THE ROTARACT CLUB OF PENANG

THE ROTARACT CLUB OF PENANG THE ROTARACT CLUB OF AIMST UNIVERSITY THE ROTARACT CLUB OF SENTRAL COLLEGE PENANG RAC Penang Page 1 of 18

BEST ROTARACT AWARENESS REPORT 45TH DISTRICT 3300 ROTARACT CONFERENCE RY 2013/14 PENANG HERITAGE 10 th 12 th January 2014 Prepared by: Nicholas Goh Secretary 45th District 3300 Rotaract Conference RAC Penang Page 2 of 18

Executive Summary ROTARACT CLUB OF PENANG CITY Rotaract is a Rotary-sponsored service club for young men and women ages 18 to 30. Rotaract clubs are either community or university based, and they re sponsored by a local Rotary club which makes them a true "partners in service" and key members of the Rotary family. Today, there are over 700 Rotaractors in 24 active Rotaract clubs in Rotaract District 3300. One of the annual activities that is carried out in District Rotaract D3300 is the District Rotaract Conference. Therefore, the Rotaract Club of Penang, AIMST University and Sentral College of District 3300, Malaysia hosted the 45th District Rotaract Conference RY 2013/14 (45thDRC2014) in Penang. The theme for the 45th DRC 2014 was "Penang Heritage", where we introduced Penang island s rich history to the participants through the activities and team building games that we ve prepared. The conference held in Penang was also an opportunity for the participants to escape from their daily routine and enjoy the serenity of the island. Details of Project i) Name of Project: 45th District Rotaract Conference RY 13/14 ii) Date: 10th - 12th January 2014 (Friday - Sunday) iii) Venue: 1926 Heritage Hotel Penang iv) Theme: Penang Heritage v) No. Participants: 103 participants Objectives The objective of this conference is to empower the participants with knowledge and skills to prepare them to face challenges that they will encounter during community service. We also wish to improve the fellowship and bonding among the participants through various team building activities. To diversify the network of Rotaract by inviting guest from various avenue such as RYLA-ians, university students as well as working adults to join our conference so as to promote Rotaract Awareness. RAC Penang Page 3 of 18

Committee Members ROTARACT CLUB OF PENANG CITY Name Ning Wan Jo Kirath Sidhu Aaron Lee Cheryl Ooi, Jia Jun & Nicholas Shea Speare & Lionel Xue Ying, Sye Li & Yee Kah Raymond Goh & Lok Hong Putt Yoke Yin Fiona Wu Nirel Kaur & Hui Zhen Calysta Tay Jimmy Chai Harveena Jia Xin Firdaus Designation Organizing Chairperson Co-organizing Chairperson Co-organizing Chairperson Secretary Treasurer Program Director Accommodation and F&B Souvenirs Booklet Sponsorship Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Participating Rotaract / Rotary Clubs: No. Rotaract Clubs No of Participants 1 Rotaract Club of AIMST University 8 2 Rotaract Club of Ampang 10 3 Rotaract Club of Advanced Tertiery College (ATC) 14 4 Rotaract Club of Bangsar 2 5 Rotaract Club of Gombak 1 6 Rotaract Club of Kelana Jaya 3 7 Rotaract Club of Klang 6 8 Rotaract Club of Penang 18 9 Rotaract Club of Pudu 7 10 Rotaract Club of Raffles City, Singapore 1 11 Rotaract Club of SeGi Kuala Lumpur 3 12 Rotaract Club of Sentral College Penang 10 13 Rotaract Club of Subang 7 14 Rotaract Club of Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) 7 15 Rotaract Club of Cherating 1 16 Rotary Club of Bandar Utama 1 17 Guest 3 TOTAL 102 Participating Rotary Club as VIPs i) Rotary Club of Penang ii) Rotary Club of Seberang Jaya iii) Rotary Club of Tanjung Bungah iv) Rotary Club of Ampang v) Rotary Club of Kuala Lumpur West RAC Penang Page 4 of 18

