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Community Service
About Realize-IT® Initiative
Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of InfoComm Technology (ICT) conceptualized the Realize-IT® program in year 2003 with the aim to inculcate the mindset of community spirit amongst our staff and students, in little ways we could, especially in the area of our expertise - Infocomm and Digital Media skills.
The Realize-IT® program is also our School of ICT's student development program that encourages students to apply their acquired skills and knowledge from their IT training to real-life situations to help the community at large. Through this program, students also acquired the critical social values of responsibility and giving back to society. All programs are supervisedby staff volunteers from the School.
The program comprised the various nature of work : - canvassing for donated PCs and peripherals
- recycling and refurbishing of used PCs for use by needy organizations
- conducting basic IT workshops & training to those who may have been left behind in the IT evolution (e.g. special needs' students, senior citizens)
- providing IT services such as PC and laptop trouble-shooting and repair, set-up and configuring of LAN and web-site development for needy organizations.
Some Instances of Realize-IT®
Clementi-Online Web-Pages for Hawkers and Retailers – 01 Jun 2004 to 28 Nov 2004
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Housing estate hawkers and retailers have lesser take-home revenue and are less likely to be able to develop web-pages to promote and publicize their businesses. About 310 students from Dip IT, MMC, IT(MBC) and BIT participated in this Realize-IT® program to develop web-sites for seventy retailers and hawkers over the semester of Jun to Nov 2004. The process required the students to work closely with the hawkers and retailers to better understand their businesses and problems that they encountered. The web-sites were eventually developed and delivered to the Clementi Community Club to be consolidated into the Clementi-Online Portal (COL). The Club’s objective is to develop Clementi into an IT hub and boost IT literarcy and PC owenership amongst its community. Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam launched the COL portal with all the web-sites on 28 November 2004. |
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Clementi Community Club PC Refurbishing for the Needy – 02-04 Dec 2004
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A team of twelve ICT students salvaged and refurbished used PCs for the Clementi Community Club eClub for use by the needy residents in Clementi town from 2nd to 4th December 2004. The team salvaged, refurbished and restored 46 PCs to good working condition from a set of 99 old PCs through a process of diagnosis, repair, refitting and reconfiguring. The salvaged PCs were then installed with Linux operating system and Open Office. |
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Ngee Ann’s First YEP trip to India - 12 Nov-02 Dec 2004
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An ICT team of twenty-five students led by staff members went on the first Ngee Ann SIF YEP (Singapore International Foundation Youth Expedition Program) trip to Calcutta, India on 12Nov-02Dec 2004 to provide the street children with IT exposure. We are also the first community service team to do a service project at a government home. The team worked with an Indian Non-Government Organization - Prajaak to bring 6 used PCs to their home in Barasat, on the outskirts of Calcutta. The PCs were refurbished, networked up on a local area network to be used as a laboratory for teaching IT. The team canvassed Microsoft to provide sponsorship of Microsoft Office software for installation on the PCs. The students also prepared IT courses on basic PC care and maintenance and Microsoft Office processing skills and taught a group of twenty-one children belonging to the home. The trip had provided the students invaluable opportunities for cultural exchange and experiential learning in addition to helping the less privileged overseas. |
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StrITsmart TM Cyber-Safety Workshop cum Mobile Race @e-Garage® (19 Dec 2005)
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Together with Microsoft Singapore, ICT organized the StrITsmartTM Cyber-Safety Workshop cum Mobile Race to educate the less privileged children on the potential dangers lurking around on the Internet and how to surf the Internet more safely. A cyber-safety workshop was given followed by a fun exciting mobile quiz where the students roamed around the polytechnic in search for questions pertaining to cyber-safety and answered the questions from the knowledge they gained from the workshop. More than 80 children from 4 different homes - Chen Su Lan Home, Children’s Aid Society, Darul Insan Orphanage and Jamiyah attended this fun-filled event. More than 120 ICT students as well as ICT and Microsoft management and staff helped out in the event. |
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ICT Realize-IT® Silver Programme (19 Mar 2011)
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The ICT Realize-IT® Silver Programme is a strategic collaboration between Ngee Ann Polytechnic School of InfoComm Technology (ICT) and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) to train the senior citizens of Singapore in the awareness and use of IT. This is part of the national Silver Infocomm Initiative. In our Realize-IT® Silver Programme, our staff and student volunteers will conduct basic IT and thematic seminars or workshops for the Silver Infocomm Programme members at the Silver Infocomm Junction which also includes Ngee Ann Polytechnic campus. In the workshop on 19 March 2011 with 30 senior citizens, the ‘Silver Students’ were given a briefing on what IT and IDM were all about and given a tour of Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s eGarage® and The Dot® for them to get a feel of how our students developed IT and IDM systems and content. This was followed by an infocomm workshop on eHealth. |
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Fund Raising for Children Cancer Foundation
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6 students from ICT’s Special Interest Group, IT is Art, partnered with Touch of the Hearts (TOTs), an NTU student-founded charity organization, to organise a fund raising event for Children’s Cancer Foundation (CCF) on 20th and 21st August 2011.
The objective was to raise $18,000 for CCF during their two-day nationwide event, "Colourful Rhythm of LIVes". Our MMA and A3DA students provided caricature drawings for sale during this event. A caricature of the Guest of Honour, Mr. K. Shanmugam, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Law was also drawn.
 
