GAHA Orientation 2008
October 5th, 2008
by Christopher Wong
Following the success of the first orientation held last year, the second Gold Award Orientation was recently held at ITE Simei on the 27th September 2008.
The day kicked off with the screening of a GAHA video to more than 100 youths from the latest cohord of Gold Award recipients.
James Soh, the Executive Director of NYAA shared with the youths how the GAHA has contributed significantly to numerous projects and acitivities both locally and internationally and have touched the lives of a diverse group of needy people, young and old. And for each event, GAHA members have came forward to lead, to serve and contribute in diverse ways. Many youths found the presentation engaging and inspiring.
Terrence Chia, the Chairman of GAHA highlighted the objectives, the mission of GAHA and take GAHA as a platform to continue serving beyond Gold. In his presentation, he also introduced the GAHA Exco with special mentions to their involvement.
As soon as the presentation were concluded, the youths broke up into smaller groups with their respective facilitators and after spending some time interacting, the groups were tasked to put their ideas and creativity together to construct their team newspaper tower. Many interesting structures were presented with ideas drawn from Eiffel Tower, The Leaning Tower of Pisa and tripod stand (re-engineered with 4 legs instead of 3). As high as the ceiling goes, Group 10 was the winning team after gaining the judges’ unanimous vote.
The afternoon ended with a group debrief and contacts were exchanged. Through this orientation, GAHA members - new and existing have came to know one another better and forge closer working relationship going forward.
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