Accounts Item Expenses (RM) Payment for Hotel (Hotel 1926) 26,870.00 Saturday Lunch 950.00 T-Shirt 2,882.00 Button Pin (badge) 300.00 Souvenir Plaque (VIP) 118.00 Booklet Print Out 360.00 Station Card 20.00 Colour Printed Name Tag 30.60 Snacks 155.80 Bus 400.00 Cendol 140.00 Joss Stick 150.00 Garland Maker 120.00 Little India Shop 43.70 Prizes 500.00 Spray & Wooden staff 37.00 Photostat 56.40 Lanyard 151.00 Balloons 42.00 Utilities & Stationeries 23.00 Tambun Biscuit 98.00 Certificate 178.00 TOTAL EXPENSES 33,625.5 Item Income (RM) Participation Fees 28,720.00 Sponsorship -RC Penang 1,500.00 Sponsorship-RC Tanjung Bungah 1,000.00 Sponsorship- RC Seberang Jaya 1,000.00 Sponsorship -GT Pile Dynamics 300.00 Sponsorship -Ning Mechanical & Trading 300.00 Sponsorship -Lok Heng Hardware & Trading 300.00 Sponsorship -Lennard 300.00 Sponsorship -UP Properties 300.00 Sponsorship -Jspy Technologies 151.00 TOTAL INCOME 33,871.00 NET PROFIT (Total Income - Total Expenses) 245.50 RAC Penang Page 5 of 18

Itinerary of the 45th District Rotaract Conference RY 13/14 Day 1- Friday (10th January 2014) Time Program 3:00 pm Registration 5:00pm 7:00pm 8:30pm 9:30pm 10:30pm Check In + Free & Easy Dinner Opening Ceremony Team Building Lights Out Day 2- Saturday (11th January 2014) 7:00am Breakfast 8:30am Briefing for The Heritage Trail (THT) 9:00am Begin THT 12:00pm Lunch 1.00pm Continue with THT 5:00pm Back to hotel 7:00pm Grand dinner at Hotel pool side 10:30pm Fellowship & Lights out Day 3- Sunday (12th January 2014) 8:00am Breakfast 9:30am Plenary session 1 10:15am Plenary session 2 11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm Prize giving Closing Ceremony Lunch 1:30pm 2 nd District Board meeting RY 2013/2014 3:00pm Sayonara RAC Penang Page 6 of 18

Photos of the 45th District Rotaract Conference RY 13/14 DAY 1 (10th January 2014) Opening Ceremony- 103 participants Opnrrrr attended with Rotarians District Governor Dato' Mohinder giving his speech DG Dato' Mohinder declaring the 45th DRC opened VIPs of the evening: (from left to right) Co-OC Kirath, OC Jo, PP Sherlin, PP Aikky Tan, PP Ronnie Tan, DG Dato Mohinder, AG Paul, DRC PP Robin Tay, President Dato Tan, President Ricky Ch ng, PP Bryan Chua and Co-OC Aaron Lee RAC Penang Page 7 of 18

The Black Market Game A wonderful Team building game Trade Market Participants promoting their product Debriefing of the Black Market Game Scissors, Paper, Stone (New Version) RAC Penang Page 8 of 18

DAY 2 (11th January 2014) ROTARACT CLUB OF PENANG CITY Briefing for the Heritage Trail activitiy Boarding the bus to head to the destination Garland maker Station Mahamariamman Temple station Joss stick maker station RAC Penang Page 9 of 18

Galak Panjang station Group G & H Group H Group F found a clue! Solving a puzzle The Odeon Junction station RAC Penang Page 10 of 18

The Power Ranger shot The Best Friends Forever shot The Flying Kick shot The Marry Poppins shot The Earth shaker flying shot The St. George's Jumping shot station RAC Penang Page 11 of 18

Lunch at Sentral College 12th Floor - 360 Bird's Eye View of Georgetown Wall Art Mural Art RAC Penang Page 12 of 18

The Goddess of Mercy Temple station Chowrasta Market station Cendol Station - Enjoying their Cendol We're THIS CLOSE to ending Polio Dinner Time!!! VIP Table Winners of The Heritage Trail RAC Penang Page 13 of 18

Token of Appreciation to President Ricky, DRC Robin, President Dato' Tan & Miss Gillian Performance by Aaron & Firdaus Dancing game by couples of the night The organizing committee RAC Penang Page 14 of 18

DAY 3 (12th January 2014) ROTARACT CLUB OF PENANG CITY Plenary Session 1 - Career as an Auctioneer Token of appreciation to Rtn. Stephen Soon Plenary Session 2 - Why Youths should chase their dreams Co-OC Kirath giving his speech District Rotaract Representative Chiew Ee gave her closing remarks & officially close the 45th DRC RAC Penang Page 15 of 18

