Last evening, SMU held its 13th Commencement Ceremony, where the Guest-of-Honour was Mr Ong Ye Kung, Acting Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills). In his speech, he encouraged graduates to have the courage to be different and urged them not to settle for being a cookie-cutter graduate. Already putting Mr Ong's words into action is entrepreneur and Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) Valedictorian Award winner Sharon Yeo, who graduated from the Lee Kong Chian School of Business with a Bachelor of Business Management. She is part of a two-member team that founded Protégé, a mentorship software start-up company that helps organisations manage mentoring programmes. Since it kick-started in October 2014, the software has benefited around 100 mentors and mentees. Another fresh graduate aiming to pursue what he enjoys is SPH Magazines Salutatorian Award winner Lim Yi Sheng, a Bachelor of Science degree-holder from the School of Information Systems. His secondary school through junior college years saw him working odd jobs as a programmer and graphic designer to support his family, after his father lost his job. Mr Lim was quick to realise his passion for software design and engineering in university, and is currently assisting a start-up called Travify, which offers travel itinerary planning services via an app.