Date: 27th-28th May 2023
Venue:Â Computer Lab 1, UTS
Young Innovators Challenge (YIC) is an annual program that consists of YIC TTT and YIC competition, aims at catalysing the maker movement in secondary schools. In this program, students are supported by teachers, mentors, and the organiser, to solve real-life problems using open-source embedded system and software.
Before the YIC competition, the secondary school teachers and university students were trained during YIC Train-The-Trainer (TTT) to equip them with the mentoring and technical skills in order to facilitate the students. This collaboration of UTS-Chumbaka was coordinated by Ms. Eileen Ong from UTS with Dr. Xavier Chee from Chumbaka. We had 13 secondary school teachers and 12 UTS and 3 MPI students joined this face-to-face YIC TTT. The learning journey in YIC programme develops their life skills and STEM skills.
During the 2-day YIC TTT, the online learning materials in the learning management account were given to enable the teachers and mentors to learn about mobile apps, Arduino, design thinking, project planning and building. This year the theme for YIC TTT was to build a silly machine project. A numerous creative and fun prototypes were created and presented. For example, a silly toilet, good bye machine, cat teaser, LEDs signal machine, monitoring machine, music piano room and so on. The trainees evaluated all the projects and voted for the four silliest projects. A special thanks to Dr. Tiong Meng Chung, who volunteered his time to be the technical advisor to offer help throughout the YIC TTT.
Here are some photos of taken during the event.
