It is our pleasure to announce that Morgan Stanley, a leading financial company, and Alstom, a global leader in power generation, have agreed to nominate senior executives to be mentors in Graduate Mentoring Program, a pioneer mentoring program in HK which targets young graduates as mentees.

Supported by Office of University Development and Public Affairs (OUDPA) of HKUST, the program aims at helping young HKUST graduates realize their career aspirations and goals. We are still inviting more companies to nominate senior executives with over 10 years of working experience to be mentors.

If …
1) your company is interested to know more about this program,
2) you know somebody who will be interested, and/or
3) you have more than 10 years of working experience and you are interested,

please email Viola Zhang (Student Executive, HKUSTAA) at viola@ustaa.hk before 30 April 2009 with your name, title, company name, and daytime contact number.

Have our cameras ready! Whether you are a photo hobbyist or not, you must be attractive by Sam Mun Tsai and take a lot of shots.

Sam Mun Tsai is the largest fishing village in the Tai Po area. Most of the village houses are simple 2-storey structure giving people an impressed of a quiet and peaceful fishing village. When weather is fine, we can also enjoy a beautiful sunset with Pat Sin Leng as background.

You are also welcome to dress up and pose like a model. The photographers won't disappoint you.

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The HKUST Alumni Association jointly organizes with Salvation Army a day trip to Tai Tong Lychee Valley with Nepalese and Pakistani families. We will be having fun with the Valley's facilities as well as mini-games prepared. Through this event, we aim to provide a chance for the South Asian families to interact with our alumni, enjoy a happy day together, in order to enable those families to know more about the majority residents and integrate into the community.

Due to overwhelming support, all of the 12 seats of volunteer are full. Thanks for your precious time!

HKUSTAA members can enjoy special offers from PCCW Limited, which include:
-  Special offer on purchase of AV Digital Product (LCDTV, Notebook, Desktop, Mobile, etc.)
-  PCCW Service Subscription (Telephone, PCCW Mobile, Netvigator Broadband Internet & nowTV Services)
Please refer to Promotion Flyer here

Remark:
-  Special offers are updated on 15th of each month.
-  Please quote your membership card name and number upon purchase.

Members Hotline: 2883 2323 (One-Stop-Hotline for HKUSTAA Members)

The March Get Together was held on 28 March 2009 with 20 participants. We enjoyed a relaxing weekend, chatted with new and old friends in topics such as financial challenge, hiking, community and beauty.

The environment was cosy, the food was delicious, and the participants were charming. Thanks for all your participation.

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The School-Company Partnership (SCP) programme has been kicked off on 7 March 2009. 18 Company Ambassadors from the HKUST Alumni Association were divided into 6 teams and each team was assigned to a secondary school.

The theme of this programme is 'Entrepreneurial Spirit'. It aims at fostering the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, which include commitment, innovation, integrity and being visionary, in young people.

"I am assigned to a secondary school affiliated to Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education. Most of the students are studying hospitality. In fact, students joining this programme are mainly studying Hospitality. It is my pleasure to have my friend Laurence Lai, a famous landscape photographer, sharing his experience in entrepreneurship in one of the classes. The feedback is very positive", Ronny Hui, Deputy President of HKUSTAA.

A progress review will be held on 16 April 2009. All Company Ambassadors should have already received the invitation from YDC. We are looking forward to seeing you in the session.

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The HKUST Alumni Association and the HKUST Student Affairs Office jointly organize the HKUST Alumni Confluence Dinner Spring 2009. We cordially invite all enthusiastic alumni from various business sectors to participate.

The Confluence Dinner consists of a live chat between alumni and a prestigious guest speaker as well as a buffet style dinner. Its aim is to inculcate into the minds of students that readiness to communicate with people they do not know before in a social setting will enlarge their social network and expand their outlook in life. This sharing can broaden students' breadth of interests and strengthen their interpersonal skills.

This time, we will be focusing on the survival guide in this era of change.

You have an important role! Your HKUST and business experience will be acting as a bridge between students and the guest speaker to encourage and facilitate the communication. It is crucial to the success of the dinner!

Please email Germaine Chan  at germaine@ustaa.hk on or before 30 April 2009 for registration and further enquiries.

HKUSTAA is at its rapid growth and development stage. Many projects have been innovated and launched within the last few months. These projects have definitely brought impact to the Alumni Association, HKUST itself as well as the society. Further to previous successful experiences and for the benefit of the Association & fellow Alumni as a whole, we wish to invite Alumni to become Program Directors of projects of their interests.

HKUSTAA is proud to announce that Mr Roman Cheng has accepted our invitation as a Program Director last month for the recruitment of HKUSTAA corporation team to participate in "5th MTR HONG KONG Race Walking" to be held on 19 April 2009.

HKUSTAA is also honored to obtain support and commitment from the HKUST President, Prof Paul Chu. Our Program Directors and Exco Members will pay semi-annual visits to Prof Chu. These regular visits will assist HKUSTAA in communicating the rationale of the university and higher education to alumni who are motivated to contribute back to the university as well as the alumni community.

Would you like to be the next to launch your personalized project? HKUSTAA wants to recognize your professionalism, experience and ideas. Join HKUSTAA as a Program Director if you are a passionate individual looking for opportunities for self development and career empowerment, or if you are aspired to launch a valuable and meaningful project contributing to the Association, the University or the Society.

Should you have any enquiries, kindly contact Sherlyn Khor, Student Executive, at sherlyn@ustaa.hk for further information.

Co-organized by HKUST and the HKUST Alumni Association, Project Sundial aims at promoting inspiring entrepreneur stories of HKUST alumni, establishing the first entrepreneurship scholarship in HKUST and building a quality network among HKUST entrepreneur alumni through one sustainable project.

This year, it is our honor to have invitee our UST Alumni, Rita Lo as Project Sundial Program Director and Lisa Djeng, as our project advisor. Also, we are glad to announce that several companies such as Asia Vision and Radica Systems Limited have already committed to the Project Sundial. We are trying to contact and get support from more companies and entrepreneurial UST Alumni.

The legend of our UST comes from the aspiration and perspiration of all successful Alumni. Through telling the entrepreneurial stories of outstanding UST alumni, we hope to keep a record of how HKUST established, grew up and became illustrious. We believe the inspiring stories from you will be the propulsion of enhancing entrepreneurial spirit in our school.

If you are passionate and interested in the Sundial Project, if you want to incorporate your entrepreneurial story into the UST legendary, please contact Jennifer Hu at jennifer@ustaa.hk for further information.