We would like to thank volunteers from IHS Markit Penang office for volunteering their time to check and reformat laptops from our laptops-on-loan program for students. Over 130 laptops were checked and reformatted over the course of one week with the help of more than 20 volunteers!
Continuing from the secondary school session, we conducted another virtual Youth TechCamp with 9 undergraduate students. Throughout the 2-day workshop with the theme of “Receive.Process.Create”, student leaders learned how to differentiate between facts and opinions, identify fake photos in the media and lastly, create factually accurate infographic from vetted online content. Now, the student leaders…
We conducted our inaugural virtual Youth TechCamp for 60 student leaders from secondary schools. The 3-day workshop with the theme of “Receive. Process. Create” enabled student leaders to differentiate facts and opinions, identify fake photos in the media, and lastly, create factually accurate infographic from vetted online content. Now, the student leaders have emerged as…
Last week, over 200 students from secondary schools in Penang attended the Keysight After School 2021 (Virtual Workshop). This workshop was pack-filled with activities such as a virtual tour to the Keysight Auditorium, interactive sessions, Electrical and Mechanical Workshop conducted by Keysight Technologies employees, video-sharing and quizzes! At the end of the workshop, Mr Jerry…
Thanks to the fundraising efforts from Rotary Club Butterworth, students and teachers from Sekolah Kebangsaan St. Mark Butterworth are now equipped with laptops and learning kits to learn electronics and coding using micro:bit!
Here are some amazing teachers we would like to highlight – replacing RAM during downtime! Thanks to our funders and with the support from JPNPP, we are able to work with teachers from over 90 schools to upgrade the RAM of netbooks in schools to ensure that students can have a better learning experience.
We are grateful for the support from Micron Malaysia that enabled over 35 students from 4 schools in Penang to be able to learn digitally. Yes, even as school reopen, there is still a widespread need for devices and connectivity as digital learning becomes more and more common.
In the first week of March 2021, GET 2021 was kickstarted with a virtual soft launch. Over 120 people were in attendance—54 female students who were shortlisted from 7 schools across Penang, over 60 female industry volunteers from engineering and technology background, industry supporters, as well as GET Core Team members. The event started off…
Update: E-Learning Computer Initiative Shout out to all these dedicated teachers who helped us identify students in need and came all the way to PSC@Heritage to collect laptops to be distributed to students from their respective schools. We hope that these laptops will help enable more students learn at home during this difficult times.
Update: Project Lit Up In late 2020, Penang Science Cluster launched Project Lit Up and distributed over 200 tablets containing Kit Kit School app to children aged 4 to 6 years old from high need communities across Penang, Malaysia. The children came to the distribution session accompanied by parents who took precious time off work,…