Third week part 2

Day 14 & 15 Thursday and Friday
June 18 & 19, 2009

The trip to Bintan Island Indonesia was one of our highlights. If location, as they say, is everything, then sitting at the economic hub of Asia is a precious pearl. The largest and most significant island in the Riau Archipelago of Indonesia, Bintan is a mere 45 kilometers from Singapore. Eighty international carriers fly into Singapore’s Changi Airport with access to 50 countries and over 180 cities in the world. A growing population of 2 billion people is lives within 7-hours of flying time to Singapore, and Bintan is just 55-minutes away by ferry from Singapore. Along its 103-km northern coastline of Bintan Island lies Bintan Resorts. Here, you will find endless beaches, secluded coves, lush greenery, azure waters and year-round sunshine. Unprecedented in its size and scale of development, Bintan Resorts is by far the single largest master planned resort development in Asia.
With the metropolitan Singapore so close by, shopping, entertainment and urban commercialism are easily accessible. Therefore, as they say you can have the best of two worlds on a visit to Bintan Resorts – the city and the resort.

Day 16, Saturday
June 20, 2009

Today we met the Australian delegation from Box hill institute. All of us participants had a briefing regarding the upcoming convention. We all received detailed event schedules and very cool shirts which we have to wear during the three day convention. The ITE convention is held biennially. The first ITE student seminar was held in 1997. In 2007, ITE collaborated with Hong Kong vocational training council and held a joint ITE-VTC student seminar in Hong Kong. There are four partnering institutions for the 2009 seminar. They come from Australia, Canada, Germany and Hong Kong.

Day 17, Sunday
June 21, 2009

Today all 10 of us from SAIT, the German delegation, 2 instructors and 4 students from the GDS College and one instructor from the US toured Sentosa Island. It gave us a change to interact with each other and exchange information about our colleges.

Schedule for the ITE student seminar:

Day 18, Monday
June 22, 2009

8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Opening act, Scenes from Singapore and welcome address by Mr. Bruce Poh, CEO/ITE and guest of honor Ms Grace Fu, Senior Minister of state, MND and MOE.
11.00 Dance performance by CeMTA, guest speakers Mr. Nig Ser Miang, chairman Singapore youth Olympic Games organizing committee. Topic: youth energy. Followed by question and answering session.
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Social and cultural visits
18.00 Dinner
22.00 End of program

Day 19, Tuesday
June 23, 2009

8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Guest speaker Mr. Tai Lee Siang, Director DP Architects PTE ltd, topic: Green equation, followed by student presentation: Green equation.
11.00 Guest speaker Dr Alice Yuk from HKIVE, topic: Youth care, followed by student presentation youth care. Question and answering session.
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Post lunch performance. Guest speaker Dr. Newton Fernando, Keio-Nus CUTE center. Topic: Youth tek. Followed by student presentation youth tek. Question and answer session.
14.30 Industry visits.
19.00 Dinner, social night.
22.30 end of program.

Day 20, Wednesday
June 24, 2009

8.00 Breakfast
10.00 Closing ceremony. Student’s performances: HKVTC – Fusion of youth energies. CeMTA – one voice.
10.30 Speech by guest of honor Mr. Zagy Mohammed, Member of Parliament for Hong Kah GRC.
11.00 Finale by CeMTA – let’s swing to the beat.
11.30 Lunch
13.30 End of program.