Posts by Hafsah Begum
RVRC Lets Talk
August – November 2023 Let’s Talk dialogues invite experts from different industries to share both their life and work experiences with RVRC students, with the objective of helping them to grow and develop beyond the classroom. The semester began with a talk by Mr. Victor Zhu, an RVRC Alumnus who founded Hatch, a social enterprise…
Read MoreRVRC attends The Earthshot Prize 2023
Selected RVRC students had the exclusive opportunity to attend The Earthshot Prize 2023 Awards Ceremony on 7th Nov 2023. Founded by Prince William, @earthshotprize is a prestigious global environmental prize for climate solutions, where 5 winners are awarded £1 million to scale up their solutions to enable communities, oceans, and biodiversity to continue thriving in ecological…
Read MoreRVRC Industry Visits
August – October 2023 Industry visits bring RVRC students to learn about real-world developments on sustainability and workplace readiness. This semester, RVRC visited Golden Cap Farm, a startup growing gourmet mushrooms, on 28 August. Participants learnt how mushrooms contribute to Singapore’s food security and witnessed the process of cultivating mushrooms in a controlled environment. They…
Read MoreHalloween @RVRC Houses
CSC’s Events & Welfare Committee organized a week packed with endless Halloween activities! RVRC residents got to experience eerie haunted houses each with a unique scare factor, spooky movie screenings, photobooths, exciting games and sweet treats. A shoutout to the different house committees for transforming and decorating the BOO-tiful lounges! Hope everyone had a spook-tacular…
Read MoreNUS Achievement Awards 2023
RVRC wins at the NUS Achievement Awards 2023 NUS held its annual NUS Achievement Awards Ceremony: : Celebrating Campus Vibrancy Excellence, previously known as the Student Life Awards, on 28 October 2023. This year, RVRC received the Campus Vibrancy Award for organising the Inter-College Games that took place earlier this year. Timothy Wee, the CSC…
Read MoreResidential College Scholarships 2023
The College celebrated the achievements of 17 RVRC students who received the NUS Residential College Scholarships! 🎉 These scholarships have been awarded to students for their outstanding academic performance. Several proud parents and students’ families were in attendance for the event, in addition to Fellows and Resident Fellows, where scholarships were awarded by College Master…
Read MoreSundown Party: RVRC’s Annual Welcome Dinner 2023
RVRC hosted its annual welcome dinner at the end of August. It was a key milestone for the college as the event was planned by RVRC’s Student Leaders with the aim of hosting more than 600 residents together, for the first time ever. RVRCians traded in their t-shirts for elegant evening dresses & linen wear…
Read MoreRVN2001 Project: Rewilding Yishun Park
As part of the RVN2001: The Great Extinction: conservation and rewilding course’s final project, Dan Soh Yong Xian, Lo Mei Hui, Yeoh Jun Ting, Sarah Heng Chin Yee, and Brian Chow Wei Xuan proposed a rewilding plan for an under-utilised site in Yishun Park. Initially, the team members were convinced that NParks would ignore their…
Read MoreRVRC’s 8th CSC takes charge
A renewed student leadership for the college, led by Basil Tan Song Sze, took charge with a dedicated team of talented students and presented their vision to the RVRC College Master and Fellows. They aim to ‘improve RVRC’s Student Life through engaging and meaningful activities for all residents, and to promote better connections and collaborations…
Read MoreRVRC Student Leaders Training
105 RVRC Student Leaders participated in a customized training programme at the college. The primary objective of the training designed and led by Mr. Desmond Ng and A/P Peace Wong Yuh Ju, conducted across two days on 10th and 11th August, was to cultivate self-awareness among the student leaders, to enhance their ability to collaborate…
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