tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2019-11-02T08:35:19+08:00 Peatix Petrosains Admin tag:peatix.com,2016:event-194975 2016-09-15T11:30:00MYT 2016-09-15T11:30:00MYT

This is an introductory workshop to encourage children into STEAM. The participants will imagine, sketch and build the city using cardboards and learn about simple paper circuits to illuminate the city with LED lights. Learning outcome is to illustrate simple circuits and urban design through a fun hands-on experience that incorporates both low-tech building and simple circuits.Audience: Primary students (recommended age is 10 - 12 years old)You can book your seats now at no cost. However, you're advised to purchase your daily Galleria admission (RM5) ticket on day of event. Entry is only allowed from the date/time on tickets purchased. Speaker:Fiza AzmiFiza Azmi is a co-founder of Girls for Good, a creative confidence programme for school girls that employs design thinking and project-based learning approaches to build confidence and innovation skills amongst girls. Prior to joining Tandemic’s training team, Fiza was a lecturer at a private university. Fiza trains on design thinking and visual thinking with Tandemic’s Design Thinking Practice. She is also the author of the Visual Thinking Toolkit, a toolkit that helps people expand their creative boundaries and communication skills using simple approaches to illustrating ideas. She obtained her master’s degree (English Language Studies) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; and Bachelor of Education (Teaching English as a Second Language) from Universiti Putra Malaysia. About Girls for Good:Established in 2015, Girls For Good is an organisation that designs educational programmes to build kids’ creative confidence. It started with a series of programmes to empower young girls from 10 to 17 years old namely Girls For Good Workshop, a 1-day program to build girls creative confidence using design thinking strategies, Create & Code, an 8-week program to expose girls to code as a creative tool to change the world and its latest initiative which is known as Girls Gonna Make - a series of educational kits to get young girls into STEAM. About PETROSAINS Science Festival:The Petrosains Science Festival is Petrosains’ initiative to provide a unified platform for communities in the fields of science and technology, such as the industry players and science academia, to come together for the common purpose of engaging and inspiring the Malaysian public, especially the younger generation, to the wonders of science and technology. The festival is similar to other such events held in major cities such as Edinburgh, Manchester, New York and Singapore, and is another step taken by Petrosains to play our role as a leading science centre and important supporting component to the country’s educational landscape. Through this Festival, we hope to further contribute to the popularizing of science to the public that combines the engaging and interactive Petrosains approach with the day-to-day relevance that industry and academia partners will bring.