9 out of 93 PSC scholarship recipients in 2019 are polytechnic graduates, an all-time high - straitstimes.com

SP’s Diploma in Infocomm Security Management graduate, Teo Chuan Kai, as one of nine poly graduates who received the Public Service Commission (PSC) scholarship this year.

This is the highest number of polytechnic recipients yet. Chuan Kai shared how he got a taste of polytechnic life after taking up a five-day advance elective module on cyber security in secondary school. Despite qualifying for a junior college, Chuan Kai decided to enrol in SP due to the interesting modules in the polytechnic curriculum. 

He also shared how his internship experience at GovTech gave him opportunities to nurture his interest in cyber-security and public service. Chuan Kai will be reading information security at the National University of Singapore.

Source: straitstimes.com for more details.

Coding enrichment classes to be made compulsory for all upper primary pupils next year - straitstimes.com

SINGAPORE - All upper primary pupils will have coding classes from next year, as part of the Government's goal to develop a healthy pipeline of tech talent for the digital economy. 

- straitstimes.com 10 Jul 2019 for more details.

In the article, "Mr Iswaran also announced that the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) will be expanding its youth engagement outreach with the Singapore Cyber Youth Programme (SG Cyber Youth), a collaboration with the cyber security industry and academia......

It will build on CSA's existing efforts, which include the Youth Cyber Exploration Programme (YCEP) boot camp, a multi-day initiative which aims to introduce secondary school students to the opportunities of a cyber-security career and was started in collaboration with Singapore Polytechnic last year."

We were very glad that SOC management team, DISM teaching team and students had worked very closely with CSA on the inaugural Youth Cyber Exploration Programme  (YCEP) in 2018 (more details at SP's web site).

Now the programme is expanded to all the five polytechnics. We hope that the secondary school students will benefit from participating in this programme.

DSO Diploma Scholarship Award Ceremony 2019

Congratulations to two of our DISM students for being awarded the DSO Diploma Scholarship for the Academic Year 2019/2020 on 5 Jul 2019.

The DSO Diploma Scholarship aims to identify talents at Diploma level, and to encourage them to consider a career in defence technology. As part of the Diploma Scholarship, the students are required to serve an internship with DSO so that they can understand the work involved in defence R&D.

DISM Year-2 student, Roy Tan Hao Qian received the award
from DSO CEO, Mr. Cheong Chee Hoo.

DISM Year-1 student, Loh Kar Wei received the award
from DSO CEO, Mr. Cheong Chee Hoo

From L to R: Loh Kar Wei, Samson Yeow (DISM Course Chair)
and Roy Tan Hao Qian.

Once again, Congratulation to all the DSO Diploma Scholarship recipients!!!