Faculty of Education wins big in STEM Early Childhood Online Challenge

Our Proud Winners in the STEM Early Childhood Online Challenge

Everybody loves a winner. That includes us here at SEGi College Subang Jaya. And we’ve not got just one winner, we have TWO! Not just two winners, but TWO GROUPS of winners! In the STEM Early Childhood Online Challenge held from 30 November 2020 to 5 January 2021, they did themselves, their families, and us all at SEGi proud, when they were announced as winners 14 January 2021.

The competition was organised by the Virtual Convention MySTEM Ambassador (MySTEM Ambassador is a collaborative programme among three Malaysian public universities: University Malaya, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). This initiative aimed to raise STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) awareness in Early Childhood among educators, caregivers, and STEM careers in the future, in line with the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013 to 2025 which identifies and emphasises STEM education as the way forward towards a developed nation. There was a total of 180 participants.

This award is particularly prestigious and we are particularly proud of our winners because it was a nationwide competition and the very first STEM competition in Early Childhood in Malaysia.  The contestants came from both public and private higher institutions and schools.

Our students have proven the strength and comprehensiveness of our Early Childhood programmes (both our Diploma in Early childhood Education and Bachelor of Arts in the Early Years) in applying their knowledge and skills in such innovative and creative manners as they did in this competition.

Category 1: Instructional Video on a STEM Experiment for the Little Scientists

Best Award and Gold Winners

1. Michelle Tan Yuen Joo (BAEYE Year 3 students)
2. Natalie Ann Lazaroo (BAEYE Year 3 students)
3. Michelle Huan Soon Ching (EC Lecturer, Faculty of Education, SCSJ)

Project: Hydraulic Crane    https://youtu.be/x3sddqlRZsk

 

 

Gold Winners

1. Ganesh Kamalanathan (DECE-2 Year 1)
2. Nicole Choong Pui Si (DECE-2 Year 1)
3. Kogilambal a/p Venugopal (DECE-2 Year 1)

Mini Hydro Power     https://youtu.be/XAk8N59qxEA

Category 2: The COVID-19 STEM Invention (to invent tools to cope with the COVID-19)

Silver Winners

1. Ganesh Kamalanathan (DECE-2 Year 1)
2. Nicole Choong Pui Si (DECE-2 Year 1)
3. Kogilambal a/p Venugopal (DECE-2 Year 1)

Invention: Social Distancing Flash Twig https://youtu.be/a45LY5AmUtA

Bronze Winners

1. Michelle Tan Yuen Joo (BAEYE Year 3 students)
2. Natalie Ann Lazaroo (BAEYE Year 3 students)
3. Michelle Huan Soon Ching (EC Lecturer, Faculty of Education, SCSJ)

Invention: 2-in-1 face mask and sanitiser container:    https://youtu.be/jnGywUq_krE

Category 3: STEM Awareness Poster (to raise STEM awareness in Early Childhood)

 

Gold Winners

1. Ganesh Kamalanathan (DECE-2 Year 1)
2. Nicole Choong Pui Si (DECE-2 Year 1)
3. Kogilambal a/p Venugopal (DECE-2 Year 1)

Silver Winners

1. Michelle Tan Yuen Joo (BAEYE Year 3 students)
2. Natalie Ann Lazaroo (BAEYE Year 3 students)
3. Michelle Huan Soon Ching (EC Lecturer, Faculty of Education, SCSJ)

 

Overall Award:
WINNERS FOR PRESTIGIOUS STEM INNOVATION AWARD

1. Ganesh Kamalanathan (DECE-2 Year 1)
2. Nicole Choong Pui Si (DECE-2 Year 1)
3. Kogilambal a/p Venugopal (DECE-2 Year 1)

SEGi College Subang Jaya is very proud and overjoyed that both groups of students who participated in the challenge won awards in all three categories!  What an achievement!

One of the groups was awarded the Winners For Prestigious STEM Innovation Award, bringing home a cash prize of RM700! Our winners are clearly perfect examples of the kind of Early Childhood educators many discerning parents seek and need for their precious young children.

At SEGi College Subang Jaya we consistently produce quality education, and through this competition we have proven that we also produce capable and passionate early childhood teachers who have demonstrated the ability to think critically, to solve real-life problems, and to create and invent solutions using their STEM skills. Our programmes are of the highest quality, meeting industrial needs, and definitely up to, if not surpassing, programme standards set by the Ministry of Education.

As one of the pioneers in early childhood education, we are now one of the leaders in Early Childhood STEM Education. Our academic staff tirelessly strive to maximise each student’s wonderful potential. No matter who you are and where you’ve been, at SEGi, we can assure you that we know where you’re going, and that will help you on your journey to success.

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