Throughout Semester 1 2008, Golden Key RMIT has provided a range of activities for its members and the community. To name a few: The Business and Career Workshop, Self-Defence Workshop and the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal. What makes our activities different is the fact that they are great additions to your portfolio. Many companies nowadays look for extracurricular activities in addition to great academic performance. Recognising this need in the industry, we try to provide our members with certificates of appreciation for our larger activities, which act as written proof for prospective employers.
Stay tuned with Golden Key RMIT for more activities.
COVER STORY
New Semester, New Committee Members
With the new semester starting, Golden Key RMIT is proud to announce our newest committee members. We have a new Public Relations Director, Education Eirector and Webmaster. Here's a little bit about them.
Minnie Bong: Public Relation Director
I’m known as a workaholic. I'm always busy with things to keep myself occupied. This is the way I live my life. Work and enjoy as much as I can at the same time. I enjoy travelling and organizing events. Love crowd and also meeting new people. I’m currently in my 3rd year studying Chemical Engineering. Who says you can’t excel in both academic and co-curricular activities? Time management and confidence is my Golden Key of success. What’s yours? I’m also the President of RMIT- Malaysia Students Association. Talk to me if you are like me. To experience is to challenge yourself.
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Thilini Jayasekara: Education Director
I am a fourth year undergraduate following Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry double degree. I am joining the Golden Key chapter as the Education Service Director. I regard this as a lifetime opportunity, to develop a high standard of education and to provide services to the community. During my time with Golden key, I hope to provide dynamic opportunities to the others to enable professional and personal growth by organizing business career workshops and social events.
Samson Sim: Webmaster
I’m an international student from Malaysia pursuing my bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering. I’m currently in 3rd year and am looking forward to participate in more Golden Key activities. I enjoy playing competitive badminton during my spare time and play several sessions per week. I also play several musical instruments, including the piano, guitar and drums. Other stuff that I do are building model kits and a bit of blogging. I applied for this webmaster position as I have a personal interest in website design and graphics, and would like the experience of managing a professional webpage.
Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth
UPCOMING EVENTS
Ian Thorpe’s Fountain for youth is a non-profit organisation that supports the promotion of literacy and education within indigenous communities throughout Australia. Golden Key International Honour Society (RMIT Chapter) would like you all to get involved!
During August and September 2008, this chapter is aiming to raise $700 for the purchase of 7 Literacy Backpacks. These backpacks will be presented to indigenous children and their families, within remote communities, in order to stimulate an interest in reading.
In order to do this, the RMIT Chapter will be selling Hoyts movie ticket packs. Each pass is valid for 9 months for redemption at the box office for one admission.
Movie Lover Pack 5 Adult tickets (unrestricted) $55 (That’s $11 a ticket!) Bargain Pack 5 General Admission(Mon-Thurs) $45 (That’s $9 a ticket!) Mixed Group Pack 2 Adult & 3 Child (unrestricted) $50 (on average, $10 a ticket!)
If you are interested, please email our Fundraising Director Murdani Tjandrakusuma at
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Let your friends and family know about this great offer and support Ian Thorpe’s Fountain for youth!
Golden Key RMIT chapter wishes to honour the best amoung us by the issuing of the 2008 Golden Key RMIT chapter awards.
These awards are for the value of $250 and will be awarded to one student from each of the three portfolios within RMIT University (Science, Engineering and Technology/Design and Social Contect/Business). The winners will be notified via email and will receive their prize during the Golden Key New Member Reception on Wednesday the 20th of August, at 6.00pm.
Please submit applications (available under 'Scholarships' at www.goldenkey-rmit.org) as an attached Microsoft Word document (as well as your CV and record of results) to
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Remember to include the award you are applying for in the subject line. (eg. Design and Social Context Award or Business Award).
Golden Key New Members Reception
Golden Key & MSA Indoor Rock Climbing
Self Defence Workshop
Ian Thorpe Fountain for Youth Week
Daffodil Day
Business and Career Workshop
Watch the Golden Key RMIT Website calendar for more up-to-date event listings!
LEARN !
Search Engine Optimization
Commonly known as SEO nowadays, these technique is currently one of the hottest requirement in the web development world. While it seems to be technical and complex the idea is to make it easy for the search engines (eg. google) to find your website. Think of those search engines as rats in maze, it would try every possible links to get to the correct page.
The more hints you give to the search engine, the better rank your website will be. Use title tag, meta tags, headers and search enging friendly URLs. More on friendly URLs next time. -Arvy
ACTIVITY SPOTLIGHT
Golden Key New Member Reception
Coming around the corner is our most important activity of the year: The Golden Key New Member Reception. This is a highly prestigious event for Golden Key RMIT and its members as it is an official and worldwide recognition of your academic excellence.
Registration: 5.30pm
Dress: business attire
Location: Storey Hall Auditorium, Building 16, 336-348 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Contact:
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Golden Key Self Defence Workshop
After the succuss of our first workshop, Golden Key RMIT is holding a second Self Defence Workshop. Come along and learn how to avoid getting yourself into trouble and what to do if you find yourself in a threatening situation. The workshop will teach you the basics of identifying danger, making yourself seem like less of a target, how to diffuse a potentially dangerous situation and how to defend yourself if all else fails.
