Mentoring by PAMSC

Crystal, Siti, Cheewee. Me, Ruifang, Brendan. Matt and Annie

Last Friday the 21st of August, at 10 a.m. PAMSC hosted an online mentoring session, led by Ar Brendan Tong (PAMSC Education Sub-committee) with co-opted student members from UCTS (University College of Technology, Sibu); Ms. Crystal ak Kulwant (moderator), Ms. Bong Rui Fang, and Mr. Matthias Chia (Graphic and Media Design). The mentors were Past PAMSC Chairman, Ar. Ng Chee Wee and current Vice-chairman, myself. 

The questions were collected earlier from students, graduates (and a few practitioners) to be answered live and to 'start the conversation'. During the online session, more questions were posted and these were answered by the mentors and members of the Education Sub-committee. 

I enjoyed working with the young people, I had reservations earlier about how young they were. In hindsight, I was very mistaken, not only were they mature young adults; they were warm, funny and confident. Furthermore, they represented the target audience of the mentoring session; so in talking to Crystal and answering the questions which she read out - we were also answering the audience. 

Answering the questions with CW was also enjoyable; I sent the compiled questions to him and we took turns answering them; 3 at a time, 4 at a time until they were all accounted for (some with accompanying slides).