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This document discusses a project aimed at improving students' academic, soft, and career skills through coding education. It notes students currently lack English and math literacy, critical thinking, and career goals. The project will provide twice weekly coding classes using Exploring Computer Science curriculum, along with holiday classes and intensives. Students will gain skills in computational thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and entrepreneurship. Beneficiaries include 30 Form 2-4 students balanced by gender. The timeline outlines preparation, execution, enrichment, and sustainability phases. Key targets are a 90% completion rate and two student startups launched. Support is requested in the form of volunteers, mentors, speakers, equipment, and funding.
Project ace deck (for email purpose)
- 2. What are mystudents 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 Marketin 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 studentsenrollment 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 yearswe’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 • Englishliteracy • 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 • Twiceper 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 Prioritygiven to form 2,3 and 4 30 students
- 9. Timeline Preparation • Making thenecessary 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 rateof 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)