The UTAR STEM
Outreach organised “STEM Outreach” for forty Senior 3 students from Kuen
Cheng High School and forty Form 5 students from SMK Perimbun at Kuen Cheng
High School and UTAR Sungai Long Campus respectively on 24 June 2023. The
objective of the events was to stimulate secondary school students’ interest
towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).
Group photo with
40 Kuen Cheng High School students
Students trying
their hands at operating fruit battery
There were two
activities conducted by UTAR Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and
Science academic Dr Sim Lan Ching and Centre for Foundation Studies (CFS) of
Sungai Long Campus academic Lim Chee Siong for the Kuen Cheng High School
students; Get the Fun in Chemistry Study and Fruit Battery. Two talks titled
“Chemical Engineers” and “Exploring the Everyday Significance of
Mathematics” and two workshops titled “Spray Drying of Milk Powder” and
“Walking and Running Gait Analysis” were conducted for SMK Perimbun students
by LKC FES academic staff. Thereafter, a campus tour was conducted for SMK
Perimbun students to introduce the UTAR Campus.
Group photo with
40 SMK Perimbun students
Students during the “Exploring the Everyday Significance of Mathematics”
talk
“Spray Drying of
Milk Powder” workshop
A teacher
participating in walking and running gait analysis
On top of that,
a workshop titled “The Heart Touching Moment 3.0” was organised on the same
day for ten children aged five to ten years old at UTAR Sungai Long Campus.
The workshop also saw the participation of ten parents and it was
facilitated by CFS academic Heng Sze Lu. The event aimed to spark excitement
and create awareness about STEM among children and parents.
A total of five
sessions, involving various educational activities, were conducted for the
children and parents. The activities conducted during the workshop included
an introduction to the circulatory system, listening to the heartbeat using
a stethoscope, dissecting a goat’s heart, assembling organs in a human model
and making a heart key chain.
Overall, the
students gained valuable knowledge and experience through the activities and
workshops throughout the STEM Outreach programme.
Heart Touching
Moment 3.0 with children and parents
Heng dissecting
a goat’s heart
Children and
parents being introduce to circulatory system
Assembling
organs in a human model
Making a heart
key chain
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