Proposal on STEM Club- Sri KDU Primary

School

Starting Date: 20th February 2019

Age Group: 7 to 12 years old

Company Profile & Background
STEM Academy Malaysia is formally owned by Vooble Asia Sdn Bhd and now
being owned by STEAM Education Sdn Bhd. It is under the same
management team of SCS Education Group, in which the sister academy,
MTTC Academy is offering architectural & engineering professional courses in
tertiary level and also life-long training for working professionals.

The co-founders of STEM Academy Malaysia are Mr SK Chew, an Electrical

Engineer by profession and Ms Charlenne Ong, an architectural graduate.
Both of the co-founders find that there is a need to instill strong interest in
STEM education for younger generation.

The future workforce is about learning the right skills to survive and succeed
in the workplace. They need to be extremely adaptive to the fast-changing
environment. They need to learn new skills in a very fast pace.

Education may be the passport to the future, but for all the good teaching
out there, it would seem that schools are failing to impart some of the most
important life skills, according to one educational expert.

Dr. Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard's Change Leadership Group, argues

that today's school children are facing a "global achievement gap", which is
the gap between what even the best schools are teaching and the skills
young people need to learn.

In STEM Academy, we create our syllabus based on the above guidelines,

implementing the creative course outlines and standards. We then certified
the kids with the Warnborough College (UK) Certificate of Completion.

STEM Academy Malaysia is the 1st Design Engineering School for children
aged 7-15 in Malaysia.
Summary of Proposal

Objective of 1. To offer STEM programme as part of the

the Proposal Extra Co-curriculum Activities for Sri KDU
Primary School.
Programme STEM Club
to be Length of course: 8 months (2 semesters)
delivered Proposed date of training: 20th February - 20th
October 2020

Course Please refer page

Content
Training Classroom training, hands-on activities and
Approach experiments for STEM Club members

Venue of Sri KDU Primary School

Training
Training 3D printers
Facilities
Cost of Please refer page
Training

Proposed Deliverables
Semester 1:

Wee Theme Project Learning

k Objectives
1 Building Build a Water raft:  Learn about
Students work engineering design
together to build a process.
boat out of straws and
plastic wrap that can  Experience
hold 25 pnnies for physical principles
atleast 10 seconds of buoyancy
before sinking.
2 Build a basketball
goal and shooter:  Describe how force
In this activity affects the motion
Students plan, design, of a projectile.
and execute their own
ideas for creating a  Understand which
basketball shooter material are best
and goal. After they and can go
have completed their farthest.
activity, there is time
for reflection on what
worked and what
didn't.
3 Build a rescue  Understand and
device: realize how
In this design engineering can be
challenge students used in real life
are required to build a problems.
rescue device with
materials given. The  Build team work
purpose will be to and prolem-soving
rescue 4 puppies skills.
(small marshmallows)
from a pit.  Design and build a
rescue device.

