Sunway’s team is the winner of Big History

Demonstrating an excellent knowledge of history and science, a team of young students from Sunway College emerged as the champion in the Big History inter-campus quiz challenge, beating 18 other teams from local colleges and universities. Organised by Astro’s History Channel, the competition was held at Petrosains, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre and officiated by Deputy Education Minister I Datuk Mary Yap.

Sunway team, named Team Sunway Professional 4 comprised of four college students from the Foundation in Arts (FIA) – team leader Yim Soon Keat, Avery Choke Kar Sing, Muhd. Hazim bin Dahuli and Ria Heryani Binti Mumfahir. As the champion, the team member each received a certificate, a Kindle Fire, an Apple TV and an MPH voucher worth of RM50.

From left: Avery Choke Kar Sing, Ria Heryani Binti Mumfahir, Yim Soon Keat and Muhd. Hazim bin Dahuli

Student wins a Full Tuition Fee Waiver from Sunway College in Public Speaking Competition

“Plastic didn’t decide to kill itself, to jump into the river and cause pollution. We are the ones who decide there’s the trash bin and there’s the river. So why blame plastic for pollution when we are the ones who decide to throw our trash into the river and not into the rubbish bin”, this was one of the points made by seventeen year old Ethan Ganes who emerged as Champion in the Public Speaking & Essay Writing Competition 2014.

The competition organised by Sunway College together with the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Malaysia saw a crowd of 792 fourth and fifth formers, led by 88 teachers from 49 schools, as far away as Ipoh, Seremban and Melaka attending the event. While their fellow friends attended the talks held within the Sunway campus, 90 students participated in the public speaking competition and 88 in the essay writing competition.

All the winners with the judges and representatives from Sunway College and the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Malaysia

Sunway Students Spread the Love with TGIF Foodbank

Donating daily necessities is one of the most effective ways of supporting those in need. The Sunway Student Volunteers (SSV) successfully raised RM3,600 worth of food items and RM1,150 cash to be donated to the entities under the umbrella of Grace Community Services (GCS).

The project, aptly called “Turn Groceries in for Foodbank” (TGIF Foodbank), was initiated by SSV and Sunway Student Services Department (SSD) in partnership with GCS, a registered non-profit charitable organisation in Klang for charitable homes, rehabilitation centres, feeding centres, rural schools, poor families and individuals.

Tan Xue Wen, Project Director for TGIF Foodbank (5th from left) and her teammates with Matthew Chung and Dommen Philip, representatives from Grace Community Services (6th & 7th from left), Jerrine Koay, Director of Public Relations (3rd from left), Lee Siok Ping, Director of Student Services (4th from left), and Jane Poh, Director of Branding (4th from right)