St Michael tops water Vision contest again
Published on: Thursday, October 02, 2014
KOTA KINABALU: SM St Michael students emerged champion in the Water Vision Competition for the sixth consecutive time. The students namely Jessytha Joseph, Owena Juada, Glenda Ryanne Fredy and Abrahan Ninian Ejin under the guidance of their teacher adviser, Jennifer Asing each brought home a mini iPad as well as a unit of a Water Harvesting System for their school. The Water Vision Competition, which is an annual competition, was organised by the Malaysian Nature Society and the Ministry of Education in collaboration with Coca-Cola Malaysia. Its Excellent Principal, Marie Yong Tik Hua said the group of students as well as Form 5 students had started with the project of water conservation in Kg. Putaton and Kg. Kibabangan.ADVERTISEMENT The students in this year's project chose to help the communities who faced serious water problems which include broken gravity system, old and poorly maintained piping system, flash floods, water pollution and the lack of awareness on water conservation and preservation."They worked with the community by developing a tagal system and beautified the area through gotong-royong activities. They also did a water reservoir, repaired the gravity pipe at the villages as well as donated 20 rain harvesting tanks," Yong said.According to her, they had also submitted their participation to the national competition and the students were shortlisted to attend the winning camp in Pulau Langkawi for the prize giving ceremony as well as an environmental camp.Jennifer also said that she was very proud of her students for their commitment in the project. ADVERTISEMENT "This year we did a bigger project and there were no allocations given to us. The team had to look for sponsors and donations to support the project's costs," she said, adding the post mortems they used to have also helped them improvise throughout the competition.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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She also said that the project is ongoing and they did it not because of wanting to win but to instill awareness about water conservation among the students and community. One of the students, Jessytha said that they did not expect to win in the competition as the other schools had also done a good job.
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"We are very happy as we think that all the hard work we put into this project is worth it," she said, adding that staying up till wee hours, sleeping over at their teacher's house as well as staying back after school were part of their sacrifices made in making the project a success.