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	Entrepreneur Club
Relax with a game of pool at GESSCOVE after school Our pushcart – GESS Christmas Thots was a one-stop Christmas gift solution. Handmade cards for sale @ GESSCove Champions at The Great TP SIFE Ice Cream Challenge Packing sweets for sale for the Citibank-Youth for Causes social entrepreneurship programme	Teachers-in-charge:	Mrs Kalai Vani Thanapalan Mrs Tay Yen Ping
	Our Club: The Entrepreneur Club was set up in 2004 in a bid to promote Innovation and Enterprise in Gan Eng Seng School. The E-Club aims to provide its members with fun-filled, hands-on real life business experience through continuous innovation and creative approaches. The E-Club members run GESSCOVE, a café cum activity centre where Gessians can pop by after school hours to relax over a game of pool, play board games or PSPs, chit-chat over Snow Ice desserts or just chill out to some cool music. In addition, our members take part in social entrepreneurship projects and entrepreneurship competitions.
	Our Activities for 2009: Jan – GESSCOVE Snow Ice Voucher Project Year 1 CCA Orientation and GESSCove open house Feb – Training of new members Mar – Roadshow on Youth for Causes Project Workshop on “How to Write a Good Business Proposal” Cross Country Carnival Booth Apr – Proposal Submission of Citibank-Youth for Causes Project May – The Great TP SIFE Ice Cream Challenge Citibank-Youth for Causes Project – Life is Sweet Jun – Citibank-Youth for Causes Project – Life is Sweet AYG Torch Relay Carnival Booth Jul – Citibank-Youth for Causes Project – Life is Sweet Aug – Citibank-Youth for Causes Project – Life is Sweet Sports Fiesta Carnival Booth Sep – Citibank-Youth for Causes Project – Life is Sweet Oct – Preparation for Sec 1 CCA Orientation 2010 Nov/Dec – Annual Spring Cleaning of GESSCove Our Activities for 2010: Jan – Year 1 CCA Orientation and GESSCove open house Training on new cash register Feb – 3 teachers and 19 students from Whitley Secondary School came on a Learning Journey to GESSCove Mar – Workshop on “How to Write a Good Business Proposal” The Financial Literacy Challenge 2010 Inspire to Innovate Programme (Session 1)
	Our Achievements: In 2006, we took part in the Enterprising Youth Competition organized by the CDAC Redhill Student Service Centre and won the 1st Prize despite facing tough competition from our competitors. We also participated in the 4th National Trade Marks Competition and learnt about product branding. In 2008, we sent a team of 6 members to take part in the National Pushcart Challenge 2008 organised by Republic Polytechnic in support of the Global Enterpreneur Week. Our team won the ‘Most Patronized Pushcart’ Award and won our club a trophy and $500 cash. In 2009, we sent a team of 10 members to participate in The Great TP SIFE Ice Cream Challenge and won 1st prize in the competition. Our club also submitted a proposal for the Citibank-Youth for Causes social entrepreneurship programme and was one of the 100 teams selected for this project. In addition to learning valuable life lessons, having fun and working hard together, we also managed to raise a total of $7942.85 for Yong En Care Centre, our selected Non-Profit Organisation for the Youth for Causes social entrepreneurship programme. 2010: On 20 March, 6 of our E-Club members represented the school to participate in The Financial Literacy Challenge organized by the NTU FastForward Board Games Society. This Challenge aims to inculcate essential financial literacy knowledge in youth in Singapore through the use of games and is a Nationwide inter-school competition. One of our teams emerged champions at this challenge. They won $150 worth of board games for themselves and a challenge trophy for the school. The champion team consists of the following members. Janice Yeo Qi Fang from 4F Ho Kai Jie from 4G and Nicholas Gan from 4G