STEM workshops for Chung Hua High School students from Seremban

UTAR STEM Outreach organised STEM workshops for 33 students from Chong Hwa High School on 4 December 2023 at UTAR Sungai Long Campus. The workshops were conducted by Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science academics Dr Ong Ying Hui, Dr Thiam Hui San, Ir Dr Chong Woon Chan, Dr Gulnaziya Issabayeva and M. Kandiah Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MK FMHS) Head of Department of Surgery Clinical Assoc Prof Dr Yan Naing Soe. Among the workshops conducted were Chemical Engineering, Gas Chromatography, Scanning Electron Microscope, and Adsorption Column Demonstration for Water Treatment.

The high school students also had the opportunity to participate in the “Healthcare Exploration Day”, organised by the students of MK FMHS. Among the activities held at the “Healthcare Exploration Day” were talks on programmes such as Nursing, Traditional and Complementary Medicine, Physiotherapy and Medicine; hands-on activities, explaining the mechanism, clinical significance and demonstration of pupil dilation and knee jerk reflex; competition on rearrangement of anatomy model; interactive CPR sessions; cardiac cycle presentation, and demonstration on ECG.

 

Group photo of students, teachers and facilitators

Dr Gulnaziya (second from left) demonstrating the adsorption column for water treatment

Dr Thiam (far right) explaining gas chromatography to students

Dr Ong delivering a talk titled “Chemical Engineering: What is it?”

Dr Chong explaining scanning electron microscope (SEM) to students

Students learning how to measure blood pressure and listen to heartbeat using the stethoscope

Students learning how to check pupil

Demonstration of knee jerk reflex

Students practising CPR

Students learning about the cardiac cycle and ECG

Group photo with UTAR Surgical Society