On 9 November 2013, Assoc. Prof. Voravuth Thepthong, Vice-President for Administration and University Council Affairs, representing the president of STOU, presided over a ceremony for the customary donation of monks' robes for the Thot Kathin festival at Wat Jong Kham, a royal temple in the Muang district of Mae Hong Son Province. As this was a royal Kathin ceremony, STOU was donating the robes in the name of the King. In preparation for the ceremony, STOU collected donations from staff, students, alumni and the general public and offered these donations, over 1,400,000 baht, to the temple.