13th August 2010 marked the start of the duties of the Youth Olympic Games World Culture Village (YOG WCV) team from NYJC. Although preparation for the Austrian booth (NYJC's twinning country) started only a month or two beforehand due to specification requirements, the many days and nights spent on planning, designing, purchasing and constructing the entire booth, designed to appeal to the 5 senses, proved to be very much fruitful.

On 6th August this year, Nanyang Junior College celebrated the nation’s 45th year of independence with a bang. Starting the day with the traditional national day ceremony when all NYJCians came together to sing our National Anthem wholeheartedly and watched the flag ceremony with pride. Following which, the National Day activity organized by the 4th House Executive Committee (House Exco) was declared open.

In 2010, InC.ny would like to continue our objective to Ignite and Catalyse the Spirit of Innovation in our college. To keep track of innovative teaching practices and share within the NY community, we called for nominations for Innovative Teaching Practices in Term 2. We were very encouraged by the enthusiastic response from teachers.

On 4 August, the NYJC Biology teachers organized a learning journey to the Clinical Research Center of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at NUS. The visit was hosted by NYJC alumnus Dr Sherry Ho, who took us to the three cytogenetics research laboratories located at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

On 23rd July 2010, Lecture Theatre 4 of Nanyang Junior College (NYJC) was transformed into a concert hall featuring more than 10 performances by the school’s very own students, competing in 4 categories. The event, Viva la Music, was more than a showcase of musical talent in the college. Besides the “Band” and “Instrumental Category”, other talents had a chance in the limelight in the “Diversity” and “Dance” categories as well. Lasting more than 2 hours, a full house audience of 680 feasted their eyes on a wide array of performances, from slow singing to energetic cheer-leading.

Channel News Nanyang (CNNY), NYCONNEXIONS and the PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY collaborated together and participated in the Samsung Sports Media Challenge 2010 which was held from 5 April to 28 May. The competition aims to showcase the passion and dynamism of school sports in Singapore. All schools were invited to capture and share their sporting activities and sports culture in their very own online school sports channel. Altogether, 46 schools shared 1735 photos, 173 videos and 203 stories on exciting school sporting events.

On 24 July, NYJC’s very adventurous team of teachers and EAS ventured into Johor Bahru in search of the season’s best durians. In their quest to conquer the region’s king of tropical fruits, these go-getters had a taste of Johor’s kampong freshness, ranging from authentic pastries to chewy wanton noodles.

Nanyang JC's Judo Club was featured on Lian He Zao Bao on 14 July 2010.

The article was written by Zheng Kai Xin from 0937, a student journalist with Lian He Zao Bao. The article reported the outstanding achievements of the NYJC Judo Club at the recently concluded National Inter-Schools 'A' Division Judo Championships 2010.