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Watch video below showing glimpses of Kids Invent! Singapore and Malaysia during 2011. This year 2012, look out for more and better workshops, camps and training sessions for kids, trainers, licensees, master partners, educators and parents in Malaysia, Singapore and …
First 3 days build weapons to win back castle.
4th and 5th day, end of castle siege – rebuild and celebrate, incorporating entrepreneurship.
Venue – Voice Works Learning Centre @ 167 Jalan Bukit Merah, #04-14, Tower 4, Singapore 150167, which is near the Bukit Merah Bus Interchange (Confirmed).
The Normal Pricing for the camp:
5-days $550
3-days $330
2-days $220
The Early Bird price (registration before 15th May 2012):
5-days $398
3-days $298
2-days $198
The article below is taken from YIM website
| KUALA TERENGGANU, APRIL 30TH , 2012 – The YIM Kids Invent! organised by Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia (YIM), with the collaboration of Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) covering 15 states, including Labuan FT, this year landed its foot in Kuala Terengganu on 29th April 2012 with a total turnout of more than 430 primary school children from 70 schools around Kuala Terengganu.
This effort is in line with YIM’s role as one of the implementers of the National Innovation Movement 2012 which was planned to internalise innovation as a way of life and to be practiced by all Malaysians.
Muhammad Aziph Dato’ Mustapha, Acting Chief Executive Officer of YIM, said that the YIM Kids Invent! workshops are part of the initiatives especially in YIM’s effort to reach the school children. This event was visited by Y.A.B. Dato’ Seri Haji Ahmad Bin Said, Chief Minister of Terengganu after he launched another program by YIM, the Jejak Inovasi Terengganu in State Public Library of Terengganu. “This is made possible by the continued close rapport established between YIM and the Ministry of Education, especially via the PPDs, and we will continue to work closely with them for 14 more similar workshops which will be executed nationwide until end of the year. “We are hoping to reach a minimum of 5,000 students this year via YIM Kids Invent! Programme,” he added. . YIM also announced a special YIM Kids Invent! Finale Workshop, which will be organised in Kuala Lumpur in November 2012 in conjunction with the World Innovation Forum, Kuala Lumpur (WIFKL), to conclude all the YIM Kids Invent! workshops that will be executed this year. “We have selected top three performing students of the YIM “Kids Invent!” Terengganu, and they are Muhammad Farith Izwan B. Muhammad Sobri from SK Pasir Pajang, Kho Jin Jun from SJKC Chung Hwa Wei Sin and Fatin Nur Sabrina Bt. Zulkifli from SK Padang Hiliran. As best performers they get to attend the Finale Workshop in Kuala Lumpur with their parents with all expenses borne by YIM.These students are selected based on a few criteria set by the organizer such as teamwork, leadership, innovative mind and initiatives portrayed during the program. YIM is an agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) and is responsible in promoting and inculcating creativity and innovation among Malaysians, especially targeting children and youth, women, rural folks, people with disabilities and non-government organisations. “YIM is looking forward to its new role in implementing and executing the initiatives under the banner of the National Innovation Movement 2012 – which will help improve the nation’s economy and subsequently enhance the quality of lives of all Malaysians,” concluded Muhammad Aziph.
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More than thirty of Club Rainbow beneficiaries had a wildly creative time attending a camp from Kids Invent!® Organised by American Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, LLC (AIIE) the camp provides a unique blend of education and invention activities that ignite children’s natural curiosity, challenging them to be creative, problem-solve and apply their ideas into creations.
7 Benefits for the Children
• Stimulate creative instincts through Invention
• Help participants understand and utilize scientific principles through experimentation
• Develop tactile & co-ordination skills by building mock-ups
• Help develop a problem-solving mindset to improve on designs.
• Improve language & presentation skills
• Demonstrate the value of teamwork
• Encourage spirit of Entrepreneurship
The children were divided into groups and were given basic materials such as cereal boxes, milk cartons, straws, clothes pegs etc. Each group was given challenges to build parachutes, rockets etc and were only allowed to use the given materials. The children exhibited amazing amount of creativity with their ideas designing each activity; at the same time looking at others and learning to improvise their strategies, concepts with their innovative critical thinking.
Not only the beneficiaries and their siblings but their care-givers as well had loads of fun! We look forward to other activities from Kids Invent! and AIIE that challenges our children’s creativity and innovative abilities and reinforces the wildly creative learning.
Kids Invent Singapore
The National Innovaton Movement 2012 was announced by the Prime Minister, Y.A.B. Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, in Budget 2012 to carry out several strategic initiatives to promote innovation which has been identified as the enabler to shift the economic value chain to a higher level.
