ITE Youth ECO Ambassador Award 2011 – Results

 

ITE Youth ECO Ambassadors Award is to recognise ITE students who have achieved outstanding contributions and efforts towards environmental sustainability awareness and conservation. Congratulations to the 6 award recipients of the Inaugural ITE Youth ECO Ambassador Award 2011.

Name	NURHAKIM BIN MOHD SHAH
College	ITE College East
School	School of Electronics and Info-Comm Technology
Course	Nitec in Electronics

Hakim is actively involved in environmental projects.  He participated in a number of Environment competition such as the SERO Green Stories Competition by NEA and Tanjong Katong Girls School, Greenwave Environmental Project Competition by Sembawang Shipyard and Young Entrepreneurs’ Skills Competition creating plants on recycled bottle for sales.

Hakim is a green advocates who participated in actively in environmental activities such as the Youth for Environment Day, preparation and launched of recycling bins in ITE College East and as Litter Free Ambassador.  As a Litter Free Ambassador, he contributed his time to regular community patrol in ITE College East campus and at public hotspots in the college’s vicinity.

 

 

Name	KWA KAR HUI KEITH
College	ITE College East
School	School of Electronics and Info-Comm Technology
Course	Nitec in Electronics

Keith’s involvement in environmental activity spanned across different nature with a strike balance of key and supportive appointments. He participated in the ITE International Student Seminar 2011 in Hong Kong with a seminar theme “Environmental Sustainability and Protection”.

Keith is also a group leader of litter free ambassador (LFA) whom leads in the community patrol on a regular basis.  During the Youth for Environment Day, Keith is appointed as a team leader leading 10 LFA and students from MOE schools in the community patrol. He patiently explained to the MOE students the importance of keeping Singapore clean and how to prevent dengue.  He is also a logistics lead in preparation and launched of recycling bins in College East. Keith’s other involvement in Environmental activities includes setting up ECO IT project booth during iDigix event in ITE CE Oct 2010, helping teacher in the collection of the used textbook from class to class and sort out the textbook in a mannerly order.

Name	TAM CHI YU DERECK
College	ITE College West
School	School of Electronics and Info-Comm Technology
Course	Nitec in Electronics

Dereck led a team of students to run the South West CDC Litter free event.  He has also participated in global education through video conference with overseas higher learning institution in the topic of Eco car. Derek has also helped to get his classmates to participate at Youth for the Environment Day and Love the Choa Chu Kang Day. During the Eco week he helped to organised workshop for the students. On top of these, Derek has also led his peers in project such as Tetra Pak School recycling project, Green Schools@ South West 2011 and Green Wave Project by Sembawang Shipyard.

Name	HEDYAZUAN BIN MOHAMED JUMARI
College	ITE College West
School	School of Engineering
Course	Higher Nitec in Mechatronics Engineering

Hedy led a group of 8 students to design and construct an electric vehicle (iTErbo) to take part in the Shell EcoMarathon Asia 2011 to showcase the viability of using creative engineering to create a low carbon emission alternative transportation platform that is able to serve a community in a urban start-stop environment. The team has won 3^rd place in the competition category and was awarded overall 3^rd place in safety award at the Shell Eco Marathon Asia 2011 held in Sepang, Malaysia, July 2011. Hedy is the winner for the outreach program implemented by iTErbo team – in spreading environment awareness message through the conventional and new social media platform by Shell Singapore. In additional, Hedy volunteered himself to train a new batch of students on electric vehicle related topics.

Name	NEO CHEE HUI
College	ITE College Central ( Bishan )
School	School of Business Studies & Services
Course	Higher Nitec in Accounting

Chee Hui is the main organiser during Youth for Environment Day, he organised a beach clean up. He also led the MOE schools students during the clean up. He is also the main organising committee in Enviro-Cyclthon, a committee promoting a greener way of travelling by cycling around. Chee Hui volunteered in the Grains of Hope project where he delivers food to the elderly by bicycle. Currently, he is involved in selecting and improving the designs of lift door stickers for the Ang Mio Kio – Hougang Constituency. The purpose of these stickers is to spread environmental message to the residents.

