29 September 2015
To mark SAP’s 25th anniversary in Singapore, SAP, in collaboration with IDA, launched a Young Thinkers Program, aimed to spark the interest of youths in Infocomm Technology, and to prepare them for an education and career in this exciting arena.
The experiential learning program aims to help youths understand the extraordinary revolution brought about by Big Data today and its impact on societies, businesses and everyday life. Through design thinking workshops, these students will be introduced to an ideation methodology in solving complex problems. Using SAP Lumira Analytics tool, the students gained hands on practical experience to visualise and turn data into useful information.
This program was be delivered jointly by SAP employees and student volunteers of tertiary institutions in Singapore, including 17 of our very own SP DMIT students. Together with the teachers, the volunteers coached the younger students at the Infocomm Clubs at secondary schools and junior colleges in the first half of 2015. This culminated in a boot camp, followed by the competition judging during the Young Tech Fest @ Suntec on the 8th and 9th of September 2015 respectively.
Below, one of our student volunteers, Lance, shares his story.
That’s me, Lance (leftmost, going counter clockwise), my friends from SP, Chee Xiong and Adriel; with our new friends Jessica, SAP University Alliance Manager, Rin and Jamie who are SAP interns from TP and NUS respectively
During December last year, SAP was looking for student volunteer to assist them in their Young Thinker Program (YTP) in preparation for the Young Thinker Challenge which is part of the annual IDA National Infocomm Challenge. Excited to take on new challenges and meet new friends, I accepted this opportunity.
On 5-6 January this year, SAP held its Train-The-Trainer program. During this program, volunteers from the 5 local Polytechnics and 3 Universities, learn about Design Thinking, Big Data and Data Analytics using SAP Lumira. During this two day workshop, I have learnt a lot along with the other volunteers and was prepared to teach the secondary school students. Below are some photos from the session.
Group Photo after Training
After the TTT workshop, our SP student trainers were sent to different schools to teach. The following are some of the on-site sessions conducted by SP student trainers.
- - Yu Ying Secondary School (March 2015)
- Htet Htet Aung (DBIT)
- Chua Yi Fang (DBIT)
- - Bartley Secondary School (May 2015)
- Myself (Lance) (DISM)
- Along with trainers from TP and NUS
In March, SP also conducted an in-house training on 18 March in the Cyber Wargame Centre. We hosted
- 5 Student and 1 Teacher From Yishun Secondary
- 2 Student and 1 Teacher From Temasek Junior College (IP 3 Student)
- And 1 Teacher from YuYing Secondary
- And the trainers were
- Myself, Lance (DISM)
- Chua Yi Zhen (DISM)
- Chin Yi Bing (DISM)
- Samuel Low (DIT)
During this training we taught the student on the use of SAP Lumira and well as the importance of Big Data. After which we gave them a tour around the Cyber Wargame Centre and a brief course introduction about DMIT.
Photos taken during in-house training, provided by SAP from SAP JAM Portal
And with that marks the end of the formal training before the student’s submissions. Following that, a selection process will see 20 teams from different school (Refer to image below) has move on to the semi-finals where 6 will be choose for final and pit off at the Young Tech Fest 2015.
On the 8th of September, the trainers from SP (myself, Chee Xiong and Adriel) NP’s Trainers as well as SAP Interns, help out at the boot camp where teams fine-tune their infographic as well as their presentation. In the end the 6 finalist are from Raffles Institution, NUS High, Sembawang Secondary, Crescent Girls’ School, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ and Temasek Junior College.
Photos From Boot Camp cum Semi-Finals @ Ngee Ann Polytechnic
The next day was the finals held during Young Tech Fest @ Suntec. The SP trainers helped out during the event to facilitate the finals. In the end the winners of the Challenge were:
Raffles Institution
RiTeam
Lim Zinn-E
Victor Loh Wai Kit
NUS High School of Math & Science
5.2 CAP
Daniel Sim
Tee Weile Wayne
Sembawang Secondary School
SMB Team 4
Josef Elijah P.Asis
S.Pranav
Click
here to view SAP Blub and below are some of the photos from the finals
Conclusion
During this 10 month long journey, I have learnt a lot from both SAP, their staff and fellow trainers from other institutions. I have learnt how Big Data can change our lives and how to utilise the tools like SAP Lumira to show important insights. I am also honoured to be certified as SAP Student Ambassador, as SAP is a great company. Also seeing how the secondary students were interested in IT, I felt that it was fulfilling teaching them and will definitely volunteer if there is another chance were to come.
This article was written by Lance Fu Dai Fa, DISM Second Year student, SAP Student Ambassador
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