Key IEX Events
IMPACT FESTIVAL
At the end of the two-year IEx project, project works, reflections, and findings are showcased in carefully curated exhibits at the Impact Festival.
Impact Festival 2025 – Emergence celebrates a diverse range of creative works of the pioneering batch of NUS College students’ IEx projects, where students work in parallel with local and regional communities in Singapore and Southeast Asia for social impact.
Click here to view the festival page.
IEx Hackathon/Prepathon
From 2023 to 2025, the IEx Hackathon/Prepathon was a key step in laying the foundations for the IEx project. Students were given the opportunity to build on their project plans by gathering input from multiple perspectives. Students brainstormed with each other, heard from practitioners, and obtained advice from IEx Supervisors aside from their own.
From 2026, the key aims and purposes of the Hackathon/Prepathon will be integrated into the core IEx curricula.
IEx Networkiing Session
The IEx Networking Session is an annual event which facilitates the formation of IEx project groups. Started by an independent group of pioneering students in 2023, the networking session was curated out of the need to establish a peer-led networking opportunity for students to find potential group members to embark with on the flagstone 2-year IEx Project. The session is a one-stop platform for students to get to know fellow cohort-mates, seek guidance from seniors, hash out ideas, and find suitable group members with similar topic interests and working approaches.
Since 2024, the IEx Networking Session has been adapted into the official workplan of the NUS College Club (NUSCC) and is entirely student-run. The NUSCC is a constituent club of the NUS Students’ Union made up of the community of students enrolled in NUS College. Find out more about them here.
Guest Lectures
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, who visited NUSC in September 2022. He moved and inspired students with personal stories of overcoming challenges in his lifelong commitment and dedication in understanding problems and finding creative solutions.
Special lectures by distinguished servant leaders and eminent practitioners form an important part of NUS College’s vision to encourage and inspire action for positive change. From time to time, students and alumni may also get the chance to hear from luminaries, such as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.