at Linden Drive on 6 June 1999. The school's chairperson, Ling Siew May, officiated the ceremony. Nanyang Girls' Boarding School on Linden Drive began operating in December 1999. Launch of Integrated Programme In 2005, the school began the six-year Integrated Programme in partnership with Hwa Chong Institution to enable academically able students to skip the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examinations and proceed to take the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examinations at the end of Year 6. In 2013, NYGH became the first girls' school in Singapore to be conferred the Singapore Quality Award (SQA). It was also named an Apple Distinguished School in 2015. Nanyang Girls' High School introduced the Humanities Programme (HP) in 2008, training students who are identified to be talented in the humanities. HP students are offered Philosophy, Advanced Literature, Advanced Geography and Advanced History as well as the opportunity to participate in national and international humanities-based competitions and projects. Such competitions include the Humanities and Social Science Research Programme (HSSRP), Moot Parliament Programme (MPP), Leadership Development Programme (LDP) and various Model United Nations conferences (MUN). The Science and Math Talent Program (SMTP) was introduced in 2009, for students who are gifted in Sciences and Mathematics. They are offered the Stanford EPGY Mathematics Course as part of the program. In 2012, Nanyang Girls' High School initiated the formation of the Strategic Alliance of Global Educators (SAGE) with nine other schools from Singapore, the United States, Australia, China and the United Kingdom, and organised the inaugural SAGE conference for educators from all parts of the world in August 2012. In 2014, it initiated the Strategic Educational Alliance of Southeast Asia (SEA2) with nine other founding schools from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam, Thailand and Brunei, and hosted the inaugural three-day regional conference learning journey at NYGH. The National University of Singapore's Department of Southeast Asian Studies was the conference partner of the event. List of NYGH Principals School culture and identity The first school logo of NYGH was a diamond-shaped motif with the school's name in Chinese printed in white against a light blue background. It was designed by Chen Jun Wen, an art teacher at the school. In 1968, the diamond-shaped motif was superimposed on top of a yellow ring emblem with the words "Nanyang Girls' High" printed on it. The ring emblem was positioned above a yellow banner printed with the school motto, in