Welcome to the 1st issue of the Aerofair Bulletin. The Aerofair 2014 Program is an outreach program organized by the School of Aerospace Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. The program was composed of the main Competition Event on 27 September and the Indoor Flight Workshop on 23 August 2014. More than 300 people, organizers and participants included, were involved in this program.
In this issue, we are pleased to share the outcomes of this program as a means to communicate its benefit into the wider educational community in Malaysia and to promote continuous and sustainable efforts in the future for similar programs.
Contributions in this issue have been written either in Bahasa Malaysia or English. The main aim of this duality in language is to promote the use of English, alongside the national language, as the main medium of learning science and technology in the international context. The importance of this international language is reflected in the main activities conducted within this program, where secondary school students had to rely on various learning resources from the internet which are dominantly written in English.
We invite you to browse through the articles in this issue, which range from forewords from the organizers and the supporting body, important information about this program, outcomes from the aircraft modeling and flying activities during the workshop and the competitions, as well as perspectives on science education in the form of short essays written by teachers and students from secondary schools in Pulau Pinang.
We would like to thank our Bulletin Editor En. Haniff Junos for his work on producing this bulletin. For further details about the program, please visit this page. You can also download a PDF copy of the Aerofair 2014 Bulletin from this link.