Name	MIKAIL RIDUAN SHAH BIN ADENAN
College	ITE College Central ( MacPherson )
School	School of Engineering
Course	Nitec in Mechanical Technology

Mikial Riduan is the President of ECO Club in his college. He is the main organiser in Youth for Environment Day leading 20 ECO members to visit the Envision Gallery Highlights and Climate Change Exhibition at Science Centre Singapore. Mikial Riduan has also set up a booth to promote environmental awareness at Community Center Roadshow for Jan and Apr intake students. He also led 24 ECO club members to attend the ITE ECO conference,. Mikial Riduan has also organised environmental related exhibition and talk for the students in MacPherson campus.

Education Trip to Pulau Semakau

Pulau Semakau is Singapore’s landfill which is opened only to organised groups such as schools and tertiary institutions upon booking approval. It is also an beautiful offshore island where participants could have a day to relax their mind and enjoy the scenery.

ECO@CE would like to invite CE staff for an experimental learning journey to Pulau Semakau. This learning journey is part of the ECO@CE activities on Environmental Studies. Through this learning journey, participants will be made aware of the problems and constraints which Singapore faces in the management of our solid waste thus learning and understanding the importance of a well managed waste disposal system in maintaining a clean city state in the development of an efficient waste disposal system, and the measures needed to meet future challenges.

In additional, participants are also able to see how refuse is weighed and discharged mechanically, how it is incinerated and how waste gases are cleaned before being released into the environment to prevent air pollution and how heat from the combustion of refuse is used to generate electricity and how scrap metal is extracted for the recycling at the steel mills.

( Reservations will be on first come first-serve basis and limited to the first 80 staff. )

Date : 18 Nov 2011, Friday

Time : 1230 – 1730 hr

Please accept this invite to register, a confirmation note will be sent to you after registering. Please note that you have to find your own replacement if you are not able to make it after registering.

ITE Youth ECO Ambassador Award 2011

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overview

The ITE Youth ECO Ambassador Award, organized by ECO@CE, aims to recognise the efforts, contributions and commitment of ITE students towards environmental awareness and conservation.

Under ITE’s environmental initiative, students develop their environmental awareness through their learning journey engaged via environmental related project and activities. These activities and projects are key in a holistic development environment.

Flowchart of ITE Youth ECO Ambassador Award

   

 

 

 

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Scope & Eligibility

All efforts made by any student in protecting, promoting and enhancing environmental awareness and conservation over the past two years (2010 – 2011) would be taken into account for the selection of the awards.   

The Award is open to all students from ITE.

The 2 best nominations from each college will receive the award.

ITE Staff to nominate the students for the award.

Judging Criteria for Nomination

1. Nominee should list and give evidence of their participation or involvement in the following area:

• Participated in environment programmes that result in a sustained positive impact on the environment.
• Good conduct and habit that contribute to clean and green environment.
• Contributed to the environmental well-being of the community.
• ECO initiatives and events.

 2. All Nominees must email the nomination form to ce_eco@ite.edu.sg by 31 August 2011.

3. Judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entertained.

4. Winners will be invited to attend the award ceremony at the ECO Carnival on 7 October 2011 held at ITE College East.

 

Rules and Regulations:

1. Awards are not exchangeable, transferable or redeemable for cash.

2. The organiser reserves the rights to change or alter the prizes offered.

3. Without prejudice to any other provisions of the guidelines, the Organiser reserves the right to disqualify the participant for failure to abide by any of the guidelines set out herein, or for submitting false, inaccurate or incomplete information, or for any other reasonable cause, without first informing the participant and without being liable in any way whatsoever for any loss, expense, cost or damages suffered or incurred in connection with the award or resulting from such disqualification.

4. Submission of entries signifies the acceptance of the guidelines of this award.

Enquiries

For enquiries, please email to ce_eco@ite.edu.sg

World Environment Day

Eco Music Challenge Season 2 is now on!

Launch of Recycle bins for bottles and cans in CE

The recycle bins are implemented campus wide on 5 April 2011. These bins are for students and staff to dispose their empty cans or plastic bottles. The recycle bins are in eco-friendly green colour and it is decorated with the ECO mascot, Vivo Green, holding bottles and cans.

Let’s do our part and keep College East a clean and green campus.

