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Articles from Zhaobo and the NEWPAPER on the Bayer Young Environmental Envoys Awards and National Climate Change Competition are attached for your reading pleasure.. If anyone of you is inspired and want to try for some upcoming awards or competitions, come and have a chat with the Course Manager,the EO advisors or any of your CER lecturers..

National Climate Change Competition 2011

Standby Energy Saver, a prototype developed by a group of four CER students, Chen Zhangxiang, Joanna Chew Yujiao, Sandra Elizabeth Lee and Tam Zhi Cong, won the Third Prize, $1000, in the University/Polytechnic category of the National Climate Change Competition 2011. The competition is about coming up with a proposal and prototype to promote the awareness of climate change among students and to involve students in caring for the environment by showing how individual actions can affect the climate and the environment. Beginning in June 2011, the students were subjected through 3 rounds of assessments by renowned judges from both public and private sectors. The competition was organized by the National Climate Change Secretariat under the Prime Minister Office. Congratulations to Zen, Joanna, Sandra and Zhi Cong..

Best Four Bayer Young Environmental Envoy Award 2011

Lim Yu Ke, the past subcommittee member of Energy Oasis, the CER Student Club, was accorded as one of the twelve Bayer Young Environmental Envoy 2011. Being the Bayer Young Environmental Envoy, he had designed, built and implemented his proposed environmental project. the Solar Driven Neighborhood Compost Tumbler at Kampung Senang, the organic farm located at Tampines. The project enables Kampung Senang to recycle the solid waste from their farm and the nearby BEST Supermarket into useful compost in a sustainable way. On 16 September 2011, after completion of the environmental project and undergone a judging interview, he received an award plaque at a formal awarding ceremony at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Singapore from the Guest of Honour, Dr Amy Khor. In addition, he was also accorded as one of the Best Four Bayer Young Environmental Envoy envoys, adjudged to have the best environmental projects and will join their counterparts from across four continents in an all-expense paid educational trip to Germany on October 15-22, 2011. Congratulation to Yu Ke!

EO Sports Day @ TP

On 12 Aug 2011, Energy Oasis organised and held a sports event, the EO Sports Day, at Tembusu Grove in the school grounds. It was mainly organized to encourage team building between classmates, bonding among CER year 1 and year 2 students and for everyone to have fun. The sports event consists of 2 categories namely Soccer and Captain's ball. About 80 students supported the event and EVEN LECTURERS were invited to have a match. The event started at around 3pm at ended at around 5pm, though it was a short 2 hours event it was a memorable day where the competitors sweat and have fun on the field.

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Study Trip to Neste Oil Plant

On Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011, after classes and accompanied by lecturers, some year 2 and year 3 CER students visited Neste Oil Plant in Tuas. From the talk by the person-in-charge, we were introduced to the production, raw materials, uses, advantages to biodiesel that they are producing and many more interesting information. Although we could not tour the production plant due to safety issues, we managed to view the massive structures from afar before leaving. Overall, such visits brings reality to our course and subject and is an eyeopener to all of us.

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World Leadership Conference

From 13^th to 15^th July 2011, a group of students from Clean Energy participated in the World Leadership Conference 2011. A build up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit, the World Leadership Conference is the platform for young environmental leaders to turn their passions in environmental into actions. It is also a platform for like-minded youths from all over Asia Pacific to come together to learn, voice out and take action to move towards a green sustainable future for planet Earth. The three days workshops and seminars have allowed us to gain more knowledge about climate change. We have also managed to make new friends and exchanged ideas and views about saving the Earth. Overall, it was a great experience!

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(TP newspaper: Stop Press October 2011 edition)