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Fun, Friends & Fulfilment, all through cyber-gaming at The PlanetCRuSH Experience Experience healthy gaming groups, positive mentoring relationships and a wide range of seasonal activites. An enriching, safe and fun environment for youths to play games!

Life Changing Experience

"The mentoring programme imbuilds values such as RESPONSIBILITY and CARE & CONCERN. And if my whole experience were to be summed up into two words, it would be Life-Changing" - Nicholas, Youth Mentor

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Showing posts with label Mentoring. Show all posts

Youths Mentor Summit 2008


The Youth Mentors Summit 2008 is an exciting, high energy conference open to all youth mentors, who volunteers their time and effort to mentor younger youths. Expect an experiential event with inspiring plenary sessions, live chats with prominent mentoring pairs, and four practical mentoring skills workshops to choose from.
Registration Details:
4 October, Saturday, 8.30am - 2.00pm
No. 1 Marina Boulevard
Level 7, NTUC Conference Facilities (Auditorium)
(Raffles MRT Station)

Workshops available:
(A) Coaching your mentee - TRYBE
(B) Facilitate reflection and learning for your mentees - THE SERVICE LEARNING CENTRE
(C) Mentoring youths-at-the-fringes - MR GLENN LIM, CHAIRMAN ARCHITECTS OF LIFE
(D) Get it right: Building the right foundations for mentoring excellence - HALOGEN FOUNDATION SINGAPORE

To register, you may wish to download the registration form from http://www.nyc.pa.gov.sg/sl and fax the completed forms to Fax: 6737 2025 or email to resource@nyc.gov.sg

NYC Youth Service-Learning Award 2009

Never underestimate our Youths with their plenteous Energy and their Can Do spirits.When Empowered to Serve by Doing, young people often demonstrate their ability to rise above the challenges and make a difference to those around them.And through guided Reflection, youths learn from their serving, connecting the classroom to the real world; thus achieving the delicate reciprocal relationship between serving and learning, resulting in greater personal growth and social participation in our young people.

The Youth Service-Learning Award aims to highlight Service-Learning (S-L) projects that meaningfully integrate youth learning with service to the community. It also seeks to profile and reward innovative S-L projects that successfully engage youth in communities, enhance youth learning through service and empower youths for impact.

The Award is open to all S-L projects implemented from June 2007 to November 2008 by youths aged 30 years and below.

There are namely four categories of entries:

Category 1: Primary schools

Category 2: Secondary schools

Category 3: Institutes of Higher Learning (ITEs, JCs, Centralised Institute, Polytechnics, local Universities and NIE)

Category 4: Youth Organisations, Voluntary Welfare Organisations, Private Schools, Ethnic & Faith-Based Organisations and Self-Help Groups

Award winning teams in each category will receive a trophy, certificates and the following prizes:Gold Award: $2000 cashSilver Award: $1000 cashBronze Award: $500 cashMerit Award: $200 book voucherThe cash prizes are to be used to develop future S-L projects.For more information visit their website at www.nyc.pa.gov.sg/sl. For further enquiries please do contact the Resource Development Section at Tel: 68399181 or Email: resource@nyc.gov.sg

Could this be you??!!??


Was browsing some websites that a friend forwarded to me and found this very interesting article that narrated about the true story of a game addict who found cobwebs literally growing on his chairs. Of course that is a case of negligence and self-righteous thinking that over-gaming actually happens to someone who can't control themselves.


It's interesting to note that many people do say things like that:

"Oh I have full control over my gaming."

"I think I know when to stop.'

"Don't worry, I'm not a kid anymore"

"It's just a game, what harm can it do?"

Yet when we really come down to the game itself, we would say 10 more mintues to our parents, or maybe I don't want to go out today, just feel like staying home to play games and slack.
Typical language exchanges among the gamers these days.

Never say "never". You really don't know what may just happen when you play for that extra 15 minutes more.

Cyber Wellness Mentor Training Feb 2007

Youths are Leaders of Today!

That is why we believe in raising up youth as Cyber Wellness mentors so that they can help us be Cyber Wellness ambassadors to their families, classmates and friends!

Today we have students from Bukit Panjang Government High School and East Spring Secondary School at our centre undergoing our first Cyber Wellness mentor training of the year!

Click on the “Comments” to read the volunteers thoughts on the following:
1) On a scale of 0 (I would not do it again!) to 10 (It is out of the world!), what is your rating for your training today?

2) Why do you give yourself that rating?

3) What is 1 thing you have learnt?

4) How can you apply what you have learnt in your life?

