DNAL 2020 Finale #myDigitalMaker Fair

Those 9 weeks come to today’s finale.

We are glad and proud to be part of this year’s Digital Ninja Accelerator Program, as technical content provider:- Arduino Microcontroller Robotics, Rapid Prototyping 3D Design and Raspberry Pi Internet of Things.

To all finalist, all the best.

Battle of the Digital Ninja 2020 (Finale)

From 24 competing teams to 6 team finalist who will be battling ‘Shark Tank’ to garner cash pledges from esteemed panel of judges :Dr Qhamariah binti Samu Deputy Director, Resource and Educational Technology Division, Ministry of Education of MalaysiaDato’Ng Wan PengCOO, Malaysia Economic Development Corporation Dato’ Seri Ivan TehGroup CEO, Fusionex InternationalJohary MustaphaCEO, Forest InteractiveNizam RashidGeneral Manager, UMP Technology Sdn Bhd Nor Aini Abd JalilHead Product Management, Petronas Dagangan These teams are from the Digital Ninja Accelerator LabX 2020 program where111 students ages 11 years old till 16 years old from 12 Primary schools and 97 Secondary Schools participate to be trainedand uoskilled in tech, digital making skills and critical soft skills.

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Among interesting topics that caught my attention 🙂 in this year’s Digital Maker Fair program:-

  • Non-Banking Roles in Banks: Find your way.

Panelists discuss on the impact and opportunity with data science in today’s digital banking business. Being curious, agile is important as it opens the door for expansion.

  • Artificial Intelligence goes to School

Among topics in AI that could be incorporated in school curriculum are problem solving, reasoning, planning, natural language understanding, computer vision, automatic programming and machine learning. Data analysis is the essence and being analytical does help to take AI ecosystem to the the young students.

AI does sounds intimidating, well as one might imagine that there must be together with robot or some sophisticated elements. However, AI starts with a simple statistics which can grow into regression model to other complicated models.

Understanding, analyzing and manipulating data are among AI features and can be easily incorporated in school curriculum.

  • Future Farm

Panelist discuss on modern farming systems targeting household market. Today, many of us are into growing our own food in our home. Precision  are the essence in indoor farming systems.

  • Be Your Own Boss

Laura waked through her personal experience in making the path of her company in Gig economy. Being visible in Linkedin was her stepping stone to her successful career today. Among tips shared were to use the right #tags and make trending postings.

  • E-sports in School

 

 

  • Reimagining Schools

An interesting quote from the moderator was being an educator is like walking through a time machine, where by one learn in a past education system, however teach in current education setup, and are required to prepare the generation for the future education setup :).

well, isn’t that interesting!!!

 

  • The 30s Pitch Challenge

We live in a fast moving era today. 30-seconds is only what it takes to be within ones attention span – the meaningful moment 🙂 .

Here, Laura and Tyler shared the tips and tricks to grab that moments, which include answering the following q’s:-

    1. who are you?
    2. what do you do and why?
    3. what makes you different from the others?
    4.  + Energy

Project Ninja Slot 6 @ SK Sultan Ahmad

42 school children and teachers participated in this program, held in SK Sultan Ahmad Pekan.

The program embeds UMP STEM Bot module which is broadly divided into 3 segments as below:- 

  1. Introduction to signal behavior: digital/analog input, digital/analog output  
    • here, students start to do simple programming instructions to light the LEDs on the STEM Bot, variations of blinking sequence,
    • later move on into reading analog signals from IR sensors 
    • and writing signals on OLED 
  2. Robot Movement: PWM, motor direction
    • moving into the second segment, students start to to program UMP STEM Bot as a robot – time based (movement based on time), following certain routes such as forward, reverse, square, and round
  3. Line following robotics: line detection, junction choices  
    • in the final segment, students program UMP STEM Bot to follow certain routes (based on a given line track) as well as taking junctions.


Student Internship Visit

Visited UMP student, Rabiatul Adawiyah, who is currently in her internship period in TNB Pekan.

A walk through the electric meter reader in TNB Pekan, from the conventional analog to the current digital version.

Evaluated another intern in TKD Lambda, Phang Kha Seng, via an online meeting.

My Digital Maker Fair

Happening this week, https://mydigitalmakerfair.com, offers a variety of online activities, from general webinar on the future of education, STEM workshops and forums.

One session that took my attention is the Cyber Security Curriculum for young children, presented by Mr Bruce Fuda. Such an inspiring session especially when Mr Fuda shared his delivery approach to simplify the cyber security elements, such as encryption,  network and information security – to suit 10-12 years old children.

Looking forward to embed this in our outreach programs soon, inSyaAllah.

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Project Ninja Slot 5 @ SK Sinar Mutiara

Located in the pineapple plantation area, SK Sinar Mutiara is one of a rural school in Pekan that we engaged in Project Ninja’s Program. 42 school children and teachers participated in this program.

UMP STEM Bot is utilized in the program. This STEM Bot offers a wide spectrum of learning platform for programming. Programming is an art of giving instructions. Precisions and consistency in laying giving these instructions is crucial especially when it involve communication to hardware.

UMP STEM Bot is an open source Arduino Nano based development kit that offers everything young makers and programmers need. The microcontroller can be programmed using open-source platforms which are the Arduino programming, the graphical programming mBlock as well as the MIT App Inventor.

The kit is equipped with LEDs, infra-red sensors and Bluetooth module. Also available are an ultrasonic sensor and a pair of micro motors and tyres. Bluetooth communication module are also available for users to explore remote controlled projects. The expansion and components replacement of the UMP STEM Bot kit is convenient as it is developed using on-the-shelves products that are accessible online.

The UMP STEM Bot complements KPM primary and secondary schools’ syllabus on computational thinking, computer programming, robotics.

For juniors, primary school, we adopt MBlock as a platform to program UMP STEM Bot such as below:-

 

 

 

Project Ninja Slot 4 @ SK Seri Biram

Mentored by Mok Ren Hao and Goh Ming Qian, 42 students and teachers participated in the Project Ninja (Slot 4) @SK Seri Biram.

School children are exposed to robot programming (MBlock) utilizing the UMP STEM Bot technology.

MBlock programming allows junior learners to focus on programming concepts with minimal interruptions of syntax errors. These concepts are introduced in block forms – ranging from events, loops, variables – to sequential, conditional, events and loops.