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Canoe Polo Teams Dig Deep at NUS High

February 25, 2010

Canoe polo is a high-energy combination of kayaking, basketball and water polo. It's played in a swimming pool 35 x 23 metres (i.e. slightly smaller than an Olympic-sized pool). Players navigate the water in their canoes, competing to score their highest number of goals. The only secondary school canoe polo teams in Singapore are at the NUS High School of Mathematics and Science. The school has three teams - two boys' and one girls', with 27 members in all - and they train at the NUS pool, up to five times a week in the lead-up to a competition.

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Graduation Glee for Pioneers of NUS High School

January 13, 2009

NUS High School graduation 2008

The 88 pioneering students from NUSHS.

"My friends and I used to joke in school that if there ever was a mathematics and science school in Singapore, we'd gladly enrol in it," grins 17-year-old Gregory Lau. On 1 December 2008, Gregory and his peers became the first students to graduate from such an institution - the National University of Singapore High School (NUSHS).

The inaugural convocation saw 88 students of the pioneering batch graduate receive their diplomas from Minister of Education Dr Ng Eng Hen. Recognised by all tertiary institutions in Singapore and even foreign universities like Harvard, the diploma recognises their completion of a six-year integrated course specialising in mathematics and science. As Dr Ng remarks during his congratulatory address, "You were all pathfinders, seeking paths that other students and schools haven't gone through."

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