Experiment Updates

As promised, we will regularly update this space as we move closer to our Pre-CIP.

After months of hard work and countless prototypes, the experiment team has finally succeeded in developing a mobile toy car using recycled material.

Presenting Team CHEWAY!'s balloon-powered toy-car

Well, it might not look much, but is a short clip of it in action!

We hope that the children can be exposed to simple Physics through this toy car making session, and most importantly find this activity interesting and enjoy the toy car making process.

That's all for now. Cheers!

Pre-CIP site recce and briefing

Hello!

Team CHEWAY! is finally back into action after our finals...

In preparation towards our local CIP, the team attended a briefing conducted by our partner, Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centre (FSC). The pre-CIP aims to prepare the members towards our trip to Tacloban, by conducting our educational and interactive activities for the FSC. In addition, we hope to enhance the social interaction between the children in the family centre through our activities.

We will be conducting a 2-days programme for 2 branches of the FSC, Cheng San and Seng Kang. The team will be divided into 2 smaller teams in order to conduct the programme.

The briefing has allowed the team to gather valuable insights to the demographic of the children in the centres, and the advice given by the staffs were helpful in guiding us to manage the children better. The briefing was followed by a site recce, to aid us in planning of the programme.

Overall, we have gathered useful information during the briefing and recce. The next 2 months leading up to our trip will be a tedious period, but I am sure the whole team will stay together and make Project CHEWAY! a successful and meaningful one.

We will be posting our Project updates regularly, so do check this space out!

Signing off for now!

Transparency on $$$

Even though I got pranked so badly by my members, this call and email still made my day!

For the sake of my members, I shall explain it again:

YEP funding is based on a certain percentage of the project's expenditure, capped at $20,000. By getting 50% funding (the max for a new project), it means that the burden of the expenses will be halved. Nope, it does not fully ease the expenses and YEP does not give the lump sum of $20,000, but with this 50%, we will be able to save $0.50 for every dollar spent.

How is this significant?

The air tickets to Tacloban are not cheap and the materials would be quite costly too. An average trip to Tacloban can cost about 1.5-2x more than that of a trip to Cambodia, but of course it's 10x more meaningful, I can guarantee that.

Say if we were to spend 40k in total for 30 people and on an estimate of 5k from funds raised,
Without funding:
Cost a member need to contribute= $(40,000 - 5,000) /30 pax = $1,167/pax.

Now, say we can claim 20k from YEP:
Cost a member need to contribute= $(40,000 - 20,000 - 5,000)/30 pax = $500/pax. See the importance of the funding now?

On the fine print, there are some additional items we won't be able to claim for, such as the NGO admin fee, Fundraising materials, R&R and telecom cards, but the significance of the YEP funding is there.

Therefore, every amount we can afford to not spend FROM OUR OWN POCKETS matters, and our FUNdraising and Marketing comms are actively raising funds. Your PDs hope that you guys will be able to empathise in this and help the subcomms when they need help!

Oh and on the FAQ on why we need to collect $1,000 in advance, this is because OFA(Office of Financial Affairs) disburse the funds via claims, and we will need to produce physical receipts before we can claim the moolah! The funds is also split into two trenches, we can claim (with suitable receipts) up to $10,000 before we embark on our trip, definitely not sufficient or the whole trip.

Hence, seeing that we may have cash flow issues, we got Sandy to collect the money from you guys first, and we will return the balance to you after the second trench comes in, probably within 3 months after Cheway! Therefore we seek your understanding in this.

Well, to be honest, I have never felt so relaxed and happy for a long while. We have all come so far, fighting for 30 members, NGO, new location, recce, funding and it has really not been a smooth sailing journey seeing people fight or leave. We know that not everyone are seeing the project at the same level as us but we assure everyone of you that we are sincerely appreciative that you have chosen to spend your year with cheway. In return, we will fight for the best for you guys. We believe at the end of the day, you will be able to tell the others that you have learnt a lot, gained new friendships and left a legacy behind.

Thank you, members of Cheway!

Programme Experiments Try-out

Greetings from the dedicated Prog Comm!

We did our Experiments try-outs yesterday. This is to ensure that we are well-prepared to conduct the experiments and allow the audiences to see the desired results.

And yes, we were working on CNY eve, because we want to make sure that we only offer the best educational activities to the children for our Local and Overseas Project.

Here's some highlights from today...

Aftermath of the Pressure-Crusher Experiment

DIY Water Rocket Launcher

Credits to Lionel for loaning us his equipments, the try out wouldn't have been possible without his inputs.

Lastly ....

Programmes has grown from being a committee of 10 individuals into a FAMILY of 10 members, which constantly looks out for each other. We will continue to work hard in order to bring joy to our targeted community.

Till next time...

嘻唰唰 嘻唰唰!

We had a really exhausting week! 嘻唰唰ing for everyone! Thank you everyone who contributed to the success of the FUNdraising week! Be it for the Carwash, Perler, Polaroids and covers, or even just donation to us. We sincerely thank everyone of you:)

A shoutout to our amazing FR comm once again, it would not have been so successful and enjoyable without all of you! Kudos to everyone in Cheway! who make it for your shifts and even stayed longer for all of them :) Your PDs are really motivated by all you guys. We can feel the love tonight!

Have a 嘻唰唰 CNY HOLIDAYS! Everyone!!!!

Good To Go:)

Thank you everyone for your help thus far! Keep our fingers crossed!

1st Fund Raising Preparations!

Hi guys, been busy these few days but just a short update. Our FUNdraising comm has been planning for our first canvassing effort on 27th January, a.k.a. Engin Day:) We have not only these pretty Perler Beads, but also mascot stickers and brownies for sale! 

We are also selling coupons that lead to our second initiative in NUS: VALENTINE'S CARWASHING. Watch our handsome and pretty cheway members wash your precious cars on the 11th to 13th Feb! Buy the coupons from us, only at $10!!

And lastly, our FR comm came up with some whacky ideas to create a photobooth that suits the Engin Day theme:) Look at this cool frame with our FR head inside ^^

Well, we just hope everyone will be able to support our booth on your free day! See the details below:

Project Cheway! booth

Sales of Brownies: $4

Perler Beads: $3-10 per pax

Car Wash Coupons: $10 per car

Mascot stickers: 2 for $1

Polaroid plus Clear Phone Cover: $5 only!!

SO CHEAPPPP! In addition, we will have a small surprise for you who liked our page! Do stay tune and show us the liked page of Cheway! again!

See yall folks in 2 days!!