ace Your Scholarship Interview
     
 

We know how nerve wrecking an interview session can be. So here’s a list of likely questions that will be raised that will help you better prepare your answers and make you appear more confident. We don’t want to be surprised and stumped for answers, do we?

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Should I apply for a scholarship?
     
 

Scholarships are awards given to deserving and outstanding students who require financial aid to pursue further education. They usually have different criteria depending on the organisation that offers the award. Scholarships can come from various channels like the government, universities, huge corporations and even the smaller organisations too.

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No more school! What now?
     
 

Panic? Well, don’t! You can see graduation as the greatest relief or a terrifying beginning. To get out of the routine of going to class and studying, now’s the time to apply what you have learnt in real-life situations. If you have trouble securing a job immediately though, the most recommended option for you right now is to score an internship.

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Silicon Valley Odyssey
     
 

The name Silicon Valley came about when the region in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Are in Northern California used to house large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers. Today, the name is synonymous with America’s high-tech sector. Intel, eBay, Apple Inc, Symantec and Yahoo! are some of the familiar names that are located in Silicon Valley!
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New Year Tech Resolution for 2012
     
 

We are days away from belting out Auld Lang Syne at the stroke of midnight. As most people will start making resolution list, we, the superheroes, are busy listing out tech products we can look forward to in 2012. Let me share our top 5 anticipated tech products in 2012!
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Visit to Google office in Singapore
     
 

It was an exciting day for 70 students from the various IHLs as they were invited to an exclusive “students” only event specially organised by the Google Devfest team who was in town. It was truly an inspiring experience for the students as the Google developers shared interesting anecdotes about working at Google. We are proud to present our guest blogger for the event; Miss Dora Chua, Lecturer from Singapore Polytechnic’s School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology.
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HP Labs Teachers Learning Journey
     
 

As part of Infocomm@Work, we organized the Inaugural Teacher’s Learning Journey to HP Labs! Teachers became students as they were treated to a “school excursion” at HP Labs! Six secondary school teachers took time from their busy schedules shaping young minds to attend this interesting and informative talk by HP representatives.

HP Labs is the global exploratory and advanced research group for Hewlett-Packard (HP), an American multinational information technology corporation. HP labs is segmented into 2 two different labs, namely The Service Platform Lab and The Applied Cloud Computing Lab. The former seeks to advance cloud computing through exploratory and in-depth research while the latter applies the new research to real-world situation.

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Meet the NICA 2011 Winners
     
 

Rosyth Primary School (Primary Category)
They may be young but I bet they know more about cyber wellness than most adults out there! But fret not, they are out to educate the masses with their e-Book called CyberHeroes! Let’s get to know the team behind the winning project!


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Youth Infocomm Day 2011: Event coverage
     
 

If I can describe 2011’s Youth Infocomm Day in one word, it will be with the word ‘FUN’ (all in caps)! Stepping into the event venue, I was greeted by life size standees of myself and my fellow superheroes (which looked good if I could say so myself)!

The next thing I noticed was the students buzzing around. Everyone was moving from booth to booth, checking out the various projects done by the various schools to decide whom to cast their votes for the National Infocomm Club Awards 2011 (NICA 2011).

Kicking off the programme proper, Ms Grace Fu, Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts, spoke to the crowd of almost 500 students and teachers, encouraging everyone to continue developing their talent in infocomm. Ms Fu also launched the “Can’t Live Without Tech” contest.


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Infocomm Champions
     
 

This month we caught up with Mr Joseph Tan, teacher-in-charge of the Infocomm Club at Hwa Chong Institution, who had led his team to win many accolades. Joseph also shares his experience travelling to Silicon Valley with this students on the National Infocomm Competition knowledge acquisition trip in 2011 and also an interesting hobby of his which few know about. Can you guess what is it? Read the full interview here!

 
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