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Thursday 2 October 2008
 Experiencing the Real World

New student interns join the PETA team in Bangkok to have a taste of what it is like in the real working world.

Yet another round of interns have joined the team in PETA, where they will be assisting in the 4th Mekong Performing Arts Laboratory to be held later this year.

Raewyn Koh and Sheereen Teo hail from Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) in Singapore . They have joined PETA as part of their five-month Overseas Industrial Attachment Programme (OIAP). The Industrial Attachment Programme (IAP) is a compulsory semester that all Year 3 Mass Communication (MCM) students go through. The girls are two of six specially chosen students to have their IAP overseas.

The process of choosing two interns to join the PETA Team was given to the liaison officer, James Sharpe, back in Singapore . Rounds of short-listing and interviews finally brought forth Raewyn and Sheereen – two girls deemed capable of working in this establishment.

The IAP gives students a chance to get to know the “real working world”. Companies offer specially designed training programmes that will help students hone the media practitioner skills they have acquired over the three years of studying Mass Communication.

PETA is no different. Working with Lea Espallardo, their supervising officer, Raewyn and Sheereen will learn how to organise a large-scale event during the Mekong Performing Arts Laboratory. Not only that, they will also be provided opportunities in writing, designing and working with some of the best performing artists from the greater Mekong sub-region.


Profiles



Raewyn (Rae) is a 19-year-old Third Year MCM student. She has never lived this far away from home for such a long period of time and she looks forward to the five-months in Bangkok & Chiang Mai, Thailand and maybe Manila , Philippines .

Rae took the Broadcast & Journalism route during her electives semester earlier this year. She majored in Television Journalism, Print Journalism and Advanced Radio Production. She joined PETA in hopes of rekindling her passion for performing arts, something she was heavily involved in back in secondary school.

She hopes this experience will teach her more about Events Planning, a career she would like get into after graduation.
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Sheereen, Rae’s classmate from MCM has great skills in organising and planning events. She was president and secretary in her two co-curricular activities, Film and Media Studies Agents (FMSA) and Sailing. The FMSA is a student council group that promotes the media courses in NP through open houses and tours.

A “people’s person”, Sheereen took on electives that would allow her to interact with people from different walks of life. Public Relations, Print Journalism and Presentation Skills in Chinese were natural choices for her.

Sheereen wants to get better at planning events and hopes that the knowledge she gains from PETA will help her pick the right job in the future.

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