Saturday, October 1, 2016

Australia Week-Good Onya Mate! (Sem2, 2016)

On 2nd September 2016, Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) organized an event called Good Onya Mate! in the conjunction with Australia Week. Good Onya Mate meant well done friends. Australia Week is one of the major events that happens every year in Sunway University supported by Australia University Programme (AUP) with the collaboration with Australian High Commission Malaysia. The objective of this event is to create a platform and promote the Australia culture in Sunway University to let student have more understanding about Australia through fun facts and local dialects in Australia.
Highlight of the event 
Interesting Facts of Australia
Good Onya Mate! have two interesting activity at their booth on the event day. One of the activity was Interesting Facts of Australia which exhibits about fun facts of Australia. The purpose of this activity is to let people know more about Australia in the aspect of Cultural, People, Geography, Animal, and Ecosystem through the fun facts. One of the example in geographical aspect is Australia is the 6th largest country in the world.


Organizing team used interactive and fun way by putting the facts inside cardboard where it can be pulled out to show the answer.


Aussie Slang Challenge

Purpose of Aussie Slang Challenge is to test student’s knowledge about the local lingo in Australia. The team conducted this activity by preparing 60 pieces of forms containing 10 questions, with 3 different sets of questions. Question inside will be dialect that are normally used in Australia. Every participants will be given door gift when they participate in this game. 
Organizing team had prepared 3 prizes to encourage students to participate in our event and to test their knowledge. The response from Aussie Slang Challenge was unexpected as students actively participated in our activity. We were glad that we managed to attract so many of students to participate. 

At 5pm of the event day, the team has chosen top 3 winners according to their marks awarded after checking and verification. The champion was Siow Chun Ming, 1st runner up was be Eng Pei Huan and 2nd runner up went to Suriya A/L Rogunathan. 

It was indeed a very fun and interesting day as we believe we managed to bring fun and cheer elements to students while they are all stressed out with studies. We believe that every one of us definitely have more understanding about Australia through this Good Onya Mate event. Thank you again from all of us and hope to see you guys in the next event organized by us, SCSC! :)

Written by: Sow Jun Ming

Edited by: Ong June Min & Tan Soon Liang, Bryan

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