GIIS East Coast Campus hosted the GIIS Real World Challenges Convention (RWCC) 2014 to encourage students to participate in activities on the path of global excellence. Held on January 17, 2014, RWCC had participation from GIIS East Coast Campus, GIIS Queenstown Campus, GIIS Balestier Campus, and GIIS Tokyo Campus students in various events.

The stimulating theme of the event ‘Sustaining Creativity’ gave every student a wonderful chance to demonstrate their highly creative side. The amazing ‘Art Beat’, an art exhibition displayed innovative paintings done by students which were inspired by leading artists from around the world. As a part of RWCC 2014 five competitions were held - Transformation Turncoat, Quality Circle Presentation, Essay Writing, Fashion Show with a difference and an Art competition.

The Real World Challenge Convention started off with great enthusiasm, where contestants

with focused determination braced themselves for tough competition. On the other hand, judges and guests ardently anticipated the flourishing talent in this generation. The first event was the Fashion Show where students from Kindergarten to Class 2 creatively portrayed the components of the physical world through snappy styles and outfits. The next event was the battle of wits known as ‘Turncoat’, where participants surprised the audience with their speedy cognitive skills, high caliber of reasoning on various topics at the spur of the moment and oratorical abilities. Each participant had been given a different topic and that made the speeches very interesting for members in the audience.

Quality Circle Presentation was a key event at RWCC. Proper cleanliness, code of conduct and citizen virtues are essential in every community, and the pressing issues concerning them were delineated in the Quality Circle Presentation, with each team bringing in well-informed and articulated concepts and ideas on the problems gripping

schools and society today. The Essay Writing and Art Competition were pre-judged events. The topic for the Art competition was “The World We Want to Live In” and the topic for the essay writing competition was “Water- Essential Ingredient to Sustainability”.

While the judges were deciding on the winners the audience members remained engaged with a great dance performance by students.

The programme came to an end with the prize distribution where Principal Ms Melissa Maria accompanied by special guests from SPRING Singapore and Ms Smita Wargantiwar awarded all the winners. The jubilant joy of winning and participating filled the entire room.