Starting ’em young as future scientists
KUCHING: Building an early interest in Science and Technology can help children to develop an idea of their career path.
This is why STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is deemed vital to the future children and country.
Therefore, talks, seminars, and even carnival events promote and motivate young children to build an interest in the STEM field, said Technology Park Malaysia (TPM) corporate communication and stakeholder management senior manager Aniz Adura Abdul Majid yesterday.
“As an agency to encourage development of science, technology and innovations, we want to promote these to students especially from the younger ones in primary schools.
“It is important to build their interest in Science and Technology from young.
“Talks and seminars can inspire them to become a scientist, an engineer, an astronaut and other professional careers in future,” she said at the ‘Creativity and Science4U 2016’ carnival held at the civic centre yesterday.
She was delivering a talk on ‘A career in Science and Technology’ to introduce visitors, especially students to a stimulating career in STEM.
She said this was in line with the government’s effort to promote the fields of science, technology and innovation which are inevitable for Malaysia to achieve not only a developed status, but also to build a knowledge-based economy to move the value chain towards a sustainable high income nation.
She said “Science is our natural world and STEM is our children’s future” – the age of technology in which they live, hence their best career options.
She said Malaysia requires more scientist and technologist to ride on the highest of technology advancement era.
Meanwhile, according to a press statement by TPM’s president and chief executive officer, Dato’ Ir Mohd Azman Shahidin, he said there is a compelling need for the nation to adopt the latest technologies and innovations to build and sustain overall national growth towards attaining developed status by 2020.
It is also in line with the need for Malaysia to harness skills and knowledge in STEM across all sectors.
By 2020, he said the country wants to achieve a ratio of 70 scientists per 10,000 population.
TPM, an agency of Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Mosti), is Malaysia’s pioneer and leading technology park, spanning 688 acres of land with an integrated infrastructure, facilities and support services
As an agency to encourage development of science, technology and innovations, we want to promote these to students especially from the younger ones in primary schools. — Aniz Adura Abdul Majid, Technology Park Malaysia (TPM) corporate communication and stakeholder management senior manager
to assist technopreneurs and entrepreneurs who are keen to commercialise their ideas in the four industry clusters, namely, ICT, engineering, biotechnology and green technology.