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Weekend Activities

Austin Height Water and Adventure Park is 5 kilometers away from Sunway College JB. It is a large scale water and adventure park which consists of 3 floors and offer variety types of recreational activities.

Water park is located at the ground floor, it consists of many facilities such as splash world, super surf, rainbow hood, racer bowl, wave pool, lazy river and so on. As Malaysia is a tropical country, water park would always be the first option for summer activities.

Not only that, there is also a small indoor racing circuit beside the ticket office which enable passenger to experience speed and drift.

The second floor is an adventure park and it offer climbing activities. This section is suitable to those people who likes climbing and not afraid of high as it is about 3 stories high.

Skating
Skating
Dodge Ball
Jump Street
Basketball
Fitness

For the third floor, it is more toward to sport activities such as ice skating, jump street, gym and dodge ball which enable us to active muscles and get sweaty.

After-School Activities

Basketball

In our college, we have our own basketball court and basketball team. If you are a basketball player, you will really enjoy it because our team player is really cordial with basketball.

On the other hand, exchange student is allow to join our basketball team. As they will participate in basketball competition which will match with other universities every year.

Volley Ball

Not only that, volley ball is also become one of a popular after-school activity.

Badminton

The exchange students are allow free access to badminton court as need to have a booking in advance.

Ping Pong

Other than that, our campus also provided ping pong table at ground floor. It is based on first-come,first-serve basis.

Dart

Beside the ping pong table, there have a electronic dart board for the students to spend their short break.

Club and Society

We have several club and society in our campus. There are Leo Club, toastmaster club, first aid, accounting club, dance club, community outreach, music club and recreation club.

Music Club

Music club is the place to showcase your talents and meet more people from different courses. Catering for all kinds of music, instruments and campus events, they’re engaging, fun activities that pupils really enjoy.

Dance Club

Dance club is the place that where you can show your passion while busting out your sickest moves. The students can effectively reduce the impact that it has on their emotional wellbeing by moving their bodies in a dance club. Dance club also will participate in some campus events such as freshies night and so on.

Recreation Club

The objectives of the club remain to promote all forms of sports, recreation and social activities through some outdoor activities. Leverage on leisure and recreation, its provided an opportunity to refresh our mind, discover and develop the talents and to make friends during the activities. Recreation club consists of various sports and hobbies such as frisbee, futsal, chess, climbing, volunteering and some outdoor activities.

Accounting Club

Accounting Club is a platform to learn more skills and knowledge to enhance your accounting skills. The Accounting Club is open to all students with an interest in the field of Accounting and aims to introduce students to the many opportunities and careers available in the field.

Toastmaster Club

Toastmaster club which you can standing in front of a large crowd polishing up your soft skills and learning to keep your cool. The toastmaster club can improve students’s oral expression and thought. The most important is develop the confidence and ability to speak in public and foster “Better Listening, Thinking and Speaking” .

First Aid Club

First aid club is the club to provide first and immediate assistance given to any student who suffering from either a minor or serious illness or injury. First Aid club is provides skills or guidance for the student to take some urgent treatment when injured or taken ill.

Leo Club

Leo club is to actively providing their communities and the world with kindness and service. Join the Leo club if you want to improve leadership abilities by participating in social service activities. We have managed to make up a lot of events inside or outside the campus. Recently, we was went to an orphanage home for celebrating Mid-Autumn festival in Johor Bahru.

Fast Food Shop

There are total of 3 fast food shops surrounded Sunway College JB, which are McDonalds, Subway and Domino’s Pizza. These 3 fast food shops required for only few minutes for student to walk out from school to reach there. As fast food shop provided variety choices, fast services and affordable price on meal, hence students always choose to have lunch in fast food shop as it save time and money. Not only that, students are also like to sit there together with their friends to have a discussion on assignment.

Stress and Emotional Relief Activity

There are more than three KTV surrounded Sunway College JB, while the nearest is Big Studio which located opposite of the college. Student often like to go there for some celebration, vent and relax. When student are having a 3-4 hours break, KTV will be the best place for student to kill time with friends. The price of KTV which surrounded college is considered cheap and even provided meal sometimes, therefore student like to patronize as it can be the place to play while eat.

Experience Mystery and Intellectual Development Activity

One of the most popular place of entertainment -“Lost in JB”, is located at Austin Height which is also near by Sunway College JB. Lost in JB is an escape room which provided intellectual and mystery escape game, and allow a group of 3-6 people to adventure. Currently, they are offering a total of 6 themes and the theme will subject to change with the season. Not only that, remember to bring the student ID card which can enjoy the student price which is more valuable for the entrance fees. As the games are required intelligence and the answers are always unexpected. Hence, most of the student like to adventure and have fun with their friends during holidays or after finish class.

Shop for “Convenience”

There are some convenience stores nearby the campus such as Family Mart, 7-11, 100 Yen, Watson and Guardian. The students are more likely access to Family Mart which there have various types of the food catagories within small convenience stores located outside the college. When there is a short break, Family Mart will be the first choice for the student to settle their meal. Besides, sometimes the students want to buy some daily supplies or grocery without travelling to the malls , Watson and Guardian are more convenience which also located outside the college especially for the student who stayed in hostel.

Malls

Other than that, there are also some malls located 10 minutes from Sunway College JB which are Tesco, Ikea and Aeon. The most visited by the students is Aeon because the mall included plenty of F&B, hypermarket, clothings store and other accessories options. Most of the students will go to the mall to purchase some groceries or daily supplies at the hypermarket, having the meals or wallk around to spend some times at there.

Take a Break at the Courtyard

Sunway College JB’s courtyard consists of around 20 tables and 60 chairs. Student usually use it for assignment discussion, revision, and rest. Sometimes there are also some events held at the courtyard such as charity, games, commercial promotion and so on.

Other than that, there have 4 vending machines placed at the courtyard. Those vending machines sell some drinks, cup noodles, cookies and some sport accessories to entertain students’ need.

Use of Perfect Computer Lab Facilities

IT Service Counter
Computer Cluster Lab
Intructional Lab

Sunway College JB’s Computer Lab consists of 10 instructional labs and a computer cluster lab. The instructional labs are for lecture and student usage and the computer cluster lab is available for all the students which come with first-come, first-served basis. Each computer lab is having a surpass of 20 computers and all the computer had installed some common used software such as Microsoft word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Excel and so on.

As for student’s needs, computer lab had also placed two printing machine for student to print, photocopy and scan their document. It has eased the students as majority of student have no printer at home and printing at outside may be expensive.