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Tuesday 1 April 2014

SPDeC's Youth Social Responsibility Progam Sets New Standard

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By Nur Dalilah Dzulkarnain, Foundation/3rd, PG

Tronoh, 29th March- Held to provide a platform to develop technical and soft skills as well as introduce high schoolers to the engineering way of thinking, ASME-UTP-SC with sponsors from Gempak Starz and IM4U held their first ever SPDeC Youth,Social Responsibility (YSR) program, in conjunction with Student Professional Development Engineering Conference Malaysia 2014.

A total of 85 students from three different schools which are Methodist Girl’s School(MGS), SMK Simpang Pulai and SMK Sri Iskandar had participated in this 3 day program starting from 27th March to 29th March.

Mr Ahmed Fouad, head of ASME Asia Pacific, was invited as the honoured guest at the closing ceremony and he gave a short speech on the importance of working together as a team in such programs and having leadership qualities from an early age. Among his words of wisdom were, “Don’t be followers, be leaders”. He also congratulated the winners of the games and activities conducted by the SPDec comittee.

Participants waiting eagerly for their tie-breaker question during the Quiz.


The 3-day event was the first YSR program of such length and will serve as an important example to future programs by other clubs and events.

Ms Vanisha Kumar, 2nd year 2nd sem/CE, the Head Of Department of  YSR went on to share that the program was a big success and they are looking forward to holding similar events in years to come, besides improving on what they were lacking in this time.

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