1. Name of the School: Raffles InstitutionAddress : Raffles
Institution, One Raffles Institution Lane, Singapore 575954School
Leader:Story Title: Slow Bus ServicesTel.: Email: Mentor Teacher :
Mrs Ramesh STUDENT INFORMATION 1) Name: Jordan Ng Age: 14 Grade:
Secondary 2 2) Name: Leben Chew Age: 14 Grade: Secondary 2 3) Name:
Jovan Chan Age: 14 Grade: Secondary 2 4) Name:Aaron Choe Age: 14
Grade: Secondary 2 5) Name: Age: Grade:
2. August Our plan was simply to write to SBS transitMany
students and teachers from our about our problem and hope for
changesschool take the bus to school every day.We ourselves do take
the bus too, and we to be made, but if we were to do that, we
probably will not be able to make much offelt that the waiting
times for the buses any impact. Therefore we needed evidencearound
our school were getting more andmore erratic, and think that it may
pose a to back up our claims, and also a person ofproblem to other
students who take the higher authority to endorse our claims to
make it more impactful.bus. Therefore we wanted to change
thisproblem.
3. To start off, we began by conducting a survey given to 60
students that take the bus from our school. From this, wegathered
evidence of the bus waiting times being long and indeed being a
problem for the students. With this, westarted our action week.We
set up a facebook page to garner support from our peers and to post
questions and updates about our project.We also held a joint
exhibition with the other DFC project groups in Raffles Institution
held at the main atrium,which lasted 3 days. Posters we made
showcasing our findings and our cause were put up. Many students
andteachers came down to take a look at our posters and learn more
about the various topics we are focusing on. Onour poster, we had
added a petition and many students and teachers did come forth to
take a look at our posterand sign our petition.For two days, we
went around our school and approached several students to explain
our project to them. Wethen proceeded to ask them to sign on our
petition to help support our cause.On the last day, we made use of
the Meet the People sessions held every Tuesday night to approach
the MP ofBishan-Toa Payoh GRC, Mrs Josephine Teo. We presented our
findings to her and requested of her that she assistus in
propelling our project forward. A few days later, we received a
letter written from her stating that she will behappy to forward
our findings to SBS transit for their use in planning service
improvements. This is good news forus as it means we are now one
step closer to achieving our goal of improving the waiting times of
buses aroundour school.An improvement to the waiting times of buses
around our school would impact all of the students and teacherswho
take the bus to school. Although we do not know the exact number of
people impacted, the number will begreat as many students and
teachers do take buses to school everyday.