KUCHING: About 120 students from 15 secondary schools in Kuching, Kota Samarahan and Serian Districts attended the free Robotics and Hardware Programming Workshop held at Swinburne Sarawak Campus here from June 11-19.
The workshop was organised by the Sarawak Subsection of IEEE (USA) in collaboration with the School of Engineering of Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus. It aimed to advance STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education in Sarawak with the use of robotics, according to Dr Lau Bee Theng, the chair of Sarawak Subsection of IEEE (USA).
Dr Riady, the organising committee cum trainer for the robotics and hardware programming workshop, explained that the three-session workshop aimed to deliverhands-on learning experience in basic robot building and hardware programming.
Throughout the workshop, the participants learned about the working principles of simple robotics and mechatronics systems as well as the practical skills in prototyping electronic circuits and microcontroller programming in a fun and interactive way.
On top of providing the learning-by-doing experiences, the workshop also managed to cultivate the youths’ interests in STEM. The participants highly commended the workshop for widening their horizon in robotics technology and ways to programme the mini robots. They said they wished to learn more about the technology in future.
