By SIM PEI XUAN
SUBANG JAYA: Students expressed their creativity in promoting green awareness during the Eco Poster Designing Competition.
Each team of three students had to create a poster on a blank A3 canvas, using mixed media of their own choice including paints, crayons and colour pencils to fill in their ideas on environmentalism.
“I realised that it is very difficult to see stars in the sky nowadays because of the polluted environment which most people are not concerned about,” Foundation in Science student Saw Kai Xuan, 19, said.
Saw’s team, From Our Heart, created a three-dimensional poster promoting the message that humans are dependent on the ecosystem, and it was listed as one of the top five winners of the competition.
Team Baymax, who was also one of the winners, challenged innovativeness by using materials from the surroundings such as leaves, cracker wrappers and bottle labels collected from trash.
Inspired by the daily observation of people littering, the team from School of Biosciences wanted to pass on the message that every small piece of litter is a contribution to a big pile of rubbish.
“I think this is a healthy competition and we need it once in a while,” team member and Filipino exchange student Patricia Noreen Bueno, 20, said.
Another winning team, The Fingerprints from Diploma in Education created a poster that promoted awareness on the conservation of electricity, using only their fingers and paint.
Team member Violacea Low Yin Hui, 20, said, “It was so much fun, and we had a lot of laughter playing around with the colours.”
Organised by Taylor’s University Community Service Initiatives, the competition was part of the Energy Conservation Opportunity Campaign held throughout the World Environment Month of June.
Campaign Assistant Director Tan Vee Yen, 21, said the competition aimed to instill the concept of energy conservation in the minds of Taylorians while fostering inter-school relationships.
“Each team had its own unique feature, and I was very impressed to know that every single line and colour on each poster had a significant meaning,” she added.
Each team of three students had to create a poster on a blank A3 canvas, using mixed media of their own choice including paints, crayons and colour pencils to fill in their ideas on environmentalism.
“I realised that it is very difficult to see stars in the sky nowadays because of the polluted environment which most people are not concerned about,” Foundation in Science student Saw Kai Xuan, 19, said.
Saw’s team, From Our Heart, created a three-dimensional poster promoting the message that humans are dependent on the ecosystem, and it was listed as one of the top five winners of the competition.
Team Baymax, who was also one of the winners, challenged innovativeness by using materials from the surroundings such as leaves, cracker wrappers and bottle labels collected from trash.
Inspired by the daily observation of people littering, the team from School of Biosciences wanted to pass on the message that every small piece of litter is a contribution to a big pile of rubbish.
“I think this is a healthy competition and we need it once in a while,” team member and Filipino exchange student Patricia Noreen Bueno, 20, said.
Another winning team, The Fingerprints from Diploma in Education created a poster that promoted awareness on the conservation of electricity, using only their fingers and paint.
Team member Violacea Low Yin Hui, 20, said, “It was so much fun, and we had a lot of laughter playing around with the colours.”
Organised by Taylor’s University Community Service Initiatives, the competition was part of the Energy Conservation Opportunity Campaign held throughout the World Environment Month of June.
Campaign Assistant Director Tan Vee Yen, 21, said the competition aimed to instill the concept of energy conservation in the minds of Taylorians while fostering inter-school relationships.
“Each team had its own unique feature, and I was very impressed to know that every single line and colour on each poster had a significant meaning,” she added.