Craft @ Katong Convent

We recently completed a Coaching Programme for CHIJ Katong Convent. The main aim of the programme was to equip the girls with the necessary skills to make their own innovative products for sale. We engaged Agnes, a former teacher who has her own craft business now to helm the programme.

Here's some footages from the programme:

If you would like to view more of Agnes' work, visit www.bluecolander.wordpress.com

It takes a different kind...

of student to be able to apply what they have learnt from your workshop and put those ideas into great use.

The youth from the National Junior College Innovation & Enterprise Club are exactly the kind of students who have what it takes to convert ideas into winning designs.

The InnoWorks™ @ red dot design museum programme was aimed at helping them to idealize and conceptualise different ideas for competitions such as the RJC Toy Challenge and Citibank Ideas In Action.

And we were overjoyed when 2 of those designs got into both competitions above. I always believe that the red dot design museum is a great nexus for innovation and design. And Sharon, the President of the I&E Club, says it best,' I really enjoyed the exhibition of ideas (at the museum) and seeing how an idea that I had thought of during GEC (have) actually won a RedDot award. This highly motivates me.'

So congratulations to Edmund and his team, the Youth Enterprise Academy team is behind you every step of the way!

The New Wave of Entrepreneurs

As part of a career drive, Nanyang Girls' School invited us to bring together a group of entrepreneurs to give a career talk to their students.



So we approached some young entrepreneurs who're part of the Talentpreneur Hub community, Nicky Teo of Funeral Solutions as well as Goh Cheng Ze and Serene Yeo from Dotbox to share their experiences with the students.


We know that these young entrepreneurs will be able to provide a refreshing perspective to being an entrepreneur to the youth.

And sure enough, Serene and Cheng Ze flashed pictures of themselves in when they were still in secondary school, not too long ago, and they drew gasps of surprise from the crowd when they revealed that they were only 2 years older than the secondary four Nanyang girls.

Jaws also dropped when Nicky shared about his years of experiences in the funeral industry despite being only 18. Nicky has enjoyed numerous press coverage on his choice of industry and being successful despite his youth.


Joanna, Education Director of Youth Enterprise Academy, told the girls of the passions that Nicky, Serene and Cheng Ze had for their work, and to be able to make a difference in their industries. It is this common denominator that brought them to us as Talentpreneurs.


Their inherent passions is the reason why these entrepreneurs are making waves and headlines, and that was a message that resonated with the audience.


(from left, Cheng Ze and Serene, Joanna, Nicky and yours truly)

For more information on Nicky Teo and Funeral Solutions, visit http://www.funeralsolutions.com.sg/ .


For more details on Dotbox and their aims, visit http://dotbox.youth.sg/