IMU Malaysia Science Challenge 2017

Encourages High School Students to Kick start their Medical and Health Sciences Journey

Now in its third year of running, the Science Challenge is Malaysia’s International Medical University (IMU)’s effort to encourage students to demonstrate their science knowledge, understanding, and skills. While the Science Challenge is a competition, it also develops valuable skills such as teamwork, creativity, persistence, problem solving, and cooperation.

In partnership with Rainbow – Ryre, Sri Lanka, a subsidiary of Rainbow Institute of Communication and English, the competition invited students from leading private, public, and international schools to put their science knowledge and skills to the test. Apart from presenting invigorating challenges to the participants, the Science Challenge also provided participants with practical and interactive workshop making it a fun and educational event.Between the stages of the challenge, students had lots of fun as they enhanced their knowledge through practical workshops on DNA Testing and Blood Extractions.

The event that took place at The Hilton Residencies Hotel was graced by dignitaries of the International Medical University, Malaysia. The team from IMU, included Professor Chin Bee Yoke - Associate Dean, School of Health Sciences, Dr. Ranjit De Alwis – Associate Professor at IMU whose origins are in Sri Lanka and the International Marketing team of the University. Dr. Mahim Mendis and Mr. Steve Santhosh, represented Rainbow - Ryre, Sri Lanka.

Ananda College emerged as the champion, while Gateway College, Colombo and Gateway College, Dehiwala came first and second runner-ups respectively. The champions were awarded opportunities to study medicine at IMU, the challenge trophy, US$ 500, medals and branded Adidas bags while the first and second runner-ups were awarded trophies, medals, and cash awards of USD300 and USD200 respectively.

Being Malaysia’s first and most established private medical and health sciences university with over 25 years of dedicated focus in healthcare education with a Tier-5 rating in the SETARA ratings of Malaysian Universities and University-Colleges awarded by Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA), IMU have been committing to this effort over the years and have been enriching students learning by translating the university core values. Specialist with focus on medicine & health sciences. IMU is a university wholly specialising in medicine, health sciences and complementary medicine programmes which means that all resources are devoted to excellence in this area of education. Comprising of five schools in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, the IMU has been offering everyone interested in pre-university, undergraduate, postgraduate and continuous learning programmes in the field of healthcare and science.

Integrating education with practice. Pioneering the close integration of Research and Healthcare practice together with Education, this science challenge is another effort to help students get early exposure to research projects by interacting with the established IMU Institute for Research, Development & Innovation (IRDI). Over the years IMU has also established partnerships with leading hospitals in the country to allow its staff and students to get continuous and extensive real-life clinical experience. It also operates its own private clinics, IMU Healthcare, in areas such as Dentistry, Chiropractic and Chinese Medicine to ensure close integration of real practice with education.

For the recent science challenge, it is brought together with a collaborative effort between IMU, Rainbow Institute and Ryre to further enhance and enrich students’ experience utilizing their network and resources. “The Rainbow Institute is delighted to launch our partnership with Ryre Synergy through this wonderful Science Quiz. Ryre is a leading educational service provider in Malaysia. They have strong credentials in student placement to the best universities in Malaysia. They work in collaboration with the Government of Malaysia” said Dr. Mahim Mendis.

Meanwhile, we would like to apologise for the inaccurate information on scholarships awarded to the winners, as published in our previous write up dated 19th of March, 2017. The error is regretted. For further information on exciting educational opportunities in Malaysia, call - 0114848725, email - ryre@rainbow.lk or visit www.facebook. com/rexposrilanka.