At this present moment, the Student Volunteer Recognition Programme (SVRP) is open to existing full-time students in local IHLs. We have another track to encourage secondary school (Secondary 1 onwards) and JC students to volunteer as well.

We will be awarding certificates to Gold, Silver & Bronze winners from IHLs. In addition to this, Gold awardees will receive AiSP Challenge Coin as well as internship opportunities with our supporting partner companies.

The secondary school and JC students would be given Certificate of Merit when they achieved the stipulated milestones.

It will be from 1 Sep 2020 to 31 Aug 2021.

No, there should not be any double counting or duplication.

AiSP has defined the recognised activities as:

1. Activities which are outside of school curriculum and not assessed as part of student’s academic performance, and not mandated by the schools.
2. The cybersecurity-related activities may be initiated by the volunteers but must be eventually implemented or executed by the volunteers.

There are three pillars: i) Leadership, ii) Skill, and iii) Outreach, where,

1. Leadership refers to how the volunteer leads a team to complete the voluntary activity. For example,
• Organise a school talk on cyber security.
• Managing teams to complete a cybersecurity project for the community.
• Plan and manage production for a cybersecurity video.


2. Skill refers to how the volunteer applies his/her cybersecurity knowledge to others. For example,
• Conduct cybersecurity workshops or develop related software.
• Teach elderly (not related to volunteer) how to use security settings for smartphones.
• Impart cyber know-how and tips to younger students or peers in a student club or society.
• Prepare and deliver presentation or speak on cybersecurity topics to an audience.
• Produce and post video in public domain on how to be cyber-savvy when using free public Wifi, for dialect-speaking audience.


3. Outreach refers to how the volunteer is involved in outreach efforts (social media, events) to increase cybersecurity awareness for the public. For example,
• Submit social media posts to advocate for cyber awareness to Mandarin-speaking audience.
• Set up, run and/or support a CTF or cyber-related talk.
• Support the event organisation of events (physical, virtual)
• Part of the leadership in a SIG (i.e. student interest group) in the school

Please note if same number of hours of contribution cannot be duplicated in two or all three pillars.
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Please note that participation in cybersecurity events such as attendee for a talk, would not be counted for this nomination. If a volunteer is a speaker at a cybersecurity talk and it is in accordance to the activities recognised by AiSP, it would be counted under Skill category.

Yes, the lecturers have the flexibility to classify the student activities under event or leadership based on their judgement and activities outcome.

No, there is no fixed criteria for the event category. However, the Evaluation panel would like the students to fill in the impact, information of the event that they have participated in and record them in their submission form.

Yes within a specific time frame. The Evaluation Panel would assess on a case-by-case basis for cybersecurity-related voluntary activities. IHLs' appeals should be based on lecturers' assessment that the students could be considered for certain criteria of the category though their activities are not in accordance to what is stipulated under SVRP.

No, we will not have any quota for all award categories. The same applies to the track for secondary school and JC students.

No, it will not be counted for this period. However, we will review in the following year if there are many students who are unable to obtain the required hours for the events category.

No, the highest award that the student can obtain will be Gold. The need to create higher tier awards beyond Gold such as consecutive winners, would be reviewed at a later stage.

It should be something that the students apply what they have learnt by conducting or creating / developing a product or delivering a service or conducting a security practice like penetration testing.

No, any events / service learning activities that is part of the school curriculum will not be counted. It should be something that the students volunteered for beyond the curriculum hours.

Many of the internship programme focus more on academic results. For the internship that offered by our supporting partners, the focus will be on activities beyond academic qualification and recognising volunteer activities. It is not mandatory for students to take part in the internship programme if they do not wish to do so, even though they obtained the Gold award.

This interview is a pre-requisite, as it is important for our panel to validate the student’s participation and ensure that they fulfil all the categories.

The SVRP Student Nomination Form for IHLs can be downloaded here.

Nomination forms including details of the voluntary activities and hours involved would be verified by AiSP. Secretariat may reach out to students, teachers and organisations involved in the activities, to verify the activities and outcomes. Please click to download the SVRP Nomination Form for secondary school and JC students.

If a secondary school student enters an IHL within the same year i.e. 2020, AiSP would recognise the volunteer as secondary school student if the volunteer has not graduated from the secondary school as of 1 Jan 2020 (i.e. attainment of GCE ‘O’ Level certificate).

The same applies for JC student who has entered an IHL within the same year (i.e. attainment of GCE ‘A’ Level certificate).

Examples:
Attend CCA (CyberSec) workshop (conducted by instructor)
- Just attending training, no demonstration of current skills possessed (skills) or leading anything (leadership)

Organise and/or help out in ITE or Polytechnic mini-hackathon
- Depends on participation, what was the ultimate product after the mini-hackathon?

Organise and/or help out in DSTA Cyber Defender competition
- Depends on participation and demonstration of skills

Organise and/or help out in SICW SG Cyber Conquest
- Depends on participation and demonstration of skills.

Set up and manned SICW demo booth
- Provide support at technology or cyber-related events

Attend Industry Cyber-related talks/seminars
- Attend events.

Visit to SOC
- Attend events