4 Build a marble  Understand the

Rollercoaster: principles of
In this activity conversion of
students work in energy.
groups to build a
 roller coaster with at  Know that
least one loop and mechanical energy
one jump, forms gravitational
demonstrating how potential energy
potential energy and kinetic energy.
transforms into kinetic
energy.  Learn about
transfer of energy.
5 Art Drawing Robot:  Learn to build an
This can be an art bot.
individual activity.
Each student will be  Learn to make the
given a set of drawing robot
materials and they’ll moving.
build a robot that will
start coloring when  Learn to connect
switched on. motor with
batteries.
6 Pendulam painting:  Learn the effect of
Students create a force on pendulam.
painting with a new
painting technique by  Learn about the
exchanging the paint forces of motion
brush for a swinging and gravity.
pendulum which
engage them with the  Create an abstract
combination of art paiting.
and science.
7 LED Birthday Card:  Learn to light up a
In this activity LED with coin
students complte a battery.
circuit to light up a
LED and then attatch  Decorate cards to
it on a birthday card. make them more
appealing.
8 Coffee filter  Learn about
Flowers: science of
Students learn to solubility.
make flowers with
coffee filters and
marker colours.
9 Nature Sun shelter:  Demonstrate
Students will be asked knowledge of the
to build a sun shelter engineering and
for their pet animal. design process by
The shelter needs to creating a
 be thick enough so structure that
that sunlight cannot provides shade.
come insight.
10 Create a Maze:  Realize and aware
In this activity, of the core aspects
students will design of the nature
and build a marble around them.
maze run from simple
materials. It should  Learn to predict
have only 1 possible outcomes and
way from start to the draw conclusions.
end, others should be
dead ends.
11 Wind Vane:  Learn about the air
In this activity, movement by
students learnt the making a wind
direction of wind by vane.
building a wind vane.
Students will be given  Understand how to
materials needed and measure the
make their own wind direction of wind.
vane which will later
be tested by a fan.
12 Design a seed  Learn about types
Challenge: of seeds and their
The engineering ways of dispersion.
challenge will be to
design three different  Follow through a
seeds and test out design process of
their abilities. repeated
Students will design designing, testing
one that is meant to and redesigning.
fly in the breeze, one
that will float in water,
and another that will
stick to something
fuzzy.
13 Architecture Earth quake  Understand basic
resistant structure: principles of design
Students will be and the
challenged to build a importance of a
structure that can solid foundation.
withstand simulated
earthquake vibrations  Work together in a
and increasing weight team to design and
and pressure. build a structure.
14 3 little pigs  Understand that
challenge: some shapes and
Students will make 3 materials increase
different houses with a building’s
3 different materials; stability.
Paper, Straws and
wood. Then a fan (big,  Identify which
bad wolf) will be used. designs can and
One by one each cannot withstand
house will be placed the self-weightas
infront of the fan to well as a lateral
check which house wind load.
can withstand and
which house collapse  Understand how
when put infront of and why engineers
the fan. design new and
better buildings to
withstand
tornadoes.
15 Play ground:  Enhance the
Students will be engineering skills
divided into groups and creativity.
and required to write
 Learn to work as a
out their plan before
team and improve
building their communcation
playground. Then skills.
build a playground
with atleast four sets
of swings and then
they will write a
reflective report on
what difficulties they
have faced during the
process on building it.
16 Build a Bell Tower:  Work as a team
Students will build a and apply STEM
free standing tower principles while
with a bell attached creating a tower.
on top and the
students have to  Build the tallest
design a way to ring structure using
the bell- without just only the supplies
shaking the structure. given.

 Learn how
engineers plan,
design and build a
product from its
inception to its
completion.
Semester 2:

Wee Theme Project Learning Outcome

k
1 Electronics Pocket flashlight:  Make a LED pocket
Students will be given flashlight.
a soft board, a coin
battery and a LED  Learn how switches
control the flow of
light in order to build
electricity.
their own pocket
flashlight. This activity  Learn how the
allows student to be electric circuit and
creative as they can battery within a
design the shape and flashlight operates.
also color of their
pocket flashlight.

2 Fuel level Detector  Learn about

Students will engineer design, testing,
a sensor that can and
detect how much fuel troubleshooting.
is in the tank. This
design challenge may  Learn how fuel
require complex level detectors
motor skills, while work while
understanding the imroving their
abstract concepts. engineering and
motor skills.
3 Safe stopping  Learn about
Robot: conductors and
In this activity non-conductors of
students will engineer electricity.
a robot that turns
itself off when it  Importance of a
leaves a safe area. switch in a circuit.
4 Tiny dancers:  Learn about lorentz
Students will build a force and how it
basic homopolar works.
motor and learn how
the motor actually  Learn to use
works, then make tiny Copper wire
dancers that should
dance properly on a
 battery.
5 Space Space lander:  Design a shock-
exploration students will design absorbing lander.
and build a shock-
absorbing system that  Enhance critical
will protect two thinking and
"astronauts" from problem-solving
falling out when they skills.
land.
6 Build a Rocket:  Learn about the
Students work science behind
in teams to construct rockets.
and launch paper
rockets using a PVC-  Learn about
pipe launcher. Based engineering design
on the flight and redesign.
performance of their
rockets, analyze their
rocket designs, modify
or rebuild them,
launch again, and
calculate the altitude
achieved to determine
if their changes
affected the
performance of the
rocket.

