The Milestone of Computational Thinking in Malaysia

I am delighted to blow my trumpet and share what my wife has achieved recently after coming a long way since being awarded the Master Trainer's Gold Certificate for Computational Thinking. She received this prestigious and honorable certificate in 2014 after being the only Asian participant who passed the examinations at the Robotics Academy of the Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, USA. That famous university ranks the top university for Computer Science in the world today. Being the only qualified participant then, she embarked onto her busiest career journey to fly weekly to several countries namely Manila, Jakarta, Taipei and others to conduct the training of Computational Thinking syllabus to hundreds of lecturers, teachers and relevant educators in overseas. She graced all the invitations and her training was very well received and benefited all the appreciative participants abroad. 

While the subject Computational Thinking has been the curriculum in the whole United States and many western countries for many decades, it still remains a fresh word and unexplored topic to our lagging country. Our Ministry of Education had long expressed interest to embrace and upgrade our education system since Jibby's era but it is still taking shape & not happening fast enough.

My educator wife decided to open her own School of Computational Thinking in June 2019 with actual classrooms modeled to the typical American way. The Craft Guru's classes are currently running in Taman Tun Dr Ismail and Setia Alam.

Having taught in various colleges and university in Malaysia, she is optimistic and hopeful that her CT contributions will benefit all the learning students and teachers in the near future. It is like a call for Tomorrow's Generation and to make learning fun.

Today, many farsighted parents sent their children to the CT classes in TTDI and Setia Alam. I myself studied in United States and did not realize that the American curriculum was aligned to the Computational Thinking's method. Back then, I felt the American lecturers were just very different and made my studying very interesting with all the motivation & encouragement to explore further on my own. We hardly looked at our text books there.

The good news came recently. The top private university expressed their recognition and had decided to engage Craft Guru Sdn. Bhd. to provide the Computational Thinking syllabus. My wife was invited to attend the signing of Memorandum of Understanding with University Tunku Abdul Rahman.

My wife and her business associate Bruce Lee at the University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in Kampar, Perak on 4th March 2020.

The VVIP speakers were invited to share their vision with all the invited distinguished guests.

My wife's photo is in the middle, together with all the other invited vendors of the industry who would contribute to bring up the ranking and quality of UTAR's education.

Besides this, my wife still continues to attend regular meetings as the Consultant for the Ministry of Education to plan the strategies and directions for the whole country's education. My God Daughter will be the new generation to enjoy the CT syllabus when our MOE rolls out the curriculum soon.

Future posts:

1. What is Computational Thinking?

2. My mission & goals to bring CT across to China with Aaron Choo.

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