SEDEX Intro Day

Tronoh, 7 November: SEDEX (Science and Engineering Design Exhibition)’s Intro Day was held as a jump start and ice breaking session for the upcoming SEDEX 31 by the new board of SEDEX’s high committee. Attended by at least 100 students, the event was held to promote and introduce what SEDEX to the new students. The introduction day started with an introduction of SEDEX 31's structure by the project director, Kanagesh. “This SEDEX is going to be different from the previous ones since this time we will be having more pre-events in order to make SEDEX more grand and successful” said Project Director, Kanagesh Manoharan (CE, 2nd/2nd).

Soon after, the committee played the SEDEX 30’s opening montage to give a small insight about SEDEX to the audience.

The pre-events that will be taking place as part of the build-up to SEDEX 31 are – 

·         National SEDEX,

·         Corporate Social Responsibility (Nurture A Project),

·         Company Sharing Session and Industrial Field Trips.

·         Youth Social Responsibility Event called Nurturing A Project (23rd Feb)

There was also an explanation of the National SEDEX, an event where SEDEX will allow participants from all over Malaysia to exhibit their projects and presentations in UTP. This initiative was introduced to help UTP reach the Research University Status by 2013. 

Project Director SEDEX 31, Kanagesh A/L Manoharan giving his brief introduction on the new aspects of SEDEX 31.

Meanwhile, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will aim to aid school children to conduct and start their own science projects. This project will commence in schools around Tronoh and Taman Maju, says Assistant Project Director, Tan Loo Sen.

Project director Kanagesh then also introduced the Company Sharing Session, during which there will be presentations and sharing sessions with various companies from the industry.

There were also mini games such as ‘sky scrappers’ and ‘charade’ as part of the Intro Day. The committee recruitment session will be held very soon. 

SEDEX 31 HiCom