ABOUT

MySTEM EXPLORATION journey started in 1989 when I first started my temporary teaching career in a secondary school in a small town in Malaysia. I was assigned to teach science in remove classes. Remove classes are for students from Chinese and Tamil medium primary schools before they join the secondary mainstream students in form one.

Everyday I discover new challenges in making the students understand the lesson of the day. After a month of teaching, I went up to my father and said I want to quit teaching since I can’t make my students understand their lessons. My father said, use nature’s wealth in making your students understand science.

The next day, I brought some salt, sugar, oil, water and bottles. We did experiments instead of reading and writing. The 30 minutes was too quick and we could not complete the lesson. The next day was an amazing morning for me when the children in the class came with completed work and they were exited to start the class for the day. Since then everyday was a new experience and full of fun and teaching became my passion.

2016 was a turning point for MySTEM EXPLORATION journey through the discovery of Program Pemerkasaan Kompetensi Akademik Siswa (PKAS) with the support of an Industrial Psychology graduated from UKM. My journey became our journey in which we discovered more members of similar interest.

2017 – 2018 the team had opportunity to participate in number of STEM Education activities organized and funded by UKM-JPNS collaboration which provided us good opportunity to test and improve our ideas and innovation in producing a shelf ready STEM learning kit in Lighting Design which provide the fundamentals of home lighting system design.

2019 Al Ameen Serve Holdings Sdn. Bhd. gave PKAS a booster with their interest in being our product distributor and Sarman Printing Sdn. Bhd. made our dream a reality by producing the puzzle in the form it was designed.

1989 to 2019, its took 30 years for a dream to come through. Hope the 30 years dream came through product will serve its purpose in building the next generation Malaysian STEM warriors.

iSTEM Academy Advisor

Kalaivani Chellappan