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Participants during
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                                          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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