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WEP Previews ’22: Business Leaders Programme

Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Shawn Yip (22A01B)

If you’re interested in banking, capital markets, social entrepreneurship, investments, venture capital or even the allure of Wall Street, then the Raffles Business Leaders Programme is for you. Here, we learn and gain experience for both the front-end and back-end processes of operating a business; are given opportunities to participate in business-related competitions organised by Universities, banks and finance-related organisations; get to showcase our year’s work at the Raffles Business Symposium; and bounce ideas around a group of like-minded and highly driven individuals. 

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WEP Previews ’22: Chemistry Olympiad

Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Chemistry Olympiad Members

Do you want to find out how chemistry shapes the world around us? (hint, it’s a hexagon) 

Are you interested in finding out how hydrogen can form two covalent bonds?

If your passion for chemistry combusts spontaneously, Chemistry Olympiad is just for you!

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WEP Previews ’22: Peer Helpers Programme

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By Joy Lim Wei Ting (22S03R), Chairperson

Welcome to the sneak preview of the Peer Helpers Programme (PHP), a Wednesday enrichment programme from 1pm–3pm! You must be thinking hard on which enrichment programme to join given the numerous options out there, with only 1 choice to be made. If you are very passionate about helping others and serving your school community, then PHP is the enrichment programme for you. 

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WEP Previews ’22: Ecological Literacy Programme (Eco-Lit)

Reading Time: 3 minutes

By the Ecolitters

‘Look closer, look longer, look harder’. 

Since the first session, this tagline has been brought up repeatedly by our teacher mentors, Mr Tan Sijie and Mrs Aileen See. Encapsulating the main essence of the Ecological Literacy Programme, also fondly referred to as ‘Eco-Lit’, this tagline encourages our members to observe the world around them, and to notice and experience the beauty of the world’s flora and fauna. 

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WEP Previews ’22: Raffles Water and Environment Sustainability Programme

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By Yeong Yi Heng (22S03J)

When you see the words “Water” and “Environment”, what do you think of? Lush greens and pristine river waters, or do you picture polluted oceans and disposal sites cluttered with waste? Raffles Water and Environment Sustainability Programme, or RWESP for short is not any run-of-the-mill environmental awareness club. Instead, it has a heavy focus on research for the betterment of water quality and the environment as a whole. Through RWESP, students are given the opportunity to learn, innovate and solve issues that have an impact on society whether in the heartlands or on the other side of the globe. 

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