CCAs

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Zhi Xiang

Well, in TP, there are a lot of CCAs for you to choose from, unlike secondary schools where there are only a few choices.

The CCAs are mainly divided into 3 main categories, the first of which is the usual sports clubs such as football, basketball and track and field; the arts and culture clubs such as band and chior and interest groups such as the Japanese Culture Group, the Microsoft  Student Community and Visual Central(photography club). There are also academic studies clubs which organise events for their respective school instead of giving academic advice to the students, so if you’re in GET, this means that you are in the IIT school and that automatically makes you a member of the IITSC, though you will still need to apply to be in the sub committee. There is also the student union, which generally helps to make things better for students in the campus.

It is not compulsory to have a CCA in TP, but it is generally recommended if you’re thinking of going to a university after you graduate from poly as having a CCA gives you SEAL(Service,Enrichment,Achievement,Leadership) points which gives you an advantage when applying for a university.

For me, I’m in Visual Central, which takes photos for TP in TP events like the Pol-ITE games as well as TPRawks and the TP Open House.

If you really want to take a CCA, I would advise you to take a CCA that you have an interest in or doesn’t consume too much time because time will be at a premium once projects and assignments arrive. (that would be if you cannot cope with assignments and projects.)

The full list of CCAs in TP can be found here.

Zhi Xiang

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One Response

  1. Dr. Foo CY, on October 28th, 2009 at 2:56 pm Said:

    One of the most fun aspects of tertiary life BTW are the extra-Curricular and campus activities. Some degree of it exists at the Polytechnics where you’ve quite a bit of autonomy to run your events, but it gets even better at University. You get the chance to be in even more profile groups for instance, especially of the issue advocacy types.

    For those Poly students eyeing the local Universities, staying on campus will be one of your most memorable and enjoyable experiences. Myself, I was a hostelite for all my undergraduate years, and I was in the Student Union, publisher for one magazine, editor and writer for several others, captain for a few debating teams, was in organizing comm for a few events, conductor for a choir etc.

    I remember those days better than all the stuff I studied.:)

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