Pusat GENIUS@Pintar Negara, UKM

 Mengilham Harapan, Mencipta Masa Depan

Junior School Enrichment Programme 2023

INTRODUCTION

Pusat PERMATA@Pintar Negara, UKM (PPpN UKM) also known as Malaysia National Gifted Centre, is located within the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) campus in Bangi, Selangor. Every year, this centre organises the Junior School Enrichment Programme (JSEP) aiming to help young kids develop their potential and become critical thinkers who are creative in innovative activities. This programme also provides holistic learning experiences where they can explore academic activities beyond the school curriculum. It offers opportunities for participants to build networks with one another and participate in learning activities that challenge their cognitive capabilities. Participants will be assisted with psychological support throughout the 3-days programme. They will also get to experience fun learning STEM-based enrichment activities.

Ten (10) STEM enrichment courses are offered to participants aged 7 to 11 years old. They are allowed to choose one (1) course according to their age group and they will be guided by instructors and teaching assistants throughout the 3-days camp. Participants will also be assigned teaching assistants who will help them adjust to the camp routines. Importantly, the camp has a low instructor-to-student ratio (1:5). This enables instructors and teaching assistants to give more attention to each participant. The academic activities involve lectures, small group discussions, lab work, presentations, visits to labs and research institutes as well as talks by experts. Participants will stay at the PPpN UKM campus from 8.00 am until 5.00 pm to take part in all activities.

Special meals can be prepared (e.g., vegetarian food) for students upon request. For security reasons, students are not encouraged to bring their laptops. However, they are allowed to bring their mobile phone but with limited usage.

ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS

We welcome students aged 7 to 11 years old to our 3-day hands-on programme at Pusat PERMATA@Pintar Negara, UKM.

FEE

Each participant will be charged RM450.00 per participation. Full payment is required before admission. Payment can be made via telegraphic transfer to the UKM payment office.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE

The charged amount includes programme fees, meal plans as well as learning and teaching materials. Students get to experience a 3-day specially designed programme packed with super fun activities with friends, instructors, and teaching assistants!

Our Courses

Astrokids

This course was designed to provide students with the opportunities to discover and understand astronomy and astrophysics through both theoretical and practical/observational approaches. Throughout the course, the student will be exposed to the fundamental knowledge of celestial objects and how astronomers or astrophysicists observed and obtained the data. Students can also experience how astronomers and astrophysicists work through student projects which require them to utilize the skills they have learned. At the end of the course, students not only learn in- depth about stars but they can also experience how scientists or astrophysicists work firsthand.

Be
a Scientist

This course provides an early exposure and fundamental knowledge about science. The 3-days module course is well planned, constructed and created to boost students’ interest in science. Students will be introduced about the key attributes of scientist and scientific methods during the first day of class, so that they will be able to follow the learning journey by understanding about one of the nature of the science. They will then be introduced about the human respiratory system. Students also will be exposed to the science of air resistance focusing on parachute. Finally, this course provide an opportunity to the students to understand the nature of work of a scientist. Throughout this 3-days learning journey, students will be able to experience new learning processes and pedagogy, such as pre- and post-test, think-pair-share, group discussion, individual and group presentation, daily hands-on activities, laboratory works, report writing and presentation.

Crime Scene Investigation

We have seen forensic scientists in TV shows, but how do they really work? What is the science behind their work? This CSI course provides an early exposure and fundamental knowledge about forensic science, especially in crime scene investigation. Students will learn how forensic experts use chemistry, biology, and physics to discover the hidden clues left behind at crime scenes and solve difficult cases by experiencing as the real forensic science investigator during the mock crime scene investigation. The 3-day module will provide students with hands-on experiences on fingerprints analysis, footwear analysis, hair analysis, handwriting and questioned document analysis, bloodstain and blood pattern analysis, DNA extraction, and so on. Throughout this learning journey, students will be able to experience new learning processes and pedagogy, such as daily hands-on activities, think-pair-share, group discussion, individual and group presentation, movie review, laboratory works, pre- and post-test, and report writing.

