Wicked Festival Event Day 1, Part 2

Moving on to the next part of wicked festival, every student will be participating in the IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE!!!

 In groups of 6-7 people, we were assigned to build a catapult with limited materials provided! What is a catapult?! THIS!!!

Wondering what materials we used to build a catapult?! We only had 3 bamboo sticks, rubber bands, strings and newspapers!  With these materials, everyone started to build their own creative and innovative catapult, including the lecturers!! And the requirement was to build it within 1 and a half hour.

Starting from the scratch of racking our brains and starting our designs…

Cutting up bamboo sticks to meet different designs…

Next, building the actual design after much thinking and considerations….

And finally! Testing out how far the newspaper balls could actually fly!

Even the lecturers are involved!!! Using their Science and Mathematics to calculate the expected distance that they could win the competition!

FINALLY, LET THE COMPETITION BEGIN! In the IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE, the top 5 teams that managed to throw the furthest would win medals and gifts.

Every group was then gathered around the field to commence the competition.

After 30 minutes of being under the hot scorching sun, results were finally out and winners have been IDENTIFIED!!!

The Groups:

The “Organizers” aka “Helpers”

Going back to “The Hall” for award ceremony and de-brief, medals were given out to the top 2 winners and Ferrero Rocher were given to the other 3 teams!

EVERYONE!!! END OF WICKED FESTIVAL DAY 1!!!

--- Written by: Joleen ---

Wicked Festival Event Day 1, Part 1

Wicked Festival has been held from 11 to 12 April 2013.  The objective of the event is for current DIT second-year students to bond together and for to develop growth mindset in their learning.



During the first day of the event, students participated in various ice-breaking & team-bulilding activities. Students had a chance to work together to create the bonds among them.

 These were the early birds that had arrived on time!

We started off with our first activity, which was the self-esteem program! The trainers of the program had organized various bonding games to kick start the day! After that, the trainers gave us a talk on self-concept which consists of self-esteem, self-worth and self-efficacy.

A booklet entitled 'The Absorbent Mind' was given to us and we had to guess what the acronym G.R.A.C.E stands for. Can you make a guess? 

Did you manage to guess what G.R.A.C.E stands for? Here are the answers! 

The final activity of the program was a ring toss game. We were grouped by the trainers into groups of 10. Before we could start tossing, each team had to send out 2 players to toss the rings. Each time a player successfully tosses a ring around the peg, the team would be rewarded with points. Points are given depending on which marker the player stands on at the start point. The points range from 4 to 8 where point 4 is much nearer to the peg and 8 being the furthest. During each round, each team needs to do 10 squats to boost up the team's strong mind, will, and power! 

After a long streak of activities, lunch time has finally arrived and we enjoyed the feast! 

After lunch, Mr. Clarence Ng gave us a speech on elevator pitch. It is about giving a short speech to an important person about your product and its value proposition within a short period of time in the elevator. If the conversation turns out well, your client might exchange his/her business card with you and might even consider purchasing your product. The talk has the same concept when it comes to presenting our assignment to the lecturer.

In other words, we would want to successfully sell our assignment to the lecturer in hopes of giving us an A!