Hi again!

Another major NVAC event--the Inaugural National Student Action Conference! Some of you may have already read it from the IVLE annoucenements, this is just copied from the annoucement.

Date: Sat 26 August
Time: 9am-730pm
Venue: Saffron Room, at Office of Alumni Relations (OAR), NUS
Cost: Free

The inaugural National Student Action Conference (NSAC) is a new student-initiative, fronted by the NUS Students' Union Volunteer Action Committee (NVAC), and was founded with the intention for it to serve as an annual platform for tertiary students active in the community scene to network and develop their own community initiatives. By helping each volunteer to grow as individuals, and through encouraging the emergence of more bottom-up initiatives, NSAC hopes to help advance the community action scene as a whole .

The event will see 250 student volunteers benefiting from workshops on organisational development at the youth level by well known NPOs PromiseWorks and Thumbs Up. Participants will also have the opportunity to tap on the knowledge of experienced individuals, including the Guest of Honour RAdm (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Minister of State for Education, who will sit on the panel at the closing forum. Keeping with the theme of the conference: "Student Initiatives From Local Efforts to National Movements" NSAC will also be featuring presentations by resource providers and grantmakers, organisations that offer the resources and services that nascent initiatives may find useful in getting off the ground. As an added bonus, participants will be offered stage time to do plugs for their own projects and initiatives, while each organisation represented at the event will also be allocated space in the conference resource booklet to publicise their programmes.

Programme:
0830 - 0900 Arrival and Registration of Participants
0900 - 0915 Opening Segment, Opening Performance, Welcome by Project Director
0915 - 1000 Opening Segment, Opening Speech by Mr Raymond Huang, Founder of Heartware Network
1000 - 1100 Workshop I "Mentorship within Organisations" by PromiseWorks
1100 - 1130 Tea Break
1130 - 1300 Presentations by Resource Providers
1300 - 1400 Buffet Lunch
1400 - 1500 Workshop II "Organisational Leadership" by Thumbs Up
1500 - 1530 Stage Time for Participants
1530 - 1600 Arrival of Guest of Honour Keynote Speech by RADM(NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Minister of State (Education)
1600 - 1700 Forum "Student Initiatives
From Local Efforts to National Movements"
with panellists: RAdm(NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Minister of State (Education)
Mr Raymond Huang, Founder of Heartware Network
Ms Yeo Siew Mui, Student Volunteer Corps
Mr Terence Thaver, Manager of ISCOS Youth Wing
1700 - 1730 Closing Reception
1730 End

For more information, please contact Li Zongyin ( zongyin.li@nus.edu.sg )

Thanks!