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Summary of the 45th District Rotaract Conference RY 2013/14 Months of Planning, weeks of preparation and days of sleepless night had lead us to the one day we Northerners look forward to - the 45th District Rotaract Conference (DRC) 2014. The reason why we northerners were so eager for the day to come was because we, the Rotaract Club of Penang, AIMST University and Sentral College were the host of this annual district event. 10th of January 2014 was the day the 45th DRC began in Penang. It all started with the registration counter being open at 3 pm at the 1926 Heritage Hotel. There weren't many people who came and register at the beginning but towards the later part of the evening, participants from different parts of Malaysia started pouring in. Dinner was served at 7 pm and followed by the Opening ceremony at 8.30 pm. We were really honored because the opening ceremony was attended by our respected District Governor Dato' Mohinder Singh, Assistant Governor Paul, District Rotaract Chairman PP Robin Tay, President Tan Gin Soon of RC Penang, President Ricky Ch'ng of RC Tanjung Bungah, PP Bryan Chua of RC Seberang Jaya and most of the participants of the 45th DRC DG Dato' Mohinder gave an inspiring speech and also challenged the Rotaractors to continue being a Rotarian after their service has ended in Rotaract. This night was followed by an extremely interesting team building game known as 'The Black Market'. Participants were segregated into groups and had to work together to make the most profit. 1st day of DRC ended at 11.30 pm where most participants retired early due to tiredness from traveling. Day 2 of DRC (11th of January 2014) started off with an early breakfast at 7.00 am. Then came the highlight of the 45th DRC which was the Heritage Trail. Since the 45th DRC was carried out in Penang and the theme was 'Penang Heritage', we had decided to let the participants experience the beauty & uniqueness of Penang first hand. The Heritage Trail was a specially designed team building game that required the participants to travel in groups from one station to another. What makes it unique is that when a participant reaches the particular station, they will have to perform certain task which is closely related to the landmark. The participants started their journey at 8.30 am via bus to their first station. There were a total of 10 stations involved throughout the Heritage Trail and the participants had to go through them all. One of it was the Mahamariamman temple (oldest Hindu temple in Penang) where the participants had to identify the weapons of the Hindu deities. There was also garland and joss stick maker station where girls were thought on how to make a garland of Jasmine flowers while the guys got to learn how to make joss sticks from an uncle who had 60 years experience in making joss sticks. At the Goddess of Mercy temple station, participants were suppose to observe the postures of the deities in there and demonstrate it to the game masters while at the St. George's Church (oldest Anglican church in Southeast Asia) station, participants were requested to perform a series of jumping shots to move on to the next station. Lunch was served at Sentral College Hall where the participants had a 360 bird's eye view of the whole of Georgetown. After lunch, participants proceeded to the next half of the Heritage Trail. At the Friendship park station, participants played a team battle game known as Galak Panjang while at the Odeon T-junction station (used to have a Trem line) participants had to arrange a puzzle where the clue can be found on some memorial plaque at the station. We also had stations at Little India station where the participants to make purchases using only Tamil. At the RAC Penang Page 17 of 18

famous Chowrasta market, participants were asked to read out fluently a text regarding Rotaract in different foreign languages. Finally, the last station was the famous Cendol station where participants had a team battle to see who can obtain the most 'correct answers' in a series of Rotaract & general knowledge question. Upon completing the task, each participant was rewarded with a mouth-watering Cendol. After completing the Heritage Trail, everyone headed back to the hotel to prepare for the grand pool side dinner at night. The grand pool side dinner started at 8pm where everyone had their buffet dinner accompanied with live performance by Rotarators from various clubs. There was also a 'Couple of the Night' game where 3 couples compete among each other in terms of cat walk and dancing. During the dinner itself, the winners of the Heritage Trail was announced. The group with 3rd placing walked away with a set of mini speakers each while the runner-up got a 8GB Toshiba pendrive each. The winner of the Heritage Trail was group B where everyone in the group got a 16GB Toshiba pendrive as the prize. The dinner ended at 10.30 but for we Rotaractors, the fellowship was only just about to begin. 12th January 2014 marked the third and last day of the 45th DRC. The day started with a session by the guest speaker, Rotarian Stephen Soon who shared with everyone on the career of an Auctioneer. It was a very interesting talk as most of the participants had never come across a person who's occupation is an auctioneer. This was followed by a sharing session by a speaker from Youths Today who spoke on 'Why Youths should chase and never give up their dreams'. The talk inspired many to not give up on their dreams and continue pursuing it. Finally, it was time for the closing ceremony. District Rotaract Representative Kwong Chiew Ee gave her closing remarks and thanked the organizer for the great job of organizing the conference before hitting the bell to mark the end of the 45th District Rotaract Conference. Everyone adjourned for lunch before saying their goodbyes. In just a matter of 3 short days, the 45th District Rotaract Conference had come to an end. However, we were all very happy and satisfied despite of the tiredness because of the wonderful feedbacks that the participants had given us. Knowing that the participants had a memorable conference at Penang, we as the organizers have only smiles on our faces because we know that all those sleepless nights had finally paid off. Prepared by: Nicholas Goh Wei Lik Secretary 45th District 3300 Rotaract Conference 2014 RAC Penang Page 18 of 18