Members of the Graduate Academic Competence Empowerment Programme (Program Pemerkasaan Kompetensi Akademik Siswazah) at Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment (FEBE) in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), also known as PKAS, took the matter into their own hands and decided to immerse students at three secondary schools in Sepang, Selangor, in the world of STEM. The schools — SMK Sungai Rawang, SMK Pantai Sepang Putra and SMK Sungai Pelek — participated in a five-phase mentor-mentee project that kicked off in October 2017 and lasted until December last year. PKAS director Dr Kalaivani Chellappan said PKAS was an interdisciplinary research group focusing on Industry 4.0 — particularly the Internet of Things (IoT) automation in healthcare, education and industry safety, and productivity improvement. “Working closely with UKM’s Faculty of Education and the Selangor State Education Department (JPNS), we emphasised the importance of STEM and highlighted to teachers, parents and students how knowledge and skills in STEM will bring us into the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR),” she said.