Space Weather Innovation Competition for School Students in Malaysia

Mardina Abdullah, Siti Aminah Bahari, Badariah Bais, Alina Marie Hasbi, RosadahAbd Majid, MohdHezri Mokhtar and Nor Syaidah
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Mardina Abdullah: Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Siti Aminah Bahari: Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Badariah Bais: Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Alina Marie Hasbi: Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
RosadahAbd Majid: Department of Education and Community Wellbeing, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
MohdHezri Mokhtar: Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Nor Syaidah: Department of Education and Community Wellbeing, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 1, issue 2, 70-74

Abstract: In line with the government’s vision to create space weather awareness among the public, the space weather innovation competition was organized in 2013 by Space Science Center, Institute of Climate Change, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) together with National Space Agency (ANGKASA) and supported by the Ministry of Education. This paper presents the flow of the competition. The competition was designed for secondary school students age between 16-17 years of age all over Malaysia, and conducted online through a website. The participants were selected based on the results of the test that was given. The selected participants were then provided with a SID teaching kit inclusive of software, electronic components and a PCB. This competition conducted in group consists of four students. Each group are required to design and build a very low frequency (VLF) antenna, assemble the electronics components on the PCB to build the preamplifier and analyze the data that they received. They were also required to prepare, upload their progress and final technical reports to be evaluated by a panel of judges. The final evaluation was done by visits to the top five schools where the students presented their reports. This competition is beneficial to increase awareness among school students in space weather knowledge. The essence of this is to increase student in science subject in the hope to increase the number of students to select science stream subject at higher education.

Keywords: Space Weather; Competition; Innovation; Technical Reports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.20003-2

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