Kenapa Pendidikan STEM diperlukan?
1. Kita berada dalam era 4IR dan Society 5.0.
2. Dalam era ini, teknologi digital telah mendominasi semua sektor pekerjaan sehingga berlakunya apa yang disebut sebagai "digital disruption".
3. Ini membawa kepada kewujudan pekerjaan baharu seperti "Data Scientist and Analyst", "AI and Machine Learning Specialist", "Big Data Specialist" dan lain-lain.
4. Pekerjaan-pekerjaan baharu ini memerlukan kemahiran yang melibatkan kebolehan untuk berfikir seperti Pemikiran Analitikal dan Inovasi, Pemikiran Kritis dan Kreatif, Penyelesaian Masalah Kompleks dan lain-lain.
5. Kemahiran-kemahiran tersebut dapat diterapkan melalui pendidikan STEM yang dilaksanakan secara berasaskan masalah, berasaskan projek dan berasaskan inkuiri.
6. Pendidikan STEM yang baik mestilah berbentuk hands-on, mimik kepada kehidupan sebenar, mengintegrasikan sains dan matematik secara seamless dan mengaplikasikan konsep Engineering Design Process (EDP).
7. Melalui pendidikan STEM seperti yang disebutkan di atas, murid berkemungkinan besar dapat membangunkan kemahiran pemikiran kritikal, pembelajaran kendiri, komunikasi dan kolaborasi yang hebat, penyelesaian masalah dan kreativiti.
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StepUP Sponsorship for MBS by Dato’ Ooi Boon Chye
On 9 June 2020, Senior Vice President of Global operations at Broadcom, Dato Ooi Boon Chye handed a personal sponsorship of RM20,000 for Methodist Boy School (MBS) under the StepUP Initiative.
StepUP is a programme aimed at bringing interesting STEM-learning extra-curricular workshops and activities to schools in Penang to complement the teaching of Science and Mathematics in schools under the formal curriculum.
The programme aimed at sparking the interests of lower secondary students and inspiring them to pursue higher studies and future careers in related fields.
Under the StepUP Initiative, industry players such as MNCs, SMEs, local corporations and others adopt schools of their choice to help fund STEM programmes to be conducted by the 5 participating centres under Penang STEM, namely PSDC, TDP, CAT, PMP, and PDL
StepUP was jointly initiated by Penang STEM and the Penang Education Department through its North East District Office and was launched in September last year.
Dato’ Ooi also presented a sponsorship plaque to Dato’ Khoo Cheok Sin (Chairman of the MBS Board of Governors) which was witnessed by Mr. Richard Chung, General Manager of Penang STEM, Northeast District Deputy Education Officer Mr. Abdul Said, School Principal, Mr Lau Chong Beng and other school teachers.
In his short address, Dato’ Ooi said that he was happy to help out the school since it was his alma mater and it was aimed at encouraging students to excel in Mathematics and Science. “Nowadays, parents are too worried about their kids being under pressure for studying Mathematics which I personally think it is not true. We need more engineers in my company and so does the country.”
He also mentioned in his speech that he hopes to be able to carry on supporting the school. He hopes that the StepUP initiative could give the encouragement to the children to have more interest in Science and Mathematics.
Dato’ Ooi is currently responsible for managing Broadcom’s worldwide manufacturing, outsourcing, procurement, order management, planning and logistic, and Quality Organizations. He was also the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations from 2003 until 2008.
Prior to Xilinx, Boon Chye Ooi had a long and successful career at Intel Corporation and the held the position of Vice President of Intel’s Corporate Technology Group and Vice President of Intel’s Systems manufacturing group. In that role he led Intel’s Systems worldwide plant operations
The StepUp Initiative is a programme aimed at sparking the interests of lower secondary students in STEM-learning and inspiring them to pursue higher studies and future careers in related fields.
Under the StepUp Initiative, industry players adopt schools of their choice to fun STEM programmes to be conducted.