Alvin Yong and Tai Jin Chin are a husband and wife team. They are both
adventurers at heart who love the great outdoor - they rock
climb, trek, camp, cave and ski all around the world, from
Asia to Australia to Europe to USA to Africa.
Stone Edge was born entrepreneurially
in 1995 out of their love for adventure and their passion
for creative architecture of experiential learning.
With a belief that whatever their minds can conceive, they
can achieve, Alvin and Jin set out on their enterprising adventure
to create new possibilities to shape adventure for the new
generations in Singapore. They went on to design and install
climbing walls in the Singapore Polytechnics, Damai Secondary
School, the Health Zone in the Singapore Institute of Health,
and the TOUCH Diabetes Support Centre. They also designed
and built adventure playgrounds for the kids at the Hong Kah
Town Council and the Clementi Sport Hall.
From 1995 to 2000, Alvin volunteered his service as the Vice
President of the Singapore
Mountaineering Federation, the national body overseeing
the promotion and development of the sports of climbing and
mountaineering in Singapore. As the climbing sport was still
at its infancy in Singapore back in the mid 90s, Alvin saw
the need to anchor the development of the sport by means of
formulating a set of national standards. He initiated and
led a select committee to develop and launch the Singapore
National Climbing Standards. It took him over 2 years
to develop the standards and to eventually launch the SNCS
in 1997. SNCS remains to date the national certification scheme
for all climbing courses and climbing instructor training
in Singapore.
Alvin and Jin believe that adventure is a great medium for
experiential education and personal development. They fired
up their spirit of creativity and created unique and out-of-the-world
experiential programmes for families, school and corporate
clients, and brought them out of their home, classrooms and
offices into the embrace of Mother Nature. Using the trees,
slopes, streams, lakes and cliffs, the couple opened up the
minds of participants to learn about themselves, from both
team and individual perspectives, as well as enhancing their
self-confidence, team work, communication and leadership.
In 2008, Alvin and Jin launched Project Colours Of Life (www.coloursoflife.info) as a family endeavour to introduce experiential learning adventures to families in Singapore. In 2009, they introduce a unique Rice Farm Eco-Vacation (www.tigerlandricefarm.com) in Singapore.
Experiential Architecture, as they called this "hobby"
of theirs, is a lifelong passion. Feel free to email
them to discuss your needs or just for a friendly chat.
"There's no virtue in easy victory."
- Sir Edmund Hillary
Alvin Yong and Tai Jin Chin
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