7 Build a moon  Learn the

habitat: importance of
Students will build a airlock in the moon
moon habitat and as habitat.
with any Moon
habitat, it must have  Learn about the
an airlock. The airlock requirements
is a small room characterictics of a
between the door to moon habitat.
the outside and the
door to the inside.

8 Build a space tool:  Learn about

Studennts will design dificiulties
a tool that an astronauts face
astronaut could use to while collecting
pick up an object in samples in space.
 space.
 Build a functional
space tool.
9 Engineering Balloon powered  Test and refine
car: their designs.
In this activity
students will construct  Learn about third
their balloon powered law of Newton.
cars from simple
materials, test them
along a measured
track, then work to
modify them for
improved
performance.
10 Design a  Learn about
Parachute: relation between
Students create a air resistance and
parachute using gravity.
different materials
they think will work  Choose best
best. They test their material for a
designs to check parachute.
which paper material
worked best.  Learn science
behind parachute.
11 Wind powered  Build a turbine that
Turbine: moves with air.
The students will build
a machine that  Learn to work as a
converts wind power team and improve
into mechanical communcation
energy. skills.
12 Egg drop challenge:  Learn about gravity
In this challenge and gravitational
students need to build pull.
a covering around an
egg to stop a raw egg  Explore the
from breaking when possibility of
dropped from a landing the egg
certain height. safely on ground.

 Solve real life

problems related
to gravity.
13 Built Water filter:  Choose
Environment Students will be appropriate
divided into groups to materials to make
build a water filter a water filtration
from given materials device.
in order to get clean
water when tested  Learn about
with dirty water. engineering
design.

 Learn about
planning and
construction.
14 Bird feeder:  Learn about the
This engineering kinds of foods birds
challenge will eat.
encourage creative
problem solving and  Build a design
designing skills while follows function
understanding the bird feeder.
needs of birds in the
environment.
15 Oil Spill activity:  Learn about
Students will be environmental
divided into groups engineering.
who need to clean up  Increase
“oil” from a simulated understanding of
oil spill disaster that an oil spill disaster
includes feathers to and environmental
represent marine life. consequences.

16 Recycled craft :  Think of new ways

Students will need to to make the Earth
make something new a better place to
from the recycled live.
materials such as a
robot, pen holder or  Understand the
wallet. They will need importance of
to be creative in order recycling.
to create something
new from reused item.  To be more
creative in making
new things out of
used materials.
 P1: Build a Grabber Challenge

P2: Design a Marble Maze Challenge

P3: 3D Pen Doodling

P4: Design a rescue device

P5: Create a Painting Robot

Example of a session of Engineering Week (Each activity

takes 30 minutes to an hour):

1. Build a Water raft Challenge

In this activity, students work together to build a boat out of straws and

plastic wrap that can hold 25 pennies for at least 10 seconds before sinking.

Learning outcome:

 Engineering design process

 Physical principles of buoyancy

2. Build and Design a Paper Penny Bridge

In this activity, students build a bridge from a single sheet of paper and up to

five paper clips that will span 20cm and support the weight of 100 pennies.

Being realistic, they need to consider the limited budgets and must make

trade-offs in material.

Learning outcome:

 Engineering design process

 Physical forces

3. Design a Water Filter

In this activity, students will be divided into groups to build a water filter

from given materials in order to get clean water when tested with dirty

water.

Learning Outcome:

 Creativity (Design method)

 Problem Solving Skills
Learning Outcome at the end of programme:

 Creativity
 Test and refine designs.
 Communicate design process and results
 Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills
 Curiosity & Imagination
 Practice fine motor and eye-hand coordination.
 Improve and learn through trial and error
 Good Oral & Communication Skills
 Accessing & Analyzing Information
 Learn about structural engineering.
 Learn about engineering design and redesign.
 Learn how engineering can help solve society's challenges.
 Learn about teamwork and problem solving.

Pricing:

Description Amount (RM)

Fees per semester (RM320 x4) 1280