{"id":735,"date":"2016-06-01T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T02:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/?p=735"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T02:35:18","slug":"update-from-student-leaders-convention-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/2016\/06\/01\/update-from-student-leaders-convention-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from Student Leaders Convention, Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p>Yesterday was another action-packed\u00a0day for international participants at the <b>Student Leaders Conference<\/b>, Singapore. The morning started with a short trip on the MRT to the <strong>Botanical Gardens<\/strong>, followed by a return bus trip back to the<strong> Hwa Chong Institution<\/strong> for a tour of the amazing facilities, by way of an 7 station &#8216;challenge&#8217; rotation.\u00a0MHJC students then headed back to the MRT to travel for a late lunch at the <strong>Gardens by the Bay<\/strong>, followed by a visit to the spectacular <strong>&#8216;Cloud Forest&#8217; <\/strong>dome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><b>Singapore Botanical Gardens:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbg.org.sg\">https:\/\/www.sbg.org.sg<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p><b>Gardens by the Bay: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardensbythebay.com.sg\/en.html\">http:\/\/www.gardensbythebay.com.sg\/en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p>Today is the first of a three day &#8216;issues-based&#8217; project development focus, with MHJC students being split to work in focus groups with peers from a range of schools, internationally. It is truly impressive to see <strong>Hwa Chong<\/strong> students leading all aspects of the conference to facilitate such high quality <strong>&#8216;globally connected learning!&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">Josh, Alina, Tyla, Katelyn, Hruthin and John are all in good spirits, however are &#8216;feeling the heat&#8217; &#8211; literally!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-737 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-2.10-222x300.png\" alt=\"Day 2.10\" width=\"356\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-2.10-222x300.png 222w, https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-2.10.png 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-738 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-2.15-225x300.png\" alt=\"Day 2.15\" width=\"347\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-2.15-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-2.15.png 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-736 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-2.1-300x160.png\" alt=\"Day 2.1\" width=\"488\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-2.1-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-2.1-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Day-2.1.png 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another action-packed\u00a0day for international participants at the Student Leaders Conference, Singapore. The morning started with a short trip on the MRT to the Botanical Gardens, followed by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/2016\/06\/01\/update-from-student-leaders-convention-singapore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update from Student Leaders Convention, Singapore<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schoolnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhjc.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}