Bandar Sunway, Selangor – After three months of pitting their wits and wiles against each other, Team FUXION was finally declared the winner of the first Sunway Apprentice Challenge. Ng Eu Ken was named The Best Speaker, while Paul Ngu Wei Lik was awarded the Sunway Apprentice Individual Award for being the best overall participant.
Organised by Sunway University College (Sunway) and sponsored by Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad (Alliance Bank), the Sunway Apprentice Challenge aims to expose students to the world of entrepreneurship and leadership by introducing a series of real-life work experiences in a simulated environment.
“We believe that the Sunway Apprentice Challenge presented us with a novel opportunity to identify and nurture promising talents. Through this exercise, participants were allowed to explore and experience real-life working environment with all dues, while demonstrating the Bank’s values of creativity, conviction, resilience, integrity and caring,” said Datuk Bridget Lai, Group Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad and Director of Alliance Financial Group Berhad.
Elizabeth Lee, Executive Director of Sunway University College said, “The peak of the Sunway Apprentice Challenge brought about greater level of difficulty incorporating real business case study hosted by Alliance Bank. The case study presented a simulation of real-life business scenarios, of which participants were challenged to think out-of the-box, apply business strategies, financial, marketing as well as operational knowledge. I was pleased to note our students were able to put their University learning to practice and soar at a challenge that required them to step out from their role as a student and respond as a professional at work.”
During the third and final challenge, participants were given an actual business case study by Alliance Bank. Each team had 3.5 hours to work out the kinks of the case study in the areas of finance, marketing, sales and operations, before presenting their findings and solution to a panel of judges from Sunway and Alliance Bank the next morning, who questioned them closely on their presentations. Each team was judged based on the best presentation in terms of substance and logic, presentation skills, creativity and overall performance.
Organisers decided to add a new twist to the Challenge at the last minute when they changed the composition of the teams, thereby adding stress to the teams’ dynamics.
The jubilant new TEAM FUXION received RM2,500.00 cash in total, while Ng Eu Ken, The Best Speaker, won RM500.00. Paul Ngu Wei Lik, who won The Sunway Apprentice Individual Award for being the best overall participant, took home RM1,500.00, a plaque and a conditional* offer to join the prestigious Alliance Young Executive Programme upon graduation.
Earlier on, both teams had the rare opportunity to play the role of property magnates when they traded real-estate on the life-size property trading game, ‘Saidina’, during Challenge 2. Both teams also presented a business proposal each to promote and market the Sunway’s Student Services Department during Challenge 1. TEAM FUXION also emerged as winners for both challenges.
* On condition of the student earning a second class honours or a CGPA of 3.0.
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