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RVRC students hosted Ms Denise Phua (MP for Jalan-Besar GRC), co-founder of Pathlight School and the Mayor of Central Singapore Community Development Council. Ms Phua shared how she transitioned from a corporate career to becoming a full-time volunteer, which then led her to ‘accidentally’ become a politician. Her engaging, personal and inspiring talk centred on…

On the 11th of October, Ridge View Residential College organised a visit to Micron Technology’s Fab 10 semiconductor fabrication plant. Students had the opportunity to tour the compound in order to observe the various automation technologies incorporated into the fabrication process as well as learnt how Micron achieved the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Green…

  Photo credit: Singapore Special Olympics   A group of RVRC students worked in close collaboration with Special Olympics Singapore to organize a swimming competition for  special needs athletes on 28 September at NUS. Organised by RVRC Associate Director of Student Life Mr. Desmond Ng, the event was part of an RVRC Year 2 Forum…

We hosted a visiting delegation from Hong Kong Universities on 30th Sept 2019, keen to learn more about the RVRC integrated living and learning programme. The delegation was welcomed by College Master Prof. Kunle. RVRC staff shared an overview of the College’s unique interdisciplinary and experiential learning pedagogy, as well as residential living. During an…

An NUS student team, with RVRC Senior Eugene Pang and RVRC Alum Joshua Goh, participated in the 13th International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology’s Global Student Innovation Challenge 2019. They designed an eco-friendly ramp to assist wheelchair users in Singapore public housing estates. Their team was awarded the Silver Award in the Technology…

On 18 Sept afternoon, 29 RVRC students participated in a DIV visit to Siloso Beach Resort in Sentosa. Since 2003, the resort has employed many green practices in its building design and customer experience. In the short 90 minutes, Mr Karl Fischer, the resort’s CSR manager, brought the students on a detailed and insightful tour…

On 19 August, 25 RVRC students visited Social Collider on our first industry visit for the year. Social Collider is a collaborative, co-working, and co-innovation community for impact organisations in the heart of Singapore’s tech ecosystem. We were pleasantly hosted by Social Collider’s Founder and CEO, Russ, who shared about the social entrepreneurship scene in…

                        (Photo courtesy of Koh Jin Qi)                     “My goodness, if you think of all the folks in the world who’d give all they’ve got to be out of the racket and in a place…

RVRC with Friends of Chestnut Nature Park planted 110 trees last Saturday. Non-native African Tulips (Spathodea campanulata) have been removed to make space for native tree saplings, that in time to come, would provide habitat and food for our native fauna. More than 60 members of the public joined us and many were new to…

RVRC collaborated with DBS bank in the design of The Race Against Time (see more: https://www.dbs.com/marina-regatta/index.html), a key highlight of Marina Regatta 2019 that will be held in May/June 2019. RVRC helped co-design some of the challenges and set rules for the game. Each challenge informs and reinforces information and actions around Sustainability (E-waste/Single use…