NE$T competition

On 20 October 2011, the Special Interest Group (SIG) from the Diploma in Financial Business Informatics (FBI)organized an immersion programme for upper secondary students based on NE$T, a financial board game developed by a team of FBI final year students with advice from financial experts from the industry. The game's concept is similar to Monopoly where players have to earn money and buy property. The difference is, players can pick up 'learning space' cards that give them financial advice and investment tips. One of these cards could read: 'Don't rely only on the CPF money as many experience insufficient cash for retirement.'
Participants even stood a chance to win IPOD TOUCH and PSP - ‘Wow’ prizes. Exciting isn’t it ?
There were students from different secondary schools. Some came earlier and thus, spent time on solving crossword puzzles relating to financial topics. As organisers, we went around to help them by giving some “hints”.

Eventually, all the teams had arrived for the event. The participants were totally engrossed while listening to the explanation of the game rules by Bang Geng and Jaynie.
Before the competition started , there was a ‘practice’ session for participants to familiarise themselves with how NE$T should be played. During the competition, the whole room was filled with fun and excitement. Can you feel that? Not only did participants enjoyed themselves, they also learnt knowledge of topics ranging from CPF to health insurance and financial products. This allowed them to buy their own 'house' and complete the game.








Kenny and Rong Quan from Mac Pherson Secondary School jumped with joy when they won the first prize which was a PSP each.


Shu Hui and Ann May from Temasek Secondary School won the second prize which was an Ipod TOUCH each.


This event is definitely a memorable one for both the participants and the organisers. There are other events that are coming up soon.



Do stay tuned! ^^

Posted by Yu Ting