The Arts Anchors

  • At the Lee Kuan Yew Prize Award Ceremony and Banquet 2010, the highlight event on both Singapore International Water Week and World Cities Summit, Amni Musfirah Binte Abdul Rashid sang “What A Wonderful World” accompanied by SOTA string ensemble comprising Shannon Yeo, Cheston Tan, Jocelyn Ng, Ryan Goh, Bettina Hu, Charlotte Ng, Thaddeus Chung, Amy Tan, Calvin Ong. The SOTA string ensemble was conducted by Mr. Lim Soon Lee (Faculty of Music).
  • In the National Chinese Music Competition 2010, Gillian Chong and Koh Cheng Jin clinched the 2nd Prize in the Zhong Ruan Youth Category and Yang Qin Youth Category respectively, and Bennett Bay emerged as the 1st Prize winner in the Suona Open Category.
  • Lee Yun Chai clinched 1st Prize (tie) and Nicolette Chin emerged runner-up in the Youth Category in HarpFest III 2010 competition at the Cempaka International Ladies' College, Malaysia.
  • Visual Arts students, Grace Lim Yun Si and Chan Si Yun conceptualised the Singapore Friendship Fabric Art for the Youth Olympic Games 2010. The preparation of materials and construction of the final artwork were assisted by fellow Visual Arts students - Lee Lip Jiang, Ruth Shirley Janarthanam, Jonathan Tan, Tan Hui Ying, Tan Shee Yin, Low Jo An, Andrew Yip and Denise Nicole Yap.
  • At the 14th Commonwealth Society of Teachers Dancing Summer School in 2010, the following awards were clinched: Level 5 Overall Winner - Venetta Ho; Level 5 Silver - Elaine Ng and Yong Yingxin; Level 6 Overall Winner - Thaddaeus Low; Level 6 Silver - Natalie Lam and Ivan Koh.
  • Natalie Lam En Ru was one of the first two Singaporeans to win an award (the Encouragement Award) at the prestigious American Ballet Competition, Austin, USA, 2010.
  • A drum ensemble comprising Goh Yan Lee, Bennett Bay, Marcus Lam and Lee Yu Ru performed at Youth Performance Night, River Hongbao 2010, a festive Chinese New Year celebratory event whose five key organisers are Singapore Press Holdings, Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations, People’s Association, Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Singapore Tourism Board.
  • Jedd Jong Yue’s Last Meals, emerged runner-up in Theatre Idol 2010, a drama script-writing competition organised by drama company, Action Theatre.
  • Ryan Goh clinched the 2nd Prize in the Senior Category of the DynamicWorkz Competition 2009 - a national schools level music competition organised by arts events company DynamicWorkz and supported by Yamaha; Sarah Ng clinched the Merit Award in the Open Category and Jocelyn Ng was a semi-finalist.
  • Gloria Ee came in 2nd in the Singapore Music Teachers Association's Concert Review writing contest, 2009.
  • Ong Sim was awarded third place in the POMO Sculpture competition 2009. An entry from Bevin Ng and Janel Ang was also selected as one of the finalists. The students were the only pre-tertiary finalists and had their work displayed alongside that of students from LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
  • Amni Musfirah Binte Abdul Rashid was one of the lead singers of the Asian Youth Games 2009 theme song, Asia's Youth, Our Future, at the Games' opening ceremony, and the soloist for its ballad version.
  • At the Asian Youth Games 2009 opening ceremony, Moira Loh and Lydia Lim recorded and performed live the aria by eminent local composer Iskandar Ismail, set to ancient Sanskrit text for the item "Spirit of Evolution".
  • Amni Musfirah Binte Abdul Rashid gave a vocal performance on Getaran Jiwa by P. Ramlee, at the Official Dinner of APEC Finance Ministers' Meeting 2009, hosted by Singapore Minister for Finance, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam and attended by Finance Ministers from APEC’s 21 economies, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and the Presidents of the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
  • Ma Yue Ru and Thaddaeus Low came in 1st and 2nd place respectively at the Dance Gala competition and performance, organised by the Royal Academy of Dance, in conjunction with the prestigious Genee International Ballet Competition. They have been bestowed with the honour of performing their competition items at the Genee International Ballet Competition gala fund-raising dinner in September 2009.

Celebrators of Experimentation, Expression and Discovery

  • In Singapore Mathematical Olympiads Competition 2010, SOTA students scored a total of 2 Bronze and 7 Honourable Mention in the Junior and Senior Categories. Junior Category: Bronze - Megan Janine Augustin; Honourable Mention - Ankita Mukherji, Kong Yin Ying, Shruti, Yeo Zhi Yi, Rachel Chew Min Qi and Sheryl Ang Shi Le; Senior Category: Bronze - Tan Shee Yin; Honourable Mention - Jonathan Tan Song Han.
  • Visual arts students worked in teams to create one-minute flash format videos that clearly articulated the key embodiments of the Lancôme brand in Lancôme Celebrates Creativity: Developing Youth In Arts project, with one winning entry from each thematic category receiving a fully sponsored academic year worth of tuition fees, approximately S$5,000. Emerging tops are Jade Chan Su Hui and Janel Ang Jia En with Believe in Beauty; Bevin Ng Jie Wei and Mariel Chee Wei Lin with Innocence; and Kirti Upadhyaya and Valerie Ng Suying with Amalgamation.
  • Crystle Wee, Victoria Chen, Erica Heng and Lee Fang teamed up to participate in N.E.mation! 4, a competition for youths to express their notions on Total Defence through animation centred around the theme of "Why I Care About Singapore". They emerged as the first runners-up team and walked away with prizes worth $4,000 sponsored by Canon Singapore.
  • Janel Ang clinched the 3rd Prize in the Reflection Youth Photo Competition 2009, organised by the South Zone Excellence Centre for Design in collaboration with the National Geographic Store, Singapore. Janel's entry was chosen among 2,255 entries from 94 secondary and integrated programme schools.