SMU Ementors Appreciation and Review


Volunteers are our key partners in our work to mentor the youths. On 15 Dec, we have SMU Ementors Appreciation and Review at our centre for our SMU mentors! It is a time to affirm and encourage our volunteers. At the same time, it allows the volunteers to share and reflect their learning experience as Ementors for Project CRuSH students.

Click on the “Comments” to read the volunteers thoughts on the following:

1) On a scale of 0 (I would not do it again!) to 10 (It is out of the world!), what is your rating for your Ementoring experience?

2) Why do you give yourself that rating?

3) What is 1 thing you have learnt?

4) How can you apply what you have learnt in your life?

CWEP Session 6 - More than a Nickname


One matter which we strongly emphasize in cyberwellness tips is about learning to build up our real life character, instead of just levelling up in the virtual world. And one way of building up our character is learning to improve on our communication skills.

To work on that, we need to come back to the basics of understanding our behaviour and why we behave the way we behave! Our CWEP youths went through this in-house session on understanding more about themselves through the DISC profiling and also hilarious drama acting by the mentors.

Ultimately, the three important principles to take home: Aware, Accept and Adapt!

CWEP Session 5 - Life Is Beautiful!

CWEP participants went to Esplanade on 27 Nov for an afternoon of fun! Each was armed with a digital camera. Their mission was to capture a beautiful moment as they walked around Esplanade. All in all, they learnt that the beautiful moments in life are REAL and involve COMMUNITY!

Daniel: I learnt how to take photos and did something fun. I would try to do this more often.

Xin Wei: I learnt that I can spend my time better on other things than stay at home and play computer. I also learn how to enjoy myself in other ways. I want to have more outdoor activities.

Jian Ming: Photo taking is fun! I learnt that playing computer games will not help me in anything. I hope to be able to play less and try other useful things.

Adlar: Life is beautiful, even without the computer which is only a short term happiness.

Let look at the wonderful pictures taken by our youths! We are truly amazed by their talents!

CWEP Session 4 - Gladiators Unite


In this session, the young heros of CWEP were presented with difficult and mind boggling challenges. It was totally different from the physical demands of the basketball game experienced in the previous session. This time round, the challenges called for mental determination and perseverance. This was the defining moment which separates the winners and losers.

What stood in their ways was not just the difficult challenges, but also the witty and experienced trainers, espacially in the card memory game. Our young heros battled long and hard and finally managed to overcome the trainers! Kudos to our CWEP youths!

Mentally exhausted after this session, but each of our young heros brought back with them the important learning on Teamwork, Communication, Leadership and Perseverance.

CWEP Session 3 - Lock & Loaded!

CWEP Session #3: Lock & Loaded


After all the talks about Multiple Intelligence the previous week, now it's time to put theory into actions! The youths of CWEP had an afternoon fun game of basketball at Bukit Merah Community Center. Wow! Just when you think our youths are all coped up with gaming, they are just as active on the basketball court too.. running around and going all out to win!

Lesson of the day: Winning is not everything. In our daily lives, we will encounter things which we are not familiar with. What's most important is that we are not afraid of failure and will dare to try! (of course please do not try vices such as smoking or drugs)

CWEP Session 2 - Know Yourself & Know Your Opponent

CWEP Session #2: Know Yourself & Know Your Opponent


“It is not how smart I am, but how I am smart, that counts”


A time of self discovery of one’s own strengths and weaknesses! CWEP youths spent an exciting afternoon learning about their Multi-Intelligences (MI) and discovering how SPECIAL each of them is!

Let’s hear from some of the youths on what they have learnt and what they are going to do!

Boon Fong: Everyone has his or her own strengths. I want to exercise more to
improve my Body Kinesthetic.

Aazam: I learnt that I am self-smart and people smart. I want to appreciate others more

Gladwin: I want to know my weaknesses and improve on them.

Seah: I learnt that I am word-smart, music-smart and body-smart. I want to compose songs.

Luke: I learnt that I am self-smart. I want to study more and play less.

CWEP Session 1 - Face Off!

CWEP Session #1: Face Off!


Wow! Just this week we kicked off our CyberWellness Enrichment Programme, inline with what CWC has always promoted - To offer a healthy balance between the virtual and real community. Not only do we want to be pro's in our virtual character and conquest, but we also want to develop ourselves in the real world!

I wished I had such a programme offered to me in my generation 20 years back.. it is so much fun! Even I as a facilitator am enjoying myself with all the youths in CWEP!

Am excited about the upcoming next few sessions! It's gonna be loads of fun and learning experience man! Whoopie! =)