2. What are my students lacking?
Academic
Soft skills
Aspirations
Perceptions
• Low English
literacy
• Low
numeracy
• Lack of
critical
thinking skills
• Lack of
problem
solving skills
• Clueless
about future
career goals
• Many
interested in
STEM jobs
but do not
know where
to start
• Schools are
not preparing
them for jobs
in the future
• School is not
fun
• Computers =
games and
facebook

3. National Agenda
ICT Market in Malaysia
9
8
7
RM (‘ billion)
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
2006
2008
2013
• NKEA to bring
Malaysia to highincome nation
• ICT Market growth
exceeds GDP
growth
• Generates
quaternary industry
(K-economy) for the
country

4. National Agenda
ICT students enrollment in tertiary institutions
140000
120000
100000
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
2002
2003
2004
2005
Public University
2006
2007
Private University
2008
2009
2010
2011
Total
Declining ICT graduates in the country

5. In fifteen years we’ll be teaching programming just like
reading and writing. We’ll be looking back and wondering why
we didn’t do it sooner.
It would be wonderful if every kid wrote computer programs
and understood how computers work. It would certainly
make you a better thinker.

6. Project Vision
• English literacy
• Coding knowledge
• Numeracy skills
•
•
•
•
Computational thinking skills
Confidence in dealing with complex problems
Persistence to work through difficult problems
Team work
• Interest in STEM jobs
• Entrepreneurship
• Lifelong skills
Achievement
Affect
Access

7. Project Summary
• Twice per week coding class that
uses Exploring Computer Science
(ECS)’s curriculum
• Holiday classes
• Intensives
•
•
•
•
Fund-raising activities by the students
Student hackathon
TS Consulting
Pitching practice
• Field trips
• TS Incubator for start up
• Mini internship

8. Main beneficiaries
Balance
gender ratio
Priority given
to form 2,3
and 4
30 students

9. Timeline
Preparation
• Making the necessary
connection
• Recruiting students
• Preparing the
curriculum
Enrichment
• Enrichment of the
students' experience
in the project
National
movement
Execution
Conclusion
• Execution of the
curriculum
• Recruitment of
volunteer teachers
• Sustainability and
scaling up preparation

10. Key Performance Index
Program
completion
rate of 90%
Completes at least 3
assignments
TS
Consulting
TS
Incubator
Launch of 2 start ups

11. What we need:
• Volunteers to help
tutor
• Mentors for students’
start up
• Guest speakers for
INSPIRE series talk
• Laptops
• Microprocessors
(Eg. Raspberry or
Arduino)
• Robotics supplies
(Eg. Lego
Mindstorm EV3)
• Corporate sponsorship
• Corporate support

12. David Chak
T : 6-017-6884105
M:shanchun.chak2013@teachformalaysia.org)