Introducing and Increasing Interest Towards STEM Through Service Learning; Informal Learning and Soft-Skills Challenge

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200921.029How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Service Learning, STEM, Teamwork

Abstract

STEM @KERAKED, a service-learning program, aimed to introduce and develop their interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) at a very young age through informal science learning. Kids at the age of seven to twelve that live in Ayer Baloi, Pontian, Johor participated were divided into small groups and provided with two facilitators, university students, which led them throughout the explorer-like program. This explores had four elements of STEM separated into checkpoints, which had demonstrations and games, and finally related to daily lives and natural phenomena. There were pre- and post- questionnaire for the participants, comparing and investigating their understanding and perception towards STEM. Based on the analysis of the questionnaire, there are improvements in the knowledge of STEM for most of the participants. Besides, the other improved element that can be seen is their teamwork and also their interest in working in a team for this particular type of activity. Not only this program benefits the participants, but this program also gave a lot of beneficial experience to the facilitators and crews, in term of having a platform to apply their STEM knowledge and challenging their soft-skills. This paper shows the benefit of informal science learning to both participants and facilitators.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nor Ain Husein
AU  - Kiflee Jimpi
AU  - Siti Raudhah Ramya
AU  - Sakeshraj Narajah
AU  - Muhammad Naim Zulkifli
AU  - Mohamad Faiz Bin Aziz
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/22
TI  - Introducing and Increasing Interest Towards STEM Through Service Learning; Informal Learning and Soft-Skills Challenge
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Student and Disable Student Development 2019 (ICoSD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 176
EP  - 183
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200921.029
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200921.029
ID  - Husein2020
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