During the silent hours of 1 am in the NUS school compound, a buzz was going on in the NOC Office where the local leg of BizBuzz07 was taking place on 9th Dec 2007.

BizBuzz07, a business case analysis competition, was the first inter-college event linking the NOC colleges in Silicon Valley, Bio Valley, Shanghai and Stockholm. Teams from the four colleges comprising of NOC students and students from the partner universities were given a case to solve within 72 hours. Thereafter, teams had to present their devised strategies to judges in the Bay Area via video conferencing.

On the side of Singapore, a team representing the NOC Alumni - Vincent Woon (NCSV 10), Valerie Choy (NCSV 10), Sharan H Makhija (NCSV 10), Philip Joe (NCBV 8 ) and Vipin Gupta (NCBV 8 ) (all from the outgoing batch of Jul 2006) took part in the competition. Presentations of all participating teams from the various colleges were viewed live in the NOC office.

Said Xu Daxiang (NCSV 11), who was heading the overall organisation of the event, “It was really an amazing effort from everyone - Shu Yang (NCSV) was the chief architect for the video conferencing technology, Stephanie (NCBV), Haikal (NCST) and Renzhi (NCSH) were superb in coordinating with the participants in their respective colleges. And also Brian and Jia Fang (NOC Alumni), who worked assiduously to design the BizBuzz logo in the midst of their exams. It was really a team effort and all of us were glad that we made this event happen. This is just a small step towards organising a bigger scale inter-college event in the future and, more importantly, forging camaraderie among students in the different NOC colleges.”

See photos here.