As publicised on our Syincommunity, we held our first Social Entrepreneurship workshop on 8 Aug! 

This was part of our collaborative project with Rotary and Volans, known as the Rotary Youth Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (or RYSEC). RYSEC is a business plan competition (social, of course), and the whole idea of this workshop was to prep potential applicants who were thinking of submitting - but who could use some workshopping on business plan basics. 

For the uninitiated, more on RYSEC here.

A big thank you to our amazing speakers - Elim Chew, Kevin Teo, Sarah Mavrinac, Jack Sim, Steven Lam, Kenny Low. We even had a special spot with Thian from Bloomerang. It seems almost cliche to say, but these guys were really engaging - and dare we say, inspirational.

Special thanks to CHEC our kind venue sponsor - thank you Kenny!

Finally, to our participants, go put the workshop to good use: we are anticipating the great ideas you all talked about - in the form of a business plan! Submissions close Aug 24 so, fasterly ok.

All the best!!

Update on Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 01:58AM by Bernise

Update: Thanks everyone who submitted! We have received very high quality submissions and are now looking towards the practice round on Oct 11. Note: Judging Day is Oct 24 - participants block your diaries!

Yes, we're back safely, with no swine flu (w00t!). We're now consolidating our learning and our experiences, and gearing up to invade schools with our slightly exploded worldviews on sustainable development and social change!

Schools/institutions: If you are interested in having us speak (or run a workshop) at your school, drop us a note at  speaking@syinc.org  with the usual details and any course objectives/requirements we should take note of (if any). We don't (yet) charge for our talks, but you are more than welcome to offer a (optional) donation!

Syinc is participating in the 17th session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (or CSD-17) for short. May 4th - 15th. It's only day 2 today, but things have already been a whirl! 

We've got a small team here: Darren from NYP who's in NS, Kevin from ACS I who's also in NS, Cuilin from Columbia Uni, and me (Bernise). A shoutout to Shaun who was meant to join us too, but (quite unfortunately) got quick sick and is in hospital - get well soon!

You can follow the action through our blog: www.syinc.org/blog

Feel free to get in touch! contactus [at] syinc.org