Screenshot from the 2024 Donor Impact Video (From left, Sarah Loo, Haikal bin Mohamed and Tan Li Ling) Token of Appreciation depicting the Ke Zhong Ting at SUTD GIVING TOWARDS A BETTER WORLD BY DESIGN New Year Donor Appreciation 2024 The New Year Donor Appreciation was held on 2 February 2024 to recognise donors who had shown the University unwavering support. The gathering opened with a casual lunch reception to enable the donors and their beneficiaries to interact and connect. This was followed by a performance by the SUTD Chinese Orchestra, which performed a festive repertoire featuring the guzheng (zither), dizi (flute), erhu (bowed fiddle), dagu (drum), and bo (cymbals), to usher in the Chinese New Year. It was especially meaningful that two of the performers, Crystal Chia, President of SUTD Chinese Orchestra, and Yang Wenxin, a member, were also award recipients. A video showcasing the stories of three other award recipients – Haikal bin Mohamed, Tan Li Ling, and Sarah Loo – showed how the support of our donors had profoundly affected their educational and career trajectories. The Prima – SUTD Scholarship gave Haikal the confidence to settle into SUTD during his Freshmore year with fewer worries, while the Malaysian Community Bursary enabled Li Ling, a Senior in Computer Science and Design (CSD), to focus her energy on her internship, which led her to secure a job offer six months before graduation. Lastly, the SIMPDF Study Award took Sarah’s mind off her tuition fees, such that she was able to dedicate her time to engineering products, one of which won her and her teammates the National Runner-Up placement at the James Dyson Award 2023. To thank donors for their passionate support, our students handcrafted and assembled for each of them a token of appreciation in the form of a wooden and acrylic frame depicting the Ke Zhong Ting (可忠 亭), a pavilion donated in 2009 by Hong Kong actor and director, Mr Jackie Chan. Casual lunch reception before the official Donor Appreciation Ceremony SUTD Chinese Orchestra performing the Dance of the Golden Snake, a staple of the Chinese New Year repertory p. 50 SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN
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