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Participants during
the workshop
THE THE Arduino
Following the brief opening ceremony, Dr proceeded to start programming and constructing
Workshop Pu introduced the circuit, cathode, and anode of the circuit on the breadboard with assistance from
Jointly reported by: Foo Zhing Yee Sr1ScA, Lim Sze Kee Sr1ScB, Goh Yu Xin Sr1ScD a LED light. Afterwards, participants examined the mentors.
the Arduino set before they started their first
In order to enhance the STEM education as well as to let students dedicate themselves to self-
motivated learning, Kuen Cheng High School Academic Department and University of Nottingham experiment. In the experiment, students were 27th June 2022. The assignment on this day
jointly organised an Arduino Workshop at our own Computer Lab, from June to August. The workshop able to see the physical output from the Arduino was to create a liquid-crystal display. As usual, the
included both face-to-face physical and online training. Physical workshops were held separately on microcontroller board as it blinks the on-board lecturer gave a briefing on the instructions and
the 13th of June, 20th of June and 27th of June, from 3:15 p.m. to 4:45p.m, students of Electronic LED. issues to take note of. The responder of the three-
Engineering and the lecturer from the University of Nottingham guided every participant patiently. team was being carried on since last week. Instead
On 20th June 2022, students were assigned of using a 7-Segment, LCD was introduced to
to two different computer labs. The lecturer, Dr. Pu show the corresponding team’s number after a
On 13th June 2022, the first day of the workshop, every participant gathered at Computer Lab A
on time. Madam Koo Lai Ping, Vice Principal of Kuen Cheng High School, welcomed all the mentors started off by guiding us throughout the process of button is pressed by the team. An LCD can be
and lecturers, thanking them for conducting such a meaningful workshop. Madam Koo expressed her differentiating the anode and cathode electrodes used to display numbers, symbols and characters.
gratitude on behalf of the School towards Ir. Ts. Dr Belle Ooi and Ir. Ts. Dr Daniel Pu with a fruit using a multimeter. It would make it easier for Hence, by using an LCD, users could get more
hamper. us to complete the circuit constructions on a meaningful messages from the 3-team responder.
breadboard. We used an online platform named
TinkerCAD to design programs. After completing In this experiment, the programming and
the assigned projects, the programs were uploaded hardware connection of LCD to the existing
to the Arduino UNO board. responder’s circuit were concerned. With the
experiences accumulated since the past lab
The main project of the day was to complete seminars, students were able to manipulate
The lecturers and the designing and programming of a Three-team breadboard construction techniques of the
Kuen Cheng teachers responder. The main purpose of this responder responder with the LCD confidently. Everything
was to be used in competitions, it determines progressed in success under the guidance of all
which team has managed to secure the chance helpful mentors. Students had a whale of a time
to give their answer. Two of the other buttons enjoying the workshop and learnt loads of new
will be automatically disabled after the first team knowledge that could be carried along their
pressed their corresponding button. The students journey of becoming triumphant people.
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