Students coming up with innovations to solve societal problems
In the recent new, a group of students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic have innovated a priority seat system for the needy. This innovation came from a video clip where two commuters are fighting over a seat. Co-inventor of this priority seat system, Seah Xiang Long and his group hopes to seek for a solution to prevent people from hogging onto the priority seat instead of providing it to the needy. Thus, they came out with a priority seat system where the seat can only be activate by a card held by a senior citizens or the driver to unlock the folded seat which fold down automatically if vacated. Needy can request the card from the driver if required.
Education alone is no longer sufficient for our students to survive in the society. They require skills, experiences and exposure. By participating in such competition, students are expose to the real world issues and are task to contribute so as to make the nation a better one. This will build up their national identity and encourage them to volunteer more and contribute to the well being of the society.
Hi Kam Lin!
ReplyDeleteThere are more schools that are adopting community projects into schools and they do try to teach us more social issues to be aware of the world that we live in. Although making students volunteer compulsory I don't feel is the right way to go about it. Not all students will be inclined towards helping others, there are some of them who just don't feel like volunteering. They should maybe start a CCA like what we have in NP called the NYAA, where students voluntarily volunteer. I agree that education is no longer enough in the working world anymore, we do need more experiences and exposures. Overall, students do have to want it and we should not force it on to them, it might just kill their passion in what they are passionate in.
Guga :)