Dates: 5th July 2025 to 8th July 2025
Closing date of registering: 1 May, 2025
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Day 1: 5 July 2025
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Arrival to Singapore
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Collect the following items from SIMCC and check-in hotel
- Collect hotel key
- Contest pass
- T-shirt
- Goodie bag
- Wrist band
Note:
Please bring along a photocopy of the passport for the hotel registration
Day 2: 6 July 2025 - Competition Day
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SIMOC Competition
Note:
Wear SIMOC t-shirt on the competition day.
Must remember to bring along your contest pass, pencil, and eraser.
All Contestants
Breakfast in hotel
09:00
09:30
10:30
Arrival at school
Photo Taking Session
Start with SIMCC Math Olympiad Competition
12:30
Lunch in Contest Venue
Lower Primary Division
13:30
15:00
Maths Warriors Challenge
Dismissal from school
Upper Primary Division, All secondary Division
13:30
15:00
17:00
Math Master Mind Challenge
Maths Warriors Challenge
Dismissal from school
Day 3: 7 July 2025
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Optional tour
Breakfast in Hotel
09:45am
Assemble at hotel lobby
10:00am
Coach depart from hotel
10:30am
Reach Singapore Zoo
12:30pm
Lunch free and easy (please bring your own money as lunch
is NOT provided)
02:30pm-04:45pm
Bird Paradise
04:45pm
Gather at coach bay
05:00pm
Coach depart from Bird Paradise
05:30pm-05:45pm
Arrive at hotel lobby
Results announcement
Results will be announced from 5pm onwards
Certificates and medals can be collected at hotel from 7pm onwards
Day 4: 8 July 2025
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Award ceremony with Gala Buffet Lunch
All the students need to wear their country ethnic costumes. Parents need to wear smart casual.
Please bring along a meaningful gift from your country to exchange with the other participants.
The following is the high-level schedule on the award ceremony day *subject to changes:
Breakfast in hotel
7am
check out from hotel, return room keys, and store your baggage in hotel
8am
departure from hotel to Star Theatre
9am
3pm
award ceremony starts
award ceremony ends
4pm
return to hotel
Kindly Note:
The awards ceremony will end at 3 pm. Due to transportation factors in Singapore, we advise not booking same-day flight tickets back to New Zealand.
Please arrange accommodation and travel plans accordingly after the ceremony.
Tour on 7 July 2025: What is included in the tour package?
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Singapore Zoo
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Bird Paradise
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Coaches provided at destinated pick-up locations
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Prices includes English speaking tour guide throughout the journey
Singapore Zoo
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Home to over 4,200 animals, Singapore Zoo welcomes you into the world of the wild.
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As the world’s best rainforest zoo, our 'open concept' lets you meet our free-ranging orangutans swinging through the trees or feed a giraffe from your palm.
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Adventure awaits!
Bird Paradise
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Immerse in a symphony of colors at Bird Paradise — Asia’s largest bird park.
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Spanning 17 hectares, Bird Paradise is home to more than 3,500 birds from over 400 avian species with 8 large thematic walk-through aviaries. Each aviary reflects unique features, vegetation and bird species from different biomes around the world. Flock down to Bird Paradise today!
FAQ / Terms & Conditions
1. What is the SIMOC package price? What does the package price include?
SIMOC Package price (NZD 2,780.00) for each person for twin/triple sharing room (4D3N). SIMOC Package includes: • Hotel room with daily breakfast • Goodie bag and t-shirt upon arrival in Singapore • Transportation - (student) Hotel to competition venue - (student) Competition venue to hotel - Hotel to Award ceremony venue - Award ceremony venue to hotel • Lunch, mineral water and snack for all students during competition day (parents' meal not included) • Gala Buffet lunch for all guests during award ceremony • NZD 2,780.00 per pax inclusive of 9% GST (Goods & Service Tax) and 10% hotel service charge.
2. What will the hotel room be like?
International 4 Stars Hotel -2 single bed bedrooms or 1 Double bedroom -Breakfast for 2 people daily -Room size – 25m2 to 35m2 -Air-conditioning -Free Wi-Fi
3. Anything I need to wear or to bring?
Wear SIMOC T-shirt on the competition day. Must remember to bring along your contest pass, pencil, and eraser. Please wear your ethnic costume during the award ceremony day. Parents need to wear smart casual. Please bring along a photocopy of the passport for the hotel registration.
4. Refund policies, cancellation/ no show, and late fees?
No refund is allowed once the registration is submitted as we are unable to request for refund from the hotel, transportation partner and other arrangements. PGA reserves the right to charge full amount of the package for any cancellation. Should there be any no-show for confirmed reservations; a charge for full package will be levied as no-show charge. Any registration received after 1 May 2025, will be charged at a higher rate as the hotels will not offer us the contracted rates any more.
5. Is the travel insurance included in the fee?
No. Travel insurance is not included in the package. All the students and guests must purchase travel insurance coverage. PGA is not responsible for, nor will it be held liable for, any injury, damage or loss suffered on account of any conditions, actions or omissions that are beyond its reasonable control during SIMOC.
6. Who is responsible for my safety?
Students and parents should be responsible for their personal safety. PGA's major responsibility is organizing the competition itself, and do not have duty of care to students' or travellers' trip to Singapore. Please complete the PGA TRAVEL and TRIP RISK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/LIABILITY WAIVER FORM.
7. What are the meals?
Packages include international buffet breakfast, and students' lunch during competition day, and all guests' buffet lunch during Award Ceremony. Arrangements for special dietary such as vegetarian food is subject to hotel availability. You must state inside the registration list. No last-minute meal dietary requests can be arranged.
8. Check-in and Check-out Date and Time
Check-in time is from 1500 hours. Check-in before 1500 hours is subject to room availability. Check-out time is before 1100 hours. All late check-out requests are subject to availability and there will be additional charges from the hotels for late check-out. All standard packages are based on 4 days 3 nights. Guests will be responsible for handling any room extensions individually unless the majority or all of them opt to extend their stay together. Additionally, please note that the room rate may vary for the extended day. PGA reserves the right to adjust the package price in case the hotel room rate increases due to late registration.
9. Transport
PGA is not responsible to pay for the Grab or taxi fee if the guest(s) chooses not to wait for the arranged coach and want to take their own transport.
10. Award Ceremony
Each package purchased is allocated to only 1 award ceremony ticket. All guests must purchase the package to get the award ceremony ticket. PGA will not sell award ceremony ticket to any individual without the package. No refund of award ceremony fee if the guest(s) or student decide not to attend the ceremony.
11. Can my child travel alone? What will be the fees?
Underage students must be accompanied by a guardian when traveling to Singapore. In exceptional circumstances where the guardian is unable to accompany the student, they may seek another adult to accompany them to Singapore. However, in cases where the guardian does not accompany the student, in addition to the $3370 student SIMOC package, a management fee of $2780 is required. Moreover, it is necessary to make a note in the "Note" section of the registration form, and sign the Child Travel Consent Form.
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