 

Recycle bins in eco-friendly green colour

Student volunteers from ECO club preparing the launch of recycle bins

 

 Recycle bins in campus

CE Staff Commendation Award 2011 ( Greening @ CE )

Congratulations to the ECO ambassadors who have received the College East (CE) Staff Commendation Award 2011. The Commendation Award is presented to the team for excellent teamwork in organising the Greening @ CE event to launch the ECO framework for environmental sustainability.

The Staff Commendation Award Scheme gives recognition to CE staff who had made special contributions or improvement beyond their own area of work, i.e. creating value to self and others in the areas of promoting College Positioning- enhancing the overall image of the college to our stakeholders and customers; Promoting Innovation & Enterprise- a strength and niche area of the College and living ITE Care – positive values when discharging work responsibilities and beyond.

           from left to right: Beng Choo, Saadiah, Alex, William, Ainah, Rain, Ronnie, Eden Liew (P/CE)

Litter Free Ambassadors in Action!

Over 50 Litter Free Ambassadors (LFA) from ITE College East, donned the eco-friendly colours of green and white, to patrol the grounds of the College from 11.30am – 12.30pm on 15 March 2011, all in the name of kicking off the National Environment Agency (NEA)’s new anti-litter campaign – “Do the Right Thing. Let’s Bin It!”

The purpose of the campaign was to instill a sense of responsibility in individuals to keep Singapore clean and green and to encourage them to take action to bin their litter. Training was also conducted by professionals engaged by NEA to help all LFAs assimilate their roles and responsibilities, conduct themselves well, teach them the know-hows of engaging the public and techniques in handling angry and rude public.

In line with the campaign, the Litter Free Ambassadors (LFA) from ITE College East assumed their roles dutifully and were assigned to patrol littering hotspots within the campus. They also helped advocate good habits of waste disposal (by offering souvenirs to those who practiced good anti-littering habits) and gave proper advice to fellow students and members of public who littered…so WATCH OUT litterbugs!

Vivo Green our ECO @CE Mascot

Vivo Green’s birthday falls on the 13^th July 2010. She represents the commitment of College East (CE) to the environmental. The five leaves on her represent the 4 schools and the College Services division in CE, ie CE’s commitment towards environmental care as one entity.

• School of Electronics & Info-comm Technology (green)
• School of Applied & Health Sciences (maroon)
• School of Engineering (orange)
• School of Business (yellow)
• College Services Division (blue)

Vivo Green will consistently remind the staff and students in CE to live Green.  Her favourite slogan with her signature hand sign is “We love the Earth”.

You can see her in various styles when she is performing different roles as follows:

Sometimes you will be able to spot her pictures on the bins. She is there to spark staff and students to use the bins for recycling. 

Join your hands together with Vivo Green, pledge your care for our earth now!

Come on people, follow Vivo Green’s hand sign and say “We love the Earth!”

Litter Free Ambassadors At Work

LFAs in ACTION @CE 29 Oct 2010

A group of trained Litter Free Ambassadors(LFA) went on a patrol in our own CE campus on 29 Oct 2010. They are stationed at hotspots in our college to advocate good habits of waste disposal (by offering a souvenir) and to give proper advice to students who litter.

LFAs in ACTION @CE 29 Oct 2010

Short briefing for the LFAs before actual patrol. Everyone geared up all ready to start!	Good job!! Thank you for not littering!
LFAs in ACTION @CE  29 Oct 2010
LFA caught in action!	LFA stationed at the bus-stop “Good job sir! This is a souvenir for you!”
LFA rewarding the student outside co-op shop!	Wow! LFA picking up the litter and showing good example!

Responses from our LFAs after the patrol:

Daniel- LFA from Sch of EIT : “Everyone is very co-operative.”

Arif- LFA from Sch of AHS: “I think that this campaign is very meaningful!”

Jeffrey- LFA from Sch of ENGG: “I feel that we should have more of these patrols to       create awareness!”

Jeffreydin- LFA from Sch of EIT: “I feel that this campaign is very interesting!”

Happenings:

There will be more of such patrols by our LFAs in the campus as well as out of campus!

They will be stationed at hotspots in our college as well as in areas around our college to advocate good habits of waste disposal (by offering a souvenir) and to give proper advice to students and public who litter.

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