Last Day, TARUC’s students Registered Be Sea Turtles Hero!

Yesterday was the last day of our wonderful campaign! Here I would like to express the feeling of how excited we were. During the last day (18^th July 2014) of our event “RING A LIFE”, registration booth was full of people compared with the first and second day. There was insufficient space and pen for the people to fill up their forms due to the large crowd during the event. This is a good learning experience as we can learn how to handle a huge crowd of people. Experience learned can be used in future to improve the campaign. We are really thankful for those TARUC’s students that participate in this meaningful saving sea turtle event. There were huge number of students whom not only participate in the various type of station games but also bring along with their unused gadget for instances laptops, tablets and phones for recycling in order to save sea turtles. There were also several students who are very passionate and participated our event continuously for three days. 

There were a big yellow machine and a big sea turtle stationed at the center of our campaign. It created great awareness for the students who passed by when they go for their breakfast or lunch in canteen 2.

 Ushers play an important roles at that moment! Along with the assistance of the usher’s girls, we managed to attract a lot of people to inquiry about our campaign’s purpose and details. Some students might be confused if they weren’t given a detailed explanation of the campaign, they might question the connection between donating electronic gadgets and saving sea turtles. With the help and support of usher’s girls, we were able to explain to them that Microsoft is donating 1USD to WWF when they had received an old phone for recycling.

Students are required to fill in an evaluation form after they completed all of the six station games. After reviewing most of the evaluation forms, we were glad that we receive a positive feedback from the students. Most of the comments stated that our campaign was full of educational purposes and it was interesting! The only downside was insufficient types of free gifts which can distributed for the winner. The free gifts which encompassed note books, pencil boxes and badges which can be won in different types of stations games. A number of students didn’t want the gifts as they had already got it from the previous stations.

During the last two more hours, the numbers of participants increase rapidly. The registration and evaluation form had already ran out. It is a good sign for our “RING A LIFE” campaign as students is supporting us by donating all their electronic gadgets. Some of them are still willing to return to college and donate their gadgets as they have been informed that our collection session was extended until Saturday (19^th July 2014).

Written by,

Sook Wee