Science Fair for Young Children 2008 - 225 Tamil schools nationwide.

For the last 3 years, Tamil Foundation has conducted “Young Scientific Explorers’ (YSE) involving 360 students in 2004, 1120 students in 2005 and 2094 students in 2006. YSE was developed to introduce science to young people in a fun manner using everyday items. It was conducted by visiting the participating schools and exhibiting 8 simple experiments, followed by a visit to the National Science Centre.

This project was a collaborative effort between The Centre for Community Initiatives (CCI) and Tamil Foundation, Malaysian Indian Science Intellectuals Association, (MISI), Education, Welfare and Research Foundation (EWRF) and the Head Masters Council (Selangor). To take-off this pilot project, the Science Fair 2007 was held in Dewan Tunku Cancelor (DTC), University of Malaya and consisted of 49 teams from 44 schools across Wilayah and Selangor.

The Science Fair 2007 was a great success to us and hope that it can be further improved in “Science Fair for Young Children 2008”. In 2008, Science Fair will be conducted in 6 zones in the months of April-May and as a follow-up of that, a National level competition will be held in the month of June involving up to 1125 students at the state level and 250 students at the national level.

This project aims to improve on the concept, supporting structure and implementation tools of Science Fair 2007 and help coordinate and organize Science Fairs primarily in Tamil Schools nationwide and thereby creating a greater awareness about science and scientific methods. It also aims to help motivate the students with the drive for achievement in their quest for knowledge.

6 Zones

Total number of schools targeted to participate in Science Fair 2008 = 225 Tamil schools nationwide.

Science Fair provides an opportunity for students, individually or as members of a team to actually apply the theories and skills they have learned and acquired in their study of science. For students who have not studied science, the Science Fair project will be rather difficult. But if your respective classes and schools have made an effort to give students lots of experience solving scientific problems, the Science Fair provides a perfect platform for the kids to show what they’ve learned. It also provides a venue to show the students and the academic community on the whole, how important and useful SCIENCE is.

Science Fair 2008 is a very important tool to encourage our students to participate in more knowledge related activities and to make the learning process more fun oriented. For more information, please contact

Project Officer,
Science Fair for Young Children 2008
Tel: 03-2692 6533
Fax: 03-2692 6758

http://www.tamilfoundation.org