ANNEX A

OVERVIEW OF H3ROES

At the end of the 5 days training session, the 77 H3ROES are organised into 9 teams where each team will embark on 1 outreach project. They can choose to conduct the outreach on a school-wide level or a community-wide level that must fulfill 4 basic requirements.

1. School wide or Community wide INVOLVEMENT Project 2. Can be easily replicated throughout in other schools and communities 3. Outreach to at least 1000 people 4. Measurable and Sustainable Project

Participating Schools:

1. Secondary School 12. Hwa Chong Institution 2. Bukit View Secondary School 13. Junyuan Secondary School 3. Cedar Girls School 14. Nan Hua High School 4. CHIJ Secondary () 15. North View Secondary School 5. Chong Boon Secondary School 16. Outram Secondary School 6. ChristChurch Secondary School 17. Raffles Institution 7. Clementi Town Secondary School 18. River Valley High School 8. Commonwealth Secondary School 19. Secondary School 9. Dunman High School 20. St. Andrew’s Secondary School 10. Dunman Secondary School 21. St. Nicholas Girls’ School 11. East Spring Secondary School 22. Yuhua Secondary School

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H3ROES Training Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2

3 4 56 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

October October 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Orientation 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 Camp Camp Camp 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Showcase* Showcase* Strategy 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

November November ELD3RS Council 28 29 30

December 2011 to April 2012 Project Planning and implementation by Teams of students

February 2012 Project Sharing Sessions by the Teams and a Team of Judges from NGOs and Interest Groups

May To June 2012 Shortlisting of Teams- Presentation of Projects by the Teams to a Panel of Judges

June 2012 There will be presentation ceremony for the 77 student leaders. Top 3 teams will be recognized and awarded

Moving Forward

Projects implemented by schools will be branded under the ‘Thank You for Recycling’ Campaign 2012.

June 2012 Onwards

H3ROES Schools will continue to implement the projects, collaborating with other schools to replicate similar practices. These schools will continue to compete with each other their outreach projects in the form of an annual competition. Alumni from H3ROES 2011 will also be involved in the designing of H3ROES 2012. They will take the lead to design and implement the 5 days training Camp for the newly elected H3ROES Schools and Student Leaders. Monthly Regular Networking/ Bonding Sessions are also pertinent to sustaining and building the strength of Alumni.

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H3ROES, who have graduated from secondary schools and progressed to tertiary institutions, will join the ‘Thank You for Recycling’ Youth Committee. ‘Thank You for Recycling’ Youth Committee will be made up of youth leaders from tertiary institutions. (JC, Poly and ITE) This group of youths will be organizing nationwide waste minimization and management initiatives.

H3ROES Modules

In order to prepare students for the road towards becoming H3ROES, a selection of important H3ROES modules are highlighted here to provide more information on what the students can expect.

Environmental Knowledge

Students will gain an understanding to the concepts behind the waste minimization and management and why there is a need for waste minimization and management. This module will also touch upon the history of waste minimization and management and the successes and failures of recycling.

Balik Kampung

Through this module, students will gain an understanding of the kampung spirit and sustainability principles through application of experiential learning to environmental understanding. By the end of the session, students should be able to gain an appreciation of our relationship and dependence on the natural environment.

Leadership and Communications Training

This module is meant to strengthen bonds between students, as well as enable them to communicate and collaborate effectively. Exercises will focus on group work and skills in communications, delegation and leadership will be developed.

Outreach Experience

Students will prepare and share their findings on the successes and failures in historic environmental engagement and outreach around the world. Students will build a solid foundation in the skills and tools needed to reach out to the public on environmental issues.

Social Media for Social Change

This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the intricacies of how a social media campaign engages the public. Students will also walk away with a good understanding of their individual strength and weaknesses.

Strategy Planning: Design Thinking Experienced

This module helps students to orientate thinking and decision-making, and is an important skill that is applicable to all areas of life. This helps students to achieve creative strategies appropriate for their target audience.

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ELD3RS Council

ELD3RS Council is a one day workshop held for H3ROES’ ELD3RS, where concepts learnt during Orientation, Camp and Strategy Planning by the students will be introduced to teachers. This is an essential step to creating student leaders in the environment arena, as school and teachers support is the key to encourage student to proactively plan outreach programmes.

Teachers will be able to keep in touch with the students’ learning through this intensive workshop, guide and assist students in refining and executing the school or community-based programmes. The workshop will also provide teachers with supporting resources that will help in successfully carrying out future environmental programmes with their students.

Should the teachers encounter any issues during the outreach programme, continuous support will be provided by Chris Jensen, Leader Trainer.

