SSCOBA led by the President, Mr. Mahesh Fonseka, held the very 1st meeting of the year 2020 on the 19th of January, 2020 at the SSCOBA Headquarters.

SSCOBA Patron, The Principal of the Sri Sumangala College, Mr. Dimuthu Deranagoda, SSCOBA Patron, Former SSCOBA Joint Secretary Mr. Sarath Alwis, and SSCOBA Advisor, Former SSCOBA President Mr. Wilson Kahandagamge and SSCOBA Advisor, Former SSCOBA President Mr. Sanath De Silva were presented at the meeting and shared their valuable thoughts and wishes for the new year.

Old Boys’ Association of Sri Sumangala College – Panadura successfully organized its first Career Guidance Program on Saturday, January 11, 2020 at the College Auditorium.

This is a first it’s kind of a program conducted in Panadura where students and parents were able to get one-on-one consultations from industry professionals and reputed institutes.

The event was attended by students and their parents. The SLIIT Academy, Cinec Campus, UNIVOTEC (The University of Vocational Technology), APIIT and TVEC (Tertiary & Vocational Education Commission) had their representatives to present their programs and one-on-one sessions.

Old Sumangalian Tilak De Silva did his presentation on Career Guidance and Chamil Jeewantha, Software Architect at Zone24/7 and Visiting Lecturer at University of Moratuwa, University of Kelaniya and University of Ruhuna and Hasith Yaggahavita, Chief Technology Officer at 99X Technology and Board member of SLASSCOM presented their BRIDGE program and one-on-one sessions.

We would like to thank everyone who got involved in this first-ever program and we will make sure this will be a part of SSCOBA’s annual event calendar.

Are you after 2019 A/Ls?

Students studying at college level are currently choosing a career based on parental, peer and societal influence. More importantly a lot of them drop out of education post A/Ls as they are not provided with any guidance. Also there is a huge gap in aspiration and awareness of vocational careers among students.

Seeing these issues in our Alma Mater, SSCOBA Digital & ICT Subcommittee planned to launch a career guidance project with an aim to help 2019 A/L students in taking effective transition from school to workforce and higher education.

This program is the brainchild of Old Sumangalian Tilak De Silva. The former Chief Business Innovation Officer of Sri Lanka Telecom, Past President of Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka and present Chairman of Engineering Council Sri Lanka.

Part from Tilak De Silva, this program program has two more speakers joining us.

Chamil Jeewantha, Software Architect at Zone24/7 and Visiting Lecturer at University of Moratuwa, University of Kelaniya and University of Ruhuna.

Hasith Yaggahavita, Chief Technology Officer at 99X Technology and Board member of SLASSCOM.

Our partners, SLIIT, Cinec Campus, UNIVOTEC (The University of Vocational Technology), APIIT and TVEC (Tertiary & Vocational Education Commission) will have their representatives to guide you at our program and one-on-one sessions.

2019 A/L students of Sri Sumangala College and their parents are requested to take part in this program and take advantage.

Call Chamara on 0712 967 967 or Sampath on 077 783 6296 or Lishan on 077 780 2562 for more details.

ශ්‍රී සුමංගල විද්‍යාලීය ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමය 2022 දී ශත සංවත්සරය සමරන මොහොතේ දිවයිනේ දක්ෂතම පාසල් චෙස් ක්‍රීඩකයන් 10 දෙනා අතර බහුතරය සුමඟුල් පුතුන් වනු දැකීම අපගේ අරමුණයි.

එකී අරමුණ ඉෂ්ට කර ගනු වස් ශ්‍රී සුමංගල විද්‍යාලීය ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමය සංවිධානය කරන ලද බස්නාහිර පළාත් වයස් කාණ්ඩ චෙස් තරඟාවලිය 2019 දෙසැම්බර් 18 වන දින ශ්‍රී සුමංගල විද්‍යාලිය සෝමතිලක විතාරණ ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී පවත්වන ලදී.

එහි ත්‍යාග ප්‍රධානෝත්සවයේ ප්‍රධාන ආරාධිත අමුත්තා ලෙස විද්‍යාලයේ වර්තමාන විදුහල්පති දිමුතු දෙරනගොඩ මැතිතුමාද, එහි විශේෂ ආරාධිත අමුත්තා ලෙස අප සංගමයේ හිටපු සභාපති වත්මන් උපදේශක කිත්සිරි සිල්වා මැතිතුමාද සහභාගී විය.

Old Boys’ Association of Sri Sumangala College is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2022 and one of its goals is to have Sumangalians in the top 10 school chess players.

As part of achieving that goal, SSCOBA organized a Western Province Individual Chess Championship on December 18, 2019, at the Somathilaka Witharana Auditorium at Sri Sumangala College.

The Principal of Sri Sumangala College, Dimuthu Deranagoda graced the awards ceremony as the chief guest and Past President of SSCOBA and Present Advisor, Kithsiri Silva graced the occasion as the guest of honor.

Limited stock of the official SSCOBA T-Shirts are available to purchase now.

Call Thalis on 077 764 1601 or 070 394 0940 and grab yours now.

Old Boys’ Association of Sri Sumangala College – Panadura organizing a Western Province Chess Championship on 18th December 2019 at the College Auditorium.

There will be separate girls and boys games in Under 9, Under 11, Under 13, Under 15 and Under 20. Parents also can participate in the Parents’ Event.

To register, SMS Player Name, Birthday, Gender, Name of the School or Club to 070 394 0940. Entry fee is Rs 1,000/-

Call Ishan on 0717 073 531 or Kumarasiri on 0777 716 214 for more details.

Executive Committee of the Old Boys’ Association of Sri Sumangala College – Panadura went on the annual trip to Hadunkanada ECO Resort in Udugala, Kalawana on Sunday, October 20, 2019.

The SSCOBA’s Past President and the present advisor Sanath De Silva’s interview with “Silumina”, weekly Sinhala newspaper in Sri Lanka on his recent achievements on building modern cloud-based software.

Read the interview: Silumina Website | Epaper

The 97th Old Boys’ Day commemoration concluded last Sunday, October 27, 2019, with a huge success.

The oldest old boy of SSCOBA Mr. I G Perera graced the occasion as the distinguished guest. A series of events including a medical camp, a blood donation camp, a scholarship awarding to the University entrants and needy students of the college, felicitation of student who topped the grade 5 scholarship exam, awarding prizes and certificates to oratory and quiz competition winners and offering alms to elderly homes and children’s homes were conducted by the SSCOBA with the collaboration of Junior OBA and Old Boys’ Medical Association.

The support received from the principal and the academic and non-academic staff of the college was excellent. Representatives of all related associations of SSCOBA participated in the event.

SSCOBA wishes to extend its sincere gratitude to all stakeholders who contributed in numerous ways to make the 97th OBA Day program a real success.