Dear students and teachers participating in AEROFAIR 2016, Program AgendaThe Competition Day for the AEROFAIR 2016 is coming close, in less than a month. We have prepared a more detailed agenda of that program, as shown below (the agenda has been updated on 23/9/2016): As shown in the agenda, we will have a special session […]
Our work on the AEROFAIR outreach project has recently been published and presented at the Regional Conference on Engineering Education (RCEE 2016) on 9 August 2016 in Kuala Lumpur. The article is “Outreaching and Engaging Students with STEM through AEROFAIR“. The PDF file of the article can be downloaded from the given link. The article […]
Dear students and teachers participating in AEROFAIR 2016, The Briefing Day Event for AEROFAIR 2016 has been successfully conducted on last Thursday, 23 June 2016. This event was participated by 32 teachers and 74 students from 19 schools. (Shared above is the group photo taken for the event.) We the organizers would like to express […]
For further information about this program, please contact the program’s secretariat office below. Pn. Fakriah Jamaluddin (Tel: 04-5995903; email: fakriah@usm.my) Pn. Che’ Fauziah Hanim Mohd Saad (Tel: 04-5995951; email: aehanim@usm.my) Participating schools can also submit their YouTube video links for the Video Competition (at least two weeks before the Competition Day of AEROFAIR 2016) to […]
Update on 14/6/2016:All the 19 participating schools have agreed to attend the morning session on Thursday, 23 June 2016 (10 am – 12 pm). Therefore, the afternoon session is cancelled. See further details below. ——————————————————— To all the schools participating in AEROFAIR 2016: Due to requests from a number of teachers from the participating schools, […]
Picture: SMK Permatang Tok Jaya (Team A), the 2015 champion of the indoor flight competition, with their championship trophy, medals, and a remote-controlled hexacopter pathfinder 2, complete with an FPV camera, priced at about RM650. We have received many applications from secondary schools in Pulau Pinang to participate in AEROFAIR 2016. The application procedure is […]
Update 5/10/2016: Please read this post on the completion and outcomes of AEROFAIR 2016. The School of Aerospace Engineering USM is once again organizing another series of our AEROFAIR outreach program this year. We have previously organized two AEROFAIR programs in 2014 and 2015. Our program is financially supported by the Penang Education Council of […]
In addition to the two main flying competitions (indoor flight and water rocket), we will also organize two additional competitions to promote the learning of aerospace science and activities at schools. These competitions are: Presentations by schools’ contingents (on the Competition Day) Videos made by students (about aerospace activities at their schools) SCHOOL PRESENTATIONSOn the […]
In the previous AEROFAIR 2014 and 2015 programs conducted at the USM Engineering Campus, participants learned about indoor flight in short half-day workshops before competing in flying tournaments. The workshops did train the participants to build the planes on their own, but were insufficient to allow them time to experiment with the planes’ design parameters […]
Update on 27/6/2016: Please visit these links to go to the USM Space Outreach website to read more about the description of a water rocket, the rules for the Water Rocket Competition, and to watch the instructional video on how to build your rocket launcher with the materials provided to your team on the Briefing […]