Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Letter to Mdm Lee - Unignal's proposal
Dear Mdm Lee,
We are Tay Wei Kiat and Koh Poh Wei, two Secondary 4 students from The Chinese High School, and are old boys of Zhenghua Primary School. We graduated with favourable results in the year 2000, the very same year that you took over the leadership of Zhenghua Primary School.
First of all, we would like to thank Zhenghua, for creating a dynamic and conducive environment for us to study in. We had indeed experienced a wonderful and enriching 6 years in Zhenghua. Zhenghua had provided us with countless opportunity to develop to our fullest potential. You and your staff had also selflessly imparted invaluable knowledge to us. Henceforth, we strongly feel that it is our duty to reciprocate the kindness that your school had showered us.
We understand that with our meagre knowledge and resources, we will not be able to contribute as much as we would like to. However, we feel that it would be most appropriate, and sincerely hope that you will provide us with an opportunity, to conduct computer programming courses for students of Zhenghua. This is because we have identified found our niche in life in computer programming. Being relatively knowledgeable in this field, we would like to guide our fellow juniors in Zhenghua, so as to expose students to this invaluable skill at a young age. From there, we would be able to create interest among the students. Some, like us, may even want to pursue careers in related fields.
In the IT era, it is essential for students to be expose to programming at a young age, so that they will have an edge over thier peers. It is certainly not true that primary school students are too young to learn programming. In The Chinese High School's computer club, many of the students who joined the club were exposed to programming as young as 10.
Moreover, providing programming lessons will also be a rare and marvellous learning process for keen students like us. Besides having an opportunity to interact with students from Zhenghua, we will gain experience in related fields, which will come in handy in future. This will enable us to be better equipped so as to deal with the challenges that await us, as well as to overcome problems and difficulties. Indeed, we hoped to be enlightened by our stinct here.
We hope that this project would not only equip ourselves with the skills to deal with the challenges, but also an opportunity for us to boast our spirit of enterprise and entrepreneurship. Through such a process, we will be better equipped with the skills of managing our finance, an important attribute of entrepreneurs. Besides, a certain degree of risk is also involved in undertaking this project. However, we would like to stress that money is secondary, when we decided to offer our services.
Wei Kiat has achieved much in the arena of computer programming. In Secondary 3, his talents in computer programmming were recognized by the school and he is invited to join the school's computer club. Due to his remarkable achievements, he is scheduled to appear in the Hwa Chong Integrated Programme Magazine next year. His determination in pursuing his passion is in line with the Hwa Chong Spirit of "zhi qiang bu xi", and he is regarded as the role model for all IP students in Hwa Chong.
In order to pursue our profound interest in the field of computer programming, we, together with a like-minded student from The Chinese High School, have joinly formed the Unignal Software Team, a software development team which aims to design and improve on software. Indeed, programming provides us with a sense of satisfaction that we hoped to share with others. Programming is also a medium through which students can express their creativity, hence enriching their learning experiences.
We have intended to teach them Visual Basic 6, a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool developed by Microsoft, that allows programmers to create Windows applications in a short time. Based on Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC), it is also one of the most popular programming language in the world, thus making it an ideal language to be taught to young students. It could be used as a stepping stone for students, paving their way in learning more advanced languages, including C++, Perl, Java, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), and many others. We understand that Zhenghua has already been actively conducting web developing lessons using external applications such as Dreamweaver and Frontpage. Nevertheless, we are well equipped with web desigining skills, including Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML), and will be glad to offer our services in related fields. We hope to provide you with further details after our Cambrige GCE 'O' Level Examinations, which will end in mid-November.
On this note, we will like to wish you and all your staff a Happy Teacher's Day. We would appreciate it if you could provide us with the opportunity to contribute to Zhenghua, our alma mater. Wei Kiat could be contacted via email at unignal@gmail.com and handphone number [censored].
We are Tay Wei Kiat and Koh Poh Wei, two Secondary 4 students from The Chinese High School, and are old boys of Zhenghua Primary School. We graduated with favourable results in the year 2000, the very same year that you took over the leadership of Zhenghua Primary School.
First of all, we would like to thank Zhenghua, for creating a dynamic and conducive environment for us to study in. We had indeed experienced a wonderful and enriching 6 years in Zhenghua. Zhenghua had provided us with countless opportunity to develop to our fullest potential. You and your staff had also selflessly imparted invaluable knowledge to us. Henceforth, we strongly feel that it is our duty to reciprocate the kindness that your school had showered us.
We understand that with our meagre knowledge and resources, we will not be able to contribute as much as we would like to. However, we feel that it would be most appropriate, and sincerely hope that you will provide us with an opportunity, to conduct computer programming courses for students of Zhenghua. This is because we have identified found our niche in life in computer programming. Being relatively knowledgeable in this field, we would like to guide our fellow juniors in Zhenghua, so as to expose students to this invaluable skill at a young age. From there, we would be able to create interest among the students. Some, like us, may even want to pursue careers in related fields.
In the IT era, it is essential for students to be expose to programming at a young age, so that they will have an edge over thier peers. It is certainly not true that primary school students are too young to learn programming. In The Chinese High School's computer club, many of the students who joined the club were exposed to programming as young as 10.
Moreover, providing programming lessons will also be a rare and marvellous learning process for keen students like us. Besides having an opportunity to interact with students from Zhenghua, we will gain experience in related fields, which will come in handy in future. This will enable us to be better equipped so as to deal with the challenges that await us, as well as to overcome problems and difficulties. Indeed, we hoped to be enlightened by our stinct here.
We hope that this project would not only equip ourselves with the skills to deal with the challenges, but also an opportunity for us to boast our spirit of enterprise and entrepreneurship. Through such a process, we will be better equipped with the skills of managing our finance, an important attribute of entrepreneurs. Besides, a certain degree of risk is also involved in undertaking this project. However, we would like to stress that money is secondary, when we decided to offer our services.
Wei Kiat has achieved much in the arena of computer programming. In Secondary 3, his talents in computer programmming were recognized by the school and he is invited to join the school's computer club. Due to his remarkable achievements, he is scheduled to appear in the Hwa Chong Integrated Programme Magazine next year. His determination in pursuing his passion is in line with the Hwa Chong Spirit of "zhi qiang bu xi", and he is regarded as the role model for all IP students in Hwa Chong.
In order to pursue our profound interest in the field of computer programming, we, together with a like-minded student from The Chinese High School, have joinly formed the Unignal Software Team, a software development team which aims to design and improve on software. Indeed, programming provides us with a sense of satisfaction that we hoped to share with others. Programming is also a medium through which students can express their creativity, hence enriching their learning experiences.
We have intended to teach them Visual Basic 6, a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool developed by Microsoft, that allows programmers to create Windows applications in a short time. Based on Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC), it is also one of the most popular programming language in the world, thus making it an ideal language to be taught to young students. It could be used as a stepping stone for students, paving their way in learning more advanced languages, including C++, Perl, Java, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), and many others. We understand that Zhenghua has already been actively conducting web developing lessons using external applications such as Dreamweaver and Frontpage. Nevertheless, we are well equipped with web desigining skills, including Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML), and will be glad to offer our services in related fields. We hope to provide you with further details after our Cambrige GCE 'O' Level Examinations, which will end in mid-November.
On this note, we will like to wish you and all your staff a Happy Teacher's Day. We would appreciate it if you could provide us with the opportunity to contribute to Zhenghua, our alma mater. Wei Kiat could be contacted via email at unignal@gmail.com and handphone number [censored].
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