Tag: STEM Outreach

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.

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.

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.

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:-

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Those 5 weeks were a great one. Now it is it. All the best in your pitch and demo.

 

 

• Before Program

PRE TEST

 

 

• • After Program

POST TEST

 

 

Day 3 – Training by Cik Norashiken.

Day 2 – Interactive websites are more appealing in the context of engaging the content owner with users. One exercise to simulate this is via Game Design activity. On an HTML web, this could be achieved via the JavaScript embedment. Today, the training continues with a simple game construction, which contains canvas creation, components, control mechanism, obstacle behaviors and scoring system.

Relevant training materials are listed here:-

SK Game Design (Javascript)

Day 1 – Together with Cik Norasyikin, we’ll be handing Computer Science Course for teachers in Pahang. Topics covered include:-

• Web Styling in CSS
• Javascript – Game Design

Relevant training materials are listed here:-

SK Web Design (CSS)

1. Web Styling Concepts

2. Web Styling Online Class (CPD)