H3ROES Training Schedule

Time Activity 9.15AM Waste management and 3Rs Orientation 10.45AM Canon Photography Workshop 27th Oct 1.30PM Social Media Workshop 3.30PM Team Bonding 8.30AM Pitching Tents 1st Day of 10.30AM Balik Kampung Activities H3ROES 2.00PM Outreach Experienced Bootcamp 2.30PM SMART Workshop nd 2 Nov 4.00PM Outreach Experienced Preparation 8.00PM Campfire & Storytelling 6.30AM Nature Appreciation 2nd Day of 9.00AM Team Collaboration H3ROES 10.00AM 3Rs Experienced Bootcamp 2.00PM Outreach Experienced Preparation 3rd Nov 3.00PM Outreach Experienced Presentation 8.00PM Nature Walk 6.30AM Nature Appreciation 3rd Day of 9.00AM Team Collaboration H3ROES 10.00AM Strike Tents Bootcamp 11.30AM Reflection on H3ROES journey 4th Nov 2.00PM Programme development – consolidating strategies 3.00PM Social Media Outreach Session 9.00AM Introduction to Strategy Planning H3ROES 9.15AM Strategy Planning Workshop Strategy 10.45AM Plan Community Outreach 12th Nov 4.20PM Presentation H3ROES 9.00AM Balik Kampung Activities Strategy 12.00PM Environmental Resources and Teaching Tools 12th Nov 2.30PM Strategy Planning Framework

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H3ROES Trainers

Training sessions will be facilitated by experienced leaders in the fields of environment, the arts and social media with the aim to produce versatile and engaging programmes for the students.

Chris Jensen – Lead Trainer

In the last year as a Senior Executive with ECO , Chris has developed a deep understanding of sustainability education.

Chris's experience in education includes workshops on speech and communications for secondary students, INSEAD staff and students, and training youth delegates to the United Nations, 16th conference of parties to UNFCCC.

Most recently, Chris has prepared an environmental education programme on waste and energy consumption which will be reaching over 20,000 primary and secondary students in the second half of 2011.

A first class honours graduate of LASALLE College of the Arts, Chris is deeply excited about creating opportunities to enable young leaders to effectively communicate and rally masses to their social mission.

Tay Lai Hock – Camp Leader

Lai Hock is the Founder and President of non-profit organisation – Ground- Up Initiative (www.groundupinitiative.org) – that promotes environmental awareness and responsible practices by encouraging more people to get in touch with the land.

He is also the Development Director of the Countryside Association (www.kranjicountryside.com), helping to raise the profile and awareness of the Kranji countryside area as a recreational and educational venue.

Lai Hock has backpacked extensively in Africa, the Middle East, North America, South America, New Zealand and Asia in the last 20 years and more. The range of people and personalities he has met, and the depth of their interactions with him, awakened the knowledge that there is a way to make a difference in his own, and in other people’s lives.

Being an active volunteer in the social scenes since 1980, Lai Hock has been working especially with the youth; and focused on the area of humanitarian and environmental issues in the last 10 years. Independently, he led and managed humanitarian projects in Mongolia, China and three flood relief missions in Southern Malaysia. He also led students to Chiang Mai to work with Thai NGOs as well as delivered motivational sessions to prison inmates in Singapore.

He served as an Advisor in Public Relations, Projects and Training as well as an Event Manager at Kampung Senang (2003 – 2006), a charity organisation in Singapore that provides support to cancer patients and other holistic cares and programmes for a greener world.

Lai Hock believes that by connecting with the land, we are able to reconnect with our true spirit. And it is through how we live, eat and relate to people that it becomes possible to contribute to society and live a harmonious life as whole.

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Aseem Thakur – Social Media

Aseem K Thakur is the co-founder of Singapore's leading online fundraising platform, GIVE.sg, which allows individuals and communities to raise funds for their charitable causes in a simple, fun and effective way.

He is a graduate from National University of Singapore and attended Stanford University for a year on an entrepreneurship program. While in Silicon Valley, Aseem worked at a bio-medical device start-up where he co-invented two patents. Aseem is passionate about entrepreneurship and using it to create huge impact.

James Norris – Strategy Planning

James started his entrepreneurial journey at 6 years old while seeing firsthand the effects of injustice. Since then he’s founded or established 16 organizations, clubs, and social enterprises (and 7 micro-businesses), many of which were focused on creating social good. And he’s worked, volunteered or consulted for dozens more.

James graduated from the University of Texas with 3 majors, 4 minors, and 2 programs. He is fascinated by social innovation, social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, personal development, positive psychology, social psychology, and ethics.

Currently he’s helping Project Polymath build a new type of university where self-directed, interdisciplinary learning will be the norm.

James is also trying to spark a movement for effective personal growth through his newest social enterprise, Self Spark. He believes self-actualization is a human right that everyone deserves. And he thinks that cultivating a wave of self-actualization may be possible through scalable, science-based interventions.

James has previously conducted design thinking workshops for youth non-profit Syinc and for Secondary Schools in Singapore.

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