Last semester’s workshop was enjoyed by all and was found to be highly interesting and valuable. Your Golden Key membership gets you free entry and your friends can get in for just $5. The Workshop will be held in RMIT on the 11th of August from 6 - 7:30pm. You will be taught by instructors that have been doing martial arts for most of their lives and come from a diverse range of grappling and striking styles.
Where: University Function Room (Building 8, Level 2 Next to the Kaleide Theatre)
On the 24th May 2008, Golden Key RMIT worked together with The Salvation Army for their annual Red Shield Appeal. The appeal is the biggest fund-raising event for this charity which is used to help 1,500,000 people in Australia. As a part of our community service initiatives, Golden Key recruited 20 volunteers, which were separated into two sessions, morning and afternoon.
At the corner of Nicholson and Princes Streets-Carlton, our volunteering team, under the guidance of the Salvation Army personnel, started to ask for donations from the cars stopped at the traffic lights. We were overwhelmed by the genorosity we encountered. Astonishingly 3 people in our team received AU$50 note donations. From the first session, which was only two and half hours, we were able to raise approximately AU$3000. We were surprised and thrilled because we were able to contribute something for those who are in need.
After the quite tiring two and a half hours, we asked for a few comments from our volunteers. One of them said that, although it was a hard work, it is a really good experience. In addition to that, they were able to make new friends from this volunteering. Some of the others also said that they achieved their own personal satisfaction. Overall, this event was a success and surely Golden Key is going to get involved again in teh following years. So if you missed out on the Red Shield Appeal in 2008, don’t worry because, without doubt, we are going to need your help next year.
Therefore keep in touch with the any upcoming Golden Key events.
The Inter-Chapter Indoor Soccer Tournament
On Sunday, 6th July 2008, Monash Golden Key Chapter held an indoor soccer tournament as a realisation of Vic Alliance network activity. Just for information, Vic Alliance is a group of all Golden Key chapters across Victoria. It includes RMIT, Monash, Swinburne, Deakin, Ballarat, as well as La Trobe. At the day of the tournament, each chapter sent a team of at least five people, with the mix of male and female players allowed. Participating for RMIT chapter were most of the committee members with the addition of some friends. There would be five teams in one group, all to be playing each other.
It was a good start by us, beating Deakin 3-2 on the first game. However, the next few games were not very easy since we had to play consecutive games for just a few precious minutes to rest up and gain some more energy. In the end, when most of our players could hardly move, we finished at fourth on the table with 1 win, 1 draw, and 2 losses. It was not bad at all, considering some of us have never even kicked a ball before. At the end of the day, we all knew that it was a great experience to be able to meet a lot of new people from other universities as well as strengthen the bond between us, GK RMIT. There will be a lot more activities like this in the coming future.
Just visit our website for more of the upcoming events. (http://www.goldenkey-rmit.org/)
PARTICIPATION
Submit Your Articles to Golden Key
If you have an interesting article that you want to submit to this newsletter please e-mail it to
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Join Golden Key RMIT Facebook Group!
Golden Key RMIT Chapter is also at Facebook.com, join up and meet different members. Discuss your interests and expand your network!
We are continuously looking for interesting activities to enhance the membership value and increase communication between members.
If you would like to suggest any social activities that you think would enhance communication between Golden Key RMIT Chapter Members or increase membership benefits, please e-mail your suggestions to:
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JOIN Golden Key RMIT Committee
Interested in participating more actively in the Golden Key RMIT Community? Do you want to contribute more to bring this chapter to the next level? Do you want free leadership training that will contribute towards an RMIT LEAD Certificate? Then JOIN Golden Key RMIT Chapter Committee.
All you have to do is e-mail your interest and your study descriptions to
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Coming around the corner is our most important activity of the year: The Golden Key New Member Reception. This is a highly prestigious event for Golden Key RMIT and its members as it is an
On the 24th May 2008, Golden Key RMIT worked together with The Salvation Army for their annual Red Shield Appeal. The appeal is the biggest fund-raising event for this charity which is used to help 1,500,000 people in Australia. As a part of our community service initiatives, Golden Key recruited 20 volunteers, which were separated into two sessions, morning and afternoon.
We were overwhelmed by the genorosity we encountered. Astonishingly 3 people in our team received AU$50 note donations. From the first session, which was only two and half hours, we were able to raise approximately AU$3000. We were surprised and thrilled because we were able to contribute something for those who are in need.
It was a good start by us, beating Deakin 3-2 on the first game. However, the next few games were not very easy since we had to play consecutive games for just a few precious minutes to rest up and gain some more energy. In the end, when most of our players could hardly move, we finished at fourth on the table with 1 win, 1 draw, and 2 losses. It was not bad at all, considering some of us have never even kicked a ball before. At the end of the day, we all knew that it was a great experience to be able to meet a lot of new people from other universities as well as strengthen the bond between us, GK RMIT. There will be a lot more activities like this in the coming future.