Ngee Ann Secondary School (abbreviation: NASS) is an autonomous government-aided secondary school in Tampines, Singapore. The school was started by the Ngee Ann Kongsi, a Teochew clan foundation. Set up in 1994, Ngee Ann Secondary was a successor to the now defunct Tuan Mong High School which closed in that same year. It is also the youngest school in Singapore to be awarded the autonomous status till 2013. It has won several awards, including the Singapore Quality Class Award and Best Practice Award in Teaching and Learning. Construction works for PRIME have been fully completed in late 2010.Besides being name as the COE of ICT, the school have achieve names such as Microsoft Mentor School, Microsoft Pathfinder School and Microsoft Living Lab by CEO of Microsoft. The school is one of the few FutureSchools@Singapore conferred by MOE and IDA as a leading school with excellent teaching and learning practices that leverage on technology.
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