Sign up for national science challenge

THE annual National Science Challenge (NSC) is back with a series of exciting challenges that will test students on their knowledge and application of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Now in its 19th year and managed by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), the NSC 2018 is open for registration for all 16 year-old science stream students nationwide.

The ExxonMobil Subsidiaries in Malaysia have been supporting the NSC since 2012 as part of its long term investment in the development of Malaysia’s human capital.

The preliminary round kicks off on May 21.

Schools are allowed to register as many teams as they like. Each team must consist of three students and a mentor-teacher.

The preliminary round is an online quiz, where the best five teams including a wild card team comprising top three individual scorers in each state will progress to compete at the state level competition.

The best team from each state will move forward to the semi-finals, which is conducted as an eight-day residential science camp hosted by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia at its Skudai campus in Johor.

The top four teams at the end of the camp will advance to the Grand Final in Kuala Lumpur, where they will be tested in the form of an interactive science quiz comprising the Individual Category, the Video Category, the Open Category and the Project Presentation Category.

The champions will win the Prime Minister’s Challenge Trophy and a study trip to Stockholm, Sweden for an opportunity to attend and observe the prestigious international Nobel Prize Awards ceremony and Nobel Lectures.

Teams which are second, third and fourth and the top individual scorer during the preliminary round of the challenge will receive an invitation to the exclusive Sakura Science High School Programme in Tokyo, Japan.