Team Building for EMRS S2/R2/2011

EMRS Team Building Day!
Team building was essential for the EMRS students as we were all unfamiliar with each other. Hence, 15th Dec afternoon was set aside for our team-building event to break the ice among each other. The game ICs spent $15 to buy prizes for this event.

First game: Whacko!
Our first icebreakers game is Whacko! Students were asked to sit in a circle, and one person will be chosen to stand in the center. A name will then be shouted & the person in the centre has to go to the person whose name has been called out & use the newspaper roll to gently tap the person. However, if the person whose name is called managed to shout another person’s name before he/she has been tapped, the person would have to go to the next person. The person who is in the centre will carry on this till he/she successfully taps on someone.
The teams played this game among themselves first before the whole of EMRS played this game together. This is to allow the team members to better know each other and for team bonding before they get to know the rest of the EMRS students.

Second game: Human Knot
Each team has to stand in a circle facing each other. Students then have to hold another student’s hands in a way whereby a knot will be formed. When the knot is formed, teams will then attempt to untangle themselves as fast as possible to emerge the winner.

Third game: Dog and Bone
2 teams were lined up in a straight line facing each other with a bottle in between them. Each student from each team is then given a number ranging from 1-9.
Whenever their number is being called out by the OIC, the student from each team would have to attempt to bring the bottle safely back to their team without being “touched” by the other team. The team who manages to bring the bottle safely back the most number of times wins!

FINALLY! THE RESULT OF TODAY’S TEAM BUILDING EVENT!!!

The winner is TEAM 2! And for their efforts, they were presented with a packet of Lay’s chips to share.

The rest of the teams didn’t walk away empty-handed! They were also given some snacks to share among themselves.

The entire event ended within 2 hours. And you can see in many of the students’ faces that they were tired but the bonds & relationships that they have established with each other have definitely become stronger too!

FairPrice Christmas Bazaar

FairPrice Christmas Bazaar

Introduction

Our final event was FairPrice Christmas Bazaar that was held from the 5^th to 9^th of December 2011 at the NYP atrium. There was a variety of products sold at the bazaar. The items include snacks, drinks, books, water bottles, printer and apparels. Although FairPrice did bulk in most of the preparation work, everyone in EMRS still gave their very best in helping their suppliers in selling their booth products.

Pre Event

For this event, EMRS came up with the design of the posters and email blast to raise awareness about the fair among the staff and students of NYP. Before the event, the OICs (Shirley & Hambali) met the FairPrice managers who were in charge of the fair and gave them a tour around the school so that they could do up the floor plan for the fair. The OICs also shared with the FairPrice managers on some of the possible items they can bring down to the fair which will attract the fellow students. Besides that, the OICs also had to allocate manpower based on the requirements given by FairPrice. Despite the lack of time, the OICs managed to complete the entire task given to them by working together effectively.

During Event

On the first day of the event, all of us had to help unpack the products and place them on the wagons provided. There were a total of 133 wagons to be set up!

The first day of the fair was one of the busiest crowds we have had for the 5 days held. Take a look at what happened.

We even held a lucky draw contest which is entitled to customers who spend $15 and above in a single receipt will get a chance to spin the lucky wheel!

As Christmas is coming, we also had a booth for customers who are interested to pre-order Christmas spreads for this important occasion!

  

On the 3^rd and 4^th day, our supervisors decided to create shifts. There was the morning shift and afternoon shift. Shirley was in charge of the morning shift while Hambali took charge of the afternoon shift. Everyone was happy with the shifts as we could take turns to work instead of having to stand at the Atrium for the whole day!

Final Day

On our final day, we had an early pack up which started at about 4pm. Our suppliers arrived early and needed help with packing up so all of us helped one another to pack up even though some were not our individual suppliers. We worked together as one and managed to finish packing up by 5.15pm!

The FairPrice Christmas Bazaar was a successful event. Our OICs’ aimed for a target of $15,000 for 5 days and we managed to exceed the target! The FairPrice managers were so thrilled that they gave us 8 tubs of Haagen Daz Ice Cream, Cornetto Ice Cream Cones and goodie bags as a form of reward. We enjoyed our last event very much and felt very privileged to be given an opportunity working with FairPrice.

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