Technology, Education and Career Fair 2013 (TECXIII): “Enrich Your Career Path”

By Pnwee Jun Wee, BIS

Tronoh, 19^th June 2013 – Technology, Education and Career Fair 2013 (TECXIII) is one of the biggest annual events of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. The organizer is the Career Advisory and Alumni Services Unit of Student Support Service Department. “The main objective of this event is to provide a platform to UTP students, especially those who are going for internship or graduating soon, to acquire information of the companies that they plan to engage with,” said Mr Moosa Mohammed Taha Abdullah, Project Manager of TEC 2013. 

Opened to the public, TEC saw 25 secondary school’s involvement in the National Oil Rig Competition, a sub event of TEC 2013. Other pre-events include a pre-employment program, recycling competition, CV workshop, career talk, corporate grooming and so on.

TEC 2013 was mainly sponsored by SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad. “We are glad to have Dato’ Mokhzani Mahathir, Executive Vice Chairman of SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad as our VVIP for TEC this year,” said Mr Moosa.

TEC had witnessed a steady increase in the number of participating companies for the past twelve years since 2001. There were about 50 companies that participated in TEC this year, Shell, Petronas, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, Continental, Honda, Petra Energy, Aker Solution were just some to name a few. 

More pictures at: https://www.facebook.com/megat.faiz.3/media_set?set=a.4903251662425.1073741829.1331976617&type=1

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Minggu Mesra Kampus back again!

written by Joyce Shamini A/P Rajendran, CV. Pictures by Lukman Al-Hakim bin Baharuddin, BIS.

Once a hardly frequented area, Pocket C came into life with the blast of stereos marking the recruitment and promotion seasons of clubs, societies and vendors, as Minggu Mesra Kampus May 2013 (MMK) went on from the 4^th to 6^th of June. Here are some pictures you could judge the success of MMK from!

Our HOT reporters proudly showing off the latest HOT issue. 

No fair in UTP ever goes without a Blood Donation drive in conjunction. 

Special performance by the ladies of Aikido Club.

Warming up while keen spectators look on.

A demonstration of the self-defense art of Aikido.

The Chess Club booth constantly had challengers who challenged the team to a game of chess.

AIESEC-ers hard at work. 

Our photographer, Lukman, flanked by the deco's of the HOT booth.

The Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) attracted students with their blue themed booth.

AICHE recruiters doing all they can to convince Foundation students to join the club. 

Rakan Masjid promotiong their upcoming events, the most major one being iFest '13. 

The Silat Cekak Hanafi Club attracts new members by flaunting their awards and medals at their booth.

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ChildPro Charity Run 2013

ChildPro Charity Run 2013

by Charlene Sharmini Fernandes, CE

Chancellor Complex, 1^st June – Children Provision (ChildPro) Charity Run 2013 kicked off with an officiating speech and when the horn was blown, all the participants enthusiastically ran putting their best foot forward to embrace victory. The run started off in front of our majestic Chancellor Complex covering 7km for males and 5 km for the females. The boys had to dash to the main gate before passing through V5 and returning back to where they started. The girls however took a shorter path by heading towards the Lecture Halls, followed by a quick run through V5 and finally finishing at where they started as well.

Hamidelgzali Abdullah came in first with an unexpected time of 18.10 minutes. “It is just awesome!” he exclaimed upon reaching the finishing point. 

For the female category, Siti Hafizah Ariffah Bt Hj Ahmad Mahyuddin crossed the finishing line at exactly 26.24 minutes. She was exhilarated as this was her first time taking part in any run. “My birthday charm surely has been working really well today,” she added with a wink.

Winners walked home with a trophy and a water bottle signed by none other than our famous Dato’ Lee Chong Wei.  In addition to that, the champions of both categories received a hamper each.

Almur (2^nd, 2^nd, EE) a representative from the UTP Road Runners voiced his joy in running for charity. Baxter Yong (1^st year, 2^nd sem, PG) who came in 6^th for the boy’s category with a time difference of a nearly a minute also was contented as he felt healthier.  “Rather than sleeping through the whole morning, I did something fruitful,” he said.

Le Masculine Champions

This event brought together almost 113 participants and managed to raise a total of RM 665. At the end of the day, its project director, Ivan Tan was very pleased with his committee and was said to be looking forward to the upcoming ChildPro activities in store, i. e. Charity Basketball, Charity Fair and Charity Night. All funds raised were donated to children homes and orphanages at Ipoh.

The winners are as follows :-

Male

1^st        Hamedelqzali Abdullah Hamed                             18.16 min

2^nd        Lee Hsiu Eik                                                       18.51 min

3^rd        Victor Midir                                                         19.58 min

4^th        Mohd. Mikhael Bin Mohd Lesly                           20.22 min

Female

1^st        Siti Hafizah Ariffah Bintu Haji Ahmad Mahyddin    26.24 min

2^nd          Nur Shamimi Binti Abdul Rahim                            26.35 min

3^rd        Nur Zahidah Bintu Kamamdzaman                        26.46 min

4^th        Debra Chia                                                           28.31 min

 

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