Science Fair for Young Children 2008
Written by Pushparaaja Munusamy on May 3, 2008 – 5:22 am
For the last 3 years, Tamil Foundation has conducted “Young Scientific Explorers’ (YSE) involving 360 students in 2004, 1120 students in 2005 and 2094 students in 2006. YSE was developed to introduce science to young people in a fun manner using everyday items. It was conducted by visiting the participating schools and exhibiting 8 simple experiments, followed by a visit to the National Science Centre.
This project was a collaborative effort between The Centre for Community Initiatives (CCI) and Tamil Foundation, Malaysian Indian Science Intellectuals Association, (MISI), Education, Welfare and Research Foundation (EWRF) and the Head Masters Council (Selangor). To take-off this pilot project, the Science Fair 2007 was held in Dewan Tunku Cancelor (DTC), University of Malaya and consisted of 49 teams from 44 schools across Wilayah and Selangor.
The Science Fair 2007 was a great success to us and hope that it can be further improved in “Science Fair for Young Children 2008”. In 2008, Science Fair will be conducted in 6 zones in the months of April-May and as a follow-up of that, a National level competition will be held in the month of June involving up to 1125 students at the state level and 250 students at the national level.
This project aims to improve on the concept, supporting structure and implementation tools of Science Fair 2007 and help coordinate and organize Science Fairs primarily in Tamil Schools nationwide and thereby creating a greater awareness about science and scientific methods. It also aims to help motivate the students with the drive for achievement in their quest for knowledge.
6 Zones
Total number of schools targeted to participate in Science Fair 2008 = 225 Tamil schools nationwide.
Science Fair provides an opportunity for students, individually or as members of a team to actually apply the theories and skills they have learned and acquired in their study of science. For students who have not studied science, the Science Fair project will be rather difficult. But if your respective classes and schools have made an effort to give students lots of experience solving scientific problems, the Science Fair provides a perfect platform for the kids to show what they’ve learned. It also provides a venue to show the students and the academic community on the whole, how important and useful SCIENCE is.
Science Fair 2008 is a very important tool to encourage our students to participate in more knowledge related activities and to make the learning process more fun oriented. For more information, please contact
Project Officer,
Science Fair for Young Children 2008
Tel: 03-2692 6533
Fax: 03-2692 6758
http://www.tamilfoundation.org
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May 6th, 2008 at 3:14 am
aah..no1 comments here
thkx raaja.
yesterday the northern region leg was done in AIMST
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May 13th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
The Science fair at UTM Skudai was the most fabulous science fair ever organized by the Indians for the Indians!
it was truly an inspiring event especially to see so many young children participitating. it was mind boggling to see all these young scientists in action, without fear or feeling inferior. every kid participant was ever ready to explain their experiment, and show off their skills.
many participant showed their language skills, being analytical and even critical.
the winning team did exceptionally well! they were simply superb!
i would like to wish all of them the greatest success in whatever they do.
i hope that the organisers will come up with more educational programmes such as this one.
our support is always with you.
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May 19th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
It was an inspiring science fair especially for young children .The children that took part was from Tamil School and this kind of fair gives them the exposure and the courage to stand in public to expalin all about their experiments.That’s a great achievement to any Tamil school students.The DNA group in Johor was awesome.I really could see some talents and the Tamil Foundation has done good this time around by bring the science fair to the Johor region.The Putera was also good and finally after a long time we could see the MIC wing being active and in inaction.Keep up the good work!
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August 14th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Apsal semua tamil?????????
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