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Anime Workshop @ Choa Chu Kang Library conducted by Lecturer & students from School of ICT
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A group of ICT students from our SIG - IT is Art, led by their lecturer Mr Lawrence Koh, conducted an anime workshop for the public organised by Choa Chu Kang Library on June 11, 2011.
The objectives of the workshop was to provide a community service to the Choa Chu Kang community and promote our A3DA and MMA courses.
The programme included an introduction to Anime, Marvel and Caricature, demonstration and lessons on how to draw an anime, marvel character or a caricature.
Some members of the public had this to say of the workshop - The course is lively, especially the teachers at the table, teaching with passion, helpful and lively.
- We were introduced to different art and drawing techniques.
- It is fun. Children can learn more and gain interest on drawing. 
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Lunch with the disabled from SUN-DAC
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Students from ICT Student Council hosted a lunch for about 25 disabled people from SUN-DAC (Day Activity Centre for the Disabled) as part of the activities of a 3-day Leadership Development Camp. The students conceptualised, planned, and executed the entire event which includes organising a themed-lunch and an interactive programme consisting of dance performances, sing-along session and games. A special "Mooncake Festival" celebration was also part of the activities where they watched some entertaining videos, folded paper origami, played colouring games and of course sampled a variety of mooncake flavours. Organising the entire event provided the student leaders with many learning opportunities and a chance to serve the disabled community. One of the student leaders, Jocelyn Lim, said : I enjoyed planning the activities for the intellectually disabled. I learnt to be efficient – managed the work and time well "
 
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ICTians sharing the Importance of End-User Security with Residents of Radin Mas
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Armed with what they learnt from their Information Security module, 9 students from the Diploma in Information Technology course took time off after their examination to show the residents of Radin Mas on the importance of End-User Security.
Under ICT’s Realize-IT® program, this event was organized by the members of InfoSec SIG(Special Interest Group) and was held at Radin Mas Community Club from 12th to 16th of September 2011.
The students demonstrated to the residents how easily an attacker could sniff wireless traffic and view the text conversation between two end-users chatting with one another using MSN messenger, wiretap wire network to capture Voice over IP (VoIP) data packets and listen to voice conversation between two users using VoIP phone. They also showed to the residents how easily an attacker can steal data from their unprotected PC by using Keylogger software and also from their hand-phone through an unprotected Bluetooth connection.
Ms Yap, 26, who specially took time off on both evenings to come to the CC to watch their demo had this to say, “I am surprised that there are so many “holes” in today’s technology that an attacker could make use of to launch an attack to my notebook, some more the tools can be easily obtained from the net”.
What was noteworthy was how the students communicated the IT concepts to the residents, whose ages range from 16 to 60, including a number who spoke little English.
 
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