The Competition Day of the AEROFAIR 2016 Program, with the theme “Promoting Aerospace Science and Activities in Secondary Schools”, has been successfully completed on Saturday, 24/9/2016, marking the completion of this program for this year.
All of the participants from 19 secondary schools in Penang who applied into this program attended the event. The total number of participants were 35 teachers and 186 students. The event was organized by 26 staffs and 49 student volunteers from the School of Aerospace Engineering, USM. The Competition Day event was officiated by Tn. Hj. Zulkafli Kamaruddin, as the Ketua Unit Kokurikulum, Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri.
Highlights of the AEROFAIR 2016 program can be read in the following posts (more information will be updated soon):
- AEROFAIR 2016 Competition Day: results and photos
- AEROFAIR 2016 Briefing Day: information and photos
- Videos by secondary schools for the Multimedia Competition
- An article on the AEROFAIR project
Through this AEROFAIR 2016 program, the participants were able to bring the aerospace science and activities to their own schools. This allowed them to expand the impact of this program to other students as well, who were not involved directly with the AEROFAIR program.
Such a case was evident especially for SMK Simpang Empat, seen through their submitted video for the Multimedia Competition, where the participating teachers and students had organized a series of seminars and workshops to teach other students from their school as well as those from the neighboring schools about their aerospace activities. The submitted videos from other schools have similarly shown thorough learning process experienced by their students.
The next challenges of our AEROFAIR outreach program are on how to improve the flying vehicles used as platforms of outreach, to scale-up the impact to more students and schools, and to replicate the exemplary actions of the schools above to other schools, in terms of their ability to engage other students through a culture of sharing and continuous learning at the school level.
Shown above is the group photo of the participants, the organizers, and the officers from supporting institutions, taken after the officiating ceremony in the morning. The group photo of the organizing committee members is shown below, taken after the end of the event in the afternoon.
For more photos of the event during the AEROFAIR 2016 Competition Day, please visit this photo album.
