Activities
Students have been awarded Gold and Silver awards at the Scholastic Environment Fund Oratorical contest, and were ranked 26th out of 102 schools in the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad.
In November 2007, Hwa Chong International School hosted an International Youth Forum on Global Warming, attended by students from several countries.
In 2009, a group of Pre-University 2 students participated in the HPC Quest, an educational outreach program by A*STAR'S (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Institute of High Performance Computing. The team brainstormed on the topic 'Digging for Cavities', working closely along with their teacher and a researcher from IHPC. HCIS was announced as the challenge champions.
HCIS was one of the three IB schools in Singapore chosen to host the International Baccalaureate Asia Pacific Regional Workshop in March 2009.
In June 2010, 15 students represented HCIS in the 20th Model United Nations (SMUN) hosted by the National University of Singapore (NUS). Among the 20 schools, both local and foreign, which participated in SMUN, HCIS was given the SMUN Best Delegation award, an achievement earned by the top three schools based on their team performance in the writing of position papers and their actual performance during the SMUN, which involves debates and redrafting of resolutions.
HCIS screened the 2010 World Cup finals in the school's multi-purpose hall.
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