His Royal Highness Prince Hj Al-Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office, presented the APICTA award to Chung Hwa Middle School in the Secondary Category at last night’s APICTA 2012 Awards held at Indera Samudra Hall, The Empire Hotel & Country Club

I remember last June they won the BICTA awards and they showcased their product “Brunei Treasure” during the BICTA 2012 to HRH The Crown Prince. A few months later, the students presented their project to His Majesty the Sultan dan Yang Di-Pertuan at Chung Hwa’s 90th anniversary. From there, His Majesty gave his word of encouragement to the team to win the APICTA 2012 awards and surely this movitated the students to do so. Last night their project was awarded the best in the Secondary School Project category.

Angeline Cheng Lin of Chung Hwa said that they revamped their concept by introducing a mobile app for their Brunei Treasure. Previously it was a computer based software where they presented for BICTA 2012. Hence, they improved their prototype by creating a mobile app for Brunei Treasure. So far, it’s available in Android market and they will be hoping for an IOS version, pending approval.

Derby Teo Nyet Win is the newest member to the team and she couldn’t believe that they won the award. They were able to answer the judges’ comments during the presentation. They thanked their mentors, teachers and those involved in APICTA and BICTA for making their idea a success.

I’m very proud of their achievements and to win an award at APICTA is something huge because you are competing with 11 other countries for the trophy and you guys did Brunei very proud indeed. I hope your victory will inspire more younger generations to follow your footsteps that anything is possible if you believe in your ideas.

Angelien Cheng Lin, Wong Chun Lynn and Derby Teo Nyet Wen with the APICTA Awards last night

The winners with the teachers and mentors from CHMS

Angelien Cheng Lin and Wong Chun Lynn showcased Brunei Treasure to HRH the Crown Prince back in June 2012

 

  

 

Sending off Zira to KL for the 1,000km endurance race

Red Bull Rookies will see Siti Zirwatul Iradah Awg Adinin race in ‘The Battle of the Sexes’ 1,000km endurance race at the Sepang International Circuit She left for Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

During event set to take place from today till Saturday, a men’s team and a women’s team will be battling it out for the RM10,000 grand prize and also to determine which gender possesses the most skillful driving ability.

Zira, as she is affectionately known, is also the sole Brunei participant, chosen over a thousand candidates from Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore to represent the Sultanate. She is also the third racer to ever represent Brunei since the search was inaugurated here in 2010.

This also marks the first time in six years that the Red Bull Rookies have fielded two teams who will compete against each other and solve the age-old question of which gender is the better racecar driver.

Present the Brunei International Airport yesterday to bid farewell and hand over the Red Bull race helmet to Zira was Malcolm Lim, Managing Director of Kingston Beverage & Creamery Sdn Bhd, the distributor of Red Bull drinks in Brunei. Images and text by Nazirul Hakeem.

Zira with Malcolm Lim, Managing Director of Kingston Beverage & Creamery Sdn Bhd, with Zira’s family at the airport yesterday