Bong Jun Hao, a first-year student in SMU, completed his diploma in financial informatics at Singapore Polytechnic under the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore’s (IDA) Integrated Infocomm Scholarship. Thereafter, he applied for the Fast Track Bachelors-Masters Scholarship, and is now pursuing both a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management at SMU and a Master of Science in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. To further his technical skills, Jun Hao intends to sign up for IDA’s professional development courses, and hopes to be a ground-breaker in the IT industry in future.