Genetic Engineering

This course provides an early exposure and fundamental knowledge about genetic engineering. This interactive and hands-on course are developed to introduce and disseminate knowledge on genetic engineering and biotechnology using interactive and hands-on teaching modules. The main aim of this course is to raise the awareness and interests of school students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields through the implementation an inquiry-based teaching platform for addressing the worrying trend of declining interests in STEM. This course will implement MySchoolGEM (Genetic Engineering Module) comprising of three modules DNA, Microbes and GMO modules that integrate project- and ICT-based teaching concepts for stimulating students’ interest and understanding in the basics of genetic engineering and biotechnology. Throughout this 3-day learning journey, students will be involved in conceptual teaching and learning, ICT-interactive simulations, daily hands-on activities and fun quizzes.

Introduction to DNA Barcoding

This course was designed to provide students to exposed to DNA Barcoding tool, to identify the species of insects. Students were allowed to catch their insect of interest from the school compound as a sample of their research. Students got chance to extract the insect’s DNA, multiply the DNA through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique and detection of their DNA through gel electrophoresis.

Introduction to Robotics

This course is designed to provide participants with vital information in the field of robotics as well as to improve their competitiveness in related sectors.This training covers both theoretical and practical topics. Participants will be exposed to the many types of robots, robot parts, robotics laws and morals, robotics professions, and challenges and solutions to upcoming concerns in the field of robotics as part of the hypothesis. The practical section is meant to provide participants with basic knowledge on how to construct and programed robots in order to pique their curiosity. Participants will be exposed to the fundamentals of electronics, electronic components, basic circuit construction, and electronic circuit programming. Participants will also construct and programed a rudimentary robot. To fortify the participants' understanding, participants are expected to perform unique errands that are not set in stone to test and examine the robots and programming that have been assembled.

Junior
Automotive Club (JAC)

Automotive is one of the largest industries in the world. In order to achieve optimum efficiency, automotive design and manufacturing play an important role. Automotive sector including design, powertrain, high speed and performance. In order to nurturing young engineer talent, STEM competition base on Formula 1 competition have been introduced worldwide. In this course, an automotive design and engineering base on F1 in Schools competition in order to encourages participants to explore all areas of the curriculum whilst designing, making testing and racing a miniature car powered by compressed air. Participants then use their understanding of the science of speed to design an efficient bodyshell. Series of testing and modifying of designs is needed to finally produce best miniature car that will be test base on fastest speed and engineering knowledge.

Mathematics is Fun

This course has been constructed to create hands-on activities and a fun learning environment for the teaching of basic mathematics to students. This course provides an early exposure and fundamental knowledge about the basic probability concepts, numbers and sequences and skills necessary for students to understand the Basic Laws of Probability, Pi, Fibonacci numbers and golden ratio in order to solve problems of mathematics. The main objectives of this course are understanding mathematics concept through playing games and boost students’ interest in mathematics. Throughout this learning journey, students will able to experience new learning processes and pedagogy, such as pre- and post-test, daily hands-on activities, think-pair- share, group discussion, playing games, experiments, individual and group presentation. Students will be assessed by quizzes, games, worksheets and presentations. Students will be taught using games, interactive teaching and learning and problem-based learning (PBL). By the end of the course, students will be able to see the relevance of mathematics in real-life contexts.

Up
& Atom

This course provides an early exposure and fundamental knowledge about atomic science. Students will explore the fundamentals of quantum which consists of atom, molecules, and matter. For each topic, students will be involved in hands-on activity to relate the basic concept of atom and matter. Then, students will be introduced to waves which involves light wave and sound wave. Students will be also exploring the concept of energy focusing on heat, electricity, and electromagnetism. They will be exposed with the concept of transfer of energy such as conduction, convection, and radiation. In electricity, students will have an opportunity to create a simple electric circuit using a biobattery. Lastly, students will experience generating electricity through the concept of magnetism using a homopolar motor and the battery train.

Young
Doctors

This course provides an early exposure and fundamental knowledge about human biology and medical terms. These 3-days learning journey cover few interesting human systems like system of digestive, blood circulatory, and musculoskeletal and with addition of human diseases related to the systems learned. In the beginning of the module, students will be introduced to the concept of cell structure and cell organisation, along with the skills of microscope handling. Eventually, they will dive in deeper to the beauty of human organs like stomach, intestines, heart, skeleton, muscles and many more. Other than that, activities and questions invented for the students are challenging and definitely fun for them.

Come and join us.

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