Trial Project Work Prelim Idea. Group 5.

1. PW 1SC2 Group 5
Group members:
 Shirlyn Yap
 Hillary Goh
 Lim Kim Aerin
 Jacomus Lim
 Rachel Tay

2. Partnering
Organisation
Singapore Environmental Council (SEC)

3. Arms
Industrial
Educational
Community

4. Aims of SEC
 To set new sustainability standards for urban
development
 To educate and empower communities to lead
green lifestyles
 To conserve biodiversity in the urban
environment

5. Past Projects of the SEC
School’s Green Audit Award
ECO-OFFICE
Earth Helpers

6. Project Title
So Environmentally
Conscious

7. About the project
Rubbish/recycling bin decorating competition!

8. Project Objectives
 Raise awareness about the plight of our crumbling
environment and how it will affect Singapore
tourism
 Help to spread the importance of keeping
Singapore clean to all parties involved
 Produce some aesthetically-pleasing rubbish bins,
a stark contrast from the commonplace plain
green bins
 Engage passers-by to do their part in keeping the
environment clean

9. Description
 Students across Singapore can get into groups of 3
to 4 and sign up for the competition.
 Groups must submit an outline of their design
along with the names and schools of all
participating members to organisers. Deadline will
be on 30th March
 Their drawings must be based on the theme of
everyone playing a part in keeping Singapore
clean and green.

10. Description
 40 shortlisted groups will beinformed and be told
to prepare their own art materials and supplies.
 Groups will come together to a certain venue to
start their embellishment of the bins 3 weeks
after the submission, on the 15th of April.

11. Description
 Judges will then judge the decorations according
to different criteria such as creativity, originality
and its relevance to the theme.
 These bins will then be placed in public places to
be used and also to alert passing Singaporeans of
their need to play a part in being environmentally
conscious.

12. Permissions
 At least one teacher per school for each group (for adult
supervision). Permission from the schools would be required.
 Permission from the Singapore Botanical Gardens, for it to be
used as the venue where students will decorate the bins at.
 Permission from the NEA to provide the bins for the
competition.

13. Financial Issues
• Bins (clean and new ones) required for the
students to work on.
As the bins used for the competition would be
the current 100 out of the 1500 bins in
Singapore, there will not be any cost incurred
for the bins.

15. Recycling Bin to be decorated

16. Financial Issues
• Basic environmentally friendly art supplies
such as paints will be provided for each
group.
However, sponsorships can be obtained
from Singapore’s various Art shops (eg
Artfriend, Paper Market, Typo, etc) to supply
the students with basic art materials.

17. Human Resources
 Facilitators from SEC and the 3 judges, Chairman of
SEC, Ms Isabella Loh, the two vice-chairmen, Prof Leo
Tan Wee Hin and Dr Teo Ho Pin.
 Each facilitator will brief 5 groups and supervise the
activity with the help of the teachers from each
group (giving out the paints etc).
 Student participants themselves!

18. Physical Resources
 The Botanical Gardens must be contacted to get permission
to execute the large-scale event there.
 The Botanical Gardens will be scouted to ensure enough
spaces for the bins to transported and decorated without
disturbing the public at the Botanical Gardens.

19. Potential Problems
 Not enough publicity of theevent
 Not enough student participants

20. Resolving the problem of:
Insufficient Publicity
 Schools can be informed via email of this
competition. Students can then be alerted of this
competition through their schools.
 Distribution of leaflets
 Online campaigning (through facebook, twitter,
etc)

21. Potential problem of:
Insufficient student participation
Year 2007:
Singapore Postbox
Decorating
Competition
Theme: Celebrating
the Sg Spirit

22. Year 2011:
YOG themed
postbox design
competition

23. Feasibility
 Permissions required should be generally easy to
attain as the good publicity of the event would reflect
well on the supporting companies as it is for the
environment.
 Financially possible as a it is not relatively expensive
for such a large project and costs can be covered with
donations from exterior organisations.
 Human resources will not be difficult to arrange for the
event. As seen by above examples, students are very
willing to participate.

24. Conclusion
 Let’s keep our environment green!