On 9 June 2020, Senior Vice President of Global operations at Broadcom, Dato Ooi Boon Chye handed a personal sponsorship of RM20,000 for Methodist Boy School (MBS) under the StepUP Initiative.
StepUP is a programme aimed at bringing interesting STEM-learning extra-curricular workshops and activities to schools in Penang to complement the teaching of Science and Mathematics in schools under the formal curriculum.
A former NASA administrator and astronaut, Major General Charles Bolden, had visited two of Penang STEM Centres recently, namely Penang Science Cluster (PSC) and Tech Dome Penang. The visits were organised in co-operation with the US Embassy of Malaysia. Since the world is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the history of the first moon landing, he eventually made his visits to Penang to share on the experiences, besides strengthening the US and Malaysia partnerships.
By Emilia Ismail.
Penang STEM and the six centres under its eco-system, namely Tech Dome Penang, Penang Science Cluster, Penang Math Platform, @CAT, Penang Skills Development Centre and Penang Digital Library, successfully organised its inaugural Penang STEM Carnival 2018 last July, as yet another of its numerous key initiatives to spark curiosity and interest amongst the younger generations towards Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
By Emilia Ismail.
Penang STEM and the six centres under its eco-system, namely Tech Dome Penang, Penang Science Cluster, Penang Math Platform, @CAT, Penang Skills Development Centre and Penang Digital Library, successfully organised its inaugural Penang STEM Carnival 2018 last July, as yet another of its numerous key initiatives to spark curiosity and interest amongst the younger generations towards Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
[ Article was extracted from Penang Monthly website (written by Emilia Ismail on June 2018) ] Computer coding teaches kids to think outside the box, work collaboratively and reason systematically. It is a skill for the future. Are we shifting our focus from teaching children how to write, to teaching them how to code? “Since …
The jury is still out. Will the extreme digitization of businesses and industries rolling through the fourth industrial revolution result in an alarming loss or whopping gain of jobs? What should you do now? Job Maker or Job Killer? An excerpt from a Boston Consulting Group press release in 2015, …
Making physical artifacts, bikinis, fashion toys and trinkets are mundane stuffs you can do with a 3D printer. They are printing houses in Russia, model concept cars in Japan, fighter jet parts in UK and customized spacecraft and instrument parts at NASA. The ominous part is that this creative technology might also be used to destroy. …
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An excerpt from the President’s message, at Toyota’s website clearly expresses the intention of one of the world’s largest corporation to be future- ready. Do you have the same intention? In the fourth paragraph, Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota Motor declares to the world, “Our circumstances are likely to change in the future and there …