KUCHING: Some 60 Form 4 and Form 5 students experienced what it is like to be a researcher recently.
Thanks to Swinburne University, which organised the workshop, the students were made cancer researchers of an anti-cancer drug.
In the centre of the workshop held at St Joseph’s Private School was Swinburne’s Biotechnology Club whose members guided the students.
The club comes under the supervision of the university’s Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Science lecturer Ting Lik Fong.
Under her watchful eyes, the participants learned what Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education really means.
Swinburne is among the world’s top 200 institutions for science in the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Broad Subject Fields.
The university’s School of Chemical Engineering and Science offers a three-year science course majoring in biotechnology.
The workshop helped introduce to the participants the subject of biotechnology.
