My Social Engagement Journey

Date: 30/4/2018 Venue: Mercy Malaysia Activities: As mentioned in the previous post, we intended to make some charity donation with our remaining profit.  Few of our members actually recommended us to donate the fund to Mercy Malaysia and several other NGO for good purposes. After some research, we found out that actually Mercy Malaysia would be the best choice as the projects they are working on are meaningful yet create an impact among the society. We are more than glad to be able to make our donation to Mercy Malaysia. We went on a journey to Mercy Malaysia on 30th of April to make a short visit while donating the fund. The HODs and I were pleased to know that our fund will be in good use for Mercy Malaysia after their brief presentation about their projects. They even suggested us with future partnership to carry out some volunteering in UM. 

Date: 7/4/2018 & 8/4/2018 Venue: FSKTM Day 1 - 7/4/2018 We arrived very early as we were busy setting up and doing preparations upon the arrivals of the schools students and VVIP. We were glad and honored to have Dr. Augustine from MINDS for our guest in the opening ceremony. Every departments are working under a team to ensure this event runs smoothly. Our team is big with 54 members all together, hence we were more than prepared to guide the students from 12 schools.  Regardless of some schools didn't turned up on that day, we were thankful for other schools which took part and participated actively. After the opening ceremony, we quickly separate them into smaller groups, and assigned 4 mentors for each groups. For my group, I started by explaining page to page of the Intel book, so that the little primary kids can get some understanding about what they are going to dive into. It was a challenge to explain something such as sonic sound waves which we u...

An important update is that our main event had changed to be cooperating with Intel for their event. We are no longer going to have a workshop in our faculty, yet we took up the change to work with Intel. This decision was sudden, yet all of us agreed to take up this event as our event activities and aim were quite similar. We were glad to host the event as we get trained by the professionals and the event gave an larger impact which is what we were looking for. Date: 6/4/2018 Venue: MM3, FSKTM Activities: On 5th of April, we do have a short meet up for all the HODs with Faiz, to get updates for 6/4/2018. While on 6/4/2018, we had our morning session workshop with Faiz, in which he described our tasks, and the procedure to build a robot car. He also gave a detail explanation of arduino, an Intel microprocessor. We learnt some basics coding for C++ language. Since, the engineers from Intel couldn't make it during the training session, we were asked to attend the evening sess...

Date: 15/3/2018 Venue: Dk2, FSKTM Activities: After fundraising, movie night is another important event to raise the fund. A lot of work and efforts were poured into this night.  Before fundraising, we went to buy drinks, ingredients and materials needed. Personally, I went for price surveying for 3 times! And I went for materials and ingredients buying for twice. Unfortunately the all places I went didn't sell popcorn even though we did research before even going.  We faced problem such as booking the Dewan Kuliah 2, changing of date, postponing along the way and also we couldn't find any popcorn. I had to thank our project manager who found popcorn when he was shopping with his friends and bought us 100 packets of it.  TASK DURING MOVIE NIGHT (Basically what cinema workers do) 1.     Ensure all audiences buy ticket before entering. 2.     Self-brought food and drinks are not allowed. 3.  ...

Date:12/3/2018, 14/3/2018, 21/3/2018 (For marketing department) Venue: Kitchen in KK10 Activities: Food Preparation for Fundraising After a lot of discussion with all HOD and also project manager itself, the final menu is shown below. As seen below, we were selling 4 items which include Maggi-style Yakisoba bread, sausage cup, kacang putih and pillow biscuits. For my department, we were divided by two teams which are food preparation team and delivery team. Food preparation would be the girls while the food delivery team would be male members. This is mainly due to we only had have access to girls' campus to cook, hence we let the guy to handle the delivery part. Day 1 (12/3/2018)  & Day 6 (21/3/2018) - Food Preparation Team For day 1 and day 6, we marketing department was responsible to prepare the food! Originally we planned to start cooking at 5.30 p.m. yet the order list was not updated by other HODs, which leaded us to cook at 6.00 p.m. Fo...

Fundraising 101  First of all the menu, 1. Maggi-style Yakisoba bread aka Maggi in the bread 2. Sausage cup/ Hotdog cup 3. Kacang putih 4. Pillow biscuits  5. Popcorn (movie night)  6. 100plus drinks, Chrysanthemum tea, Lemon tea (for movie night) What to do during fundraising?   - We will need every member to share the whatsapp order list in their respective kk (residential college)’s whatsapp group. - The order will be closed at 5pm and then order list was then send back inside the HOD group by the HOD. - The responsible HOD, will then send the order list to department group. - The leader for the preparation department will have to collect the materials from KK3 (third residential college) at 5pm. -   Preparation department can start cooking once got the order list and preparing the order. (Order should be ready on 6.45pm) -  Delivery department will stands by at 6.45pm to ensure delivery to each kk on 7.00pm. (Note...

Date: 12/3/2018 Venue: MM6, FSKTM Activities: Basically, all the members were gathered this day to exchange information between departments. Another aim for this gathering was to update everyone about all of the activities that we are going to carry out. All along, we had been discussing in our respective department, and we thought that we need a day so that we can have connections and understanding among departments. Hence, cooperation of the department can be made more smoothly. What we did: - Each HOD, gave a short description about what the department had done. - Dr. Su and Shawn updated us about the flow of the events and important details for the events. Actually, today was also the start of fundraising by food selling, but I thought to compile all the fundraising in another post.

Date: 6/3/2018 Venue: Dr. Suraya's office Activities: All HoD and Vice HoD were asked to have a short meeting in Dr.Su's office. We gathered to discuss a few matters and Dr. Su updated us with few details that need to be added in respective proposals. This meeting was mainly served as a checkup so that we are ready for all documents required to the main office in faculty. We confirmed about the dates, venue and lastly the tentative of the workshop.  The short meeting was great as we seldom being gathered together physically to discuss all of the details. All of us understands each others tasks  and responsibilities. With that, we were prepared to handle the upcoming events.