Freshmen Orientation Day, known as the Engineers’ Day was held on 12th April 2011 specially for our new intake of freshmen. Organized by Cyriva Club, we welcomed a total of more than 200 freshmen!
We started off with the ice breaking games! The freshmen had so much fun among themselves with our student leaders and they started to make friends with one another!
After the ice breaking games we sent the team out for the team building games. These games are related to our School of Engineering course modules.
By allowing them to play these games, they got an idea of what they will be learning in new school term. As they were playing the team building games, they also learnt the SEG cheer, and the whole stretch of walkway leading to South Agora from Agora Hall were filled with the voices of Engineers!
After the team building games is lunch time! Delicious yummy food was delivered to them! These new freshman sat around in a circle and ate together, as they ate, they chatted with one another and got closer with their team mates and student leader.
After lunch was the practice of Tug-of-War! This was to prepare our freshmen for the Tug-of-War competition during Orientation Programme 2011! For those who are not tugging, they were led by a team of student leaders to practice the Cheers. The freshmen cheered at the top of their voice for the SEG Tug-of-War team!
Tug-of-War Training Competition between Staffs and Students
Students Team led by Student Leaders, all ready to win the Staff Team
After all the training and cheering, we went back to Agora Hall 2 for the freshmen to rest and refreshments were provided. As they rest, our guest speaker representing IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology) came and they put on seriousness on their faces, wanting to know more about their future prospects. The speaker inspired them to be a great engineer and everyone gave a standing ovation for the speaker.
Following this, we had photo hunt as our last event of the day! We sent teams of freshmen out to search for places in the given photos given and they had to take a team picture in the places to complete the game!
Leaving a memory in their phone with their team mates, the freshmen ended their day and went home with a great experience on their 1st day in Republic Polytechnic.