Important Dates
4 September to 9 October 2023: Call for nominations
November 2023: Nominees will be informed of nomination outcome
March to April 2023: Announcement of SDA recipients
Student Developer Award (SDA)
The Student Developer Award (SDA) recognises and celebrates non-academic members of the SIT community who have positively contributed to the learning experiences of our students, which resulted in the development and growth in their journey at the University.
The qualifying period for the award is for the Academic Year (AY) 2022, i.e., September 2022 to August 2023.
Eligibility & Criteria
The award is open to non-academic member of the SIT community who is employed full-time with the University and have direct interaction with students in the course of their work.
The staff must exemplify strong commitment to students and student development. There must be direct and evident impact on student growth or achievement as a result of the effort of the nominee.
The award takes reference from the SIT Industry Ready Skills Framework (IRSF) (refer to Diagram 1) and seeks to recognise non-academic staff who have geared a SIT student towards cultivating and/or acquiring skills for them to be successful pre-/post-graduation.
The IRSF embodies the overall skills, competencies and attributes that SIT graduates need to be industry ready. It helps students to:
- Gain the disciplinary knowledge, skills and abilities from your applied degree programmes.
- Acquire transferable skills from within and outside formal curriculum.
- Imbue the SITizen-DNA.
Diagram 1: Industry Ready Skills Framework
The IRSF comprises of 18 transferable skills mapped into one of the five key skills areas (refer to Diagram 2) in:
- Thinking Agility
- People Agility
- Digital Agility
- Professional Agility
- Change Agility
Diagram 2: Five Skills Areas
Learn more about the importance of transferable skills at https://bit.ly/IRSFNews.
SIT staff, existing students and alumni (who graduated within 1 year of the degree programme) are welcome to submit a nomination via the link here.
Award
SDA recipients will receive a plaque which will be presented at the Academic Group townhall.
Need more information?
Contact Ms Chen MeiYing at meiying.chen@singaporetech.edu.sg if you have any questions about the SDA.