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Celebrating the Class of 2019!
Text by Melissa Wang | Image by Samuel He for Yale-NUS College
After an exciting two-week Orientation programme, which included the Amazing Race and RCX trips to regional countries to build a sense of community, the Class of 2019 was officially welcomed to Yale-NUS College at the annual First Year Assembly on 6 August 2015.
SingapOrientation: Bringing the Class of 2019 into Yale-NUS
Not every college has a two-week long orientation programme, but at Yale-NUS College, orientation is seen as a critical part of welcoming our students and helping them integrate into College life.
Two Yale-NUS students are part of the core team at Social Development Initiative (SDI) Academy, a youth-run social enterprise that runs English classes for migrant workers.
A 44-day journey through the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal
Ami Firdaus (Class of 2017), Jack Goh Si Yuan (Class of 2018) and their friend, Woan Lin, travelled the famous Annapurna Circuit in Nepal over the summer break.
The Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative (YSEALI)
In mid-2015, two Yale-NUS students, Sheryl Foo and Jeffrey Tong (Classes of 2017 & 2018) were the only two academic fellows in a contingent of 200 participants from the ASEAN region who participated in YSEALI.
Analysing real-world issues through a CNA documentary
Last year, students in the Quantitative Reasoning (QR) class were tasked to use the skills they learnt to analyse a Channel NewsAsia documentary, It Figures.
Soh Wee Yang (Class of 2017) is the inaugural recipient of the study award, made possible with the generosity of the Wu Hsioh Kwang Family. The study award was established to provide for needy students at Yale-NUS.
