YABHG DATIN PADUKA SERI ROSMAH MANSOR OFFICIATED MALAYSIA’S FIRST INCUBATOR PROGRAM TO DEVELOP LOCAL NOBEL LAUREATE’S TALENTS
30/01/2013
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BANGI, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- YABhg Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor today officiated Malaysia’s first Nobelist Mindset Workshop involving 80 high school students and PERMATApintar , 20 science teachers and 20 young scientists from all over Malaysia. The workshop was conducted by a teaching teams of 10 prominent international scientists assembled by the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS).
The workshop serves as a stimulus in developing and strengthening local human capital base through capacity building in supporting the national transformation towards realizing vision 2020 by intensifying on the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) skillsets.
The five day workshop followed the earlier MOU signed between Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and the NYAS during the Global Science Innovation and Advisory Council (GSIAC) meeting in New York in May 16, 2012 to develop local Nobel Laureate talents under the PERMATApintar platform.
On January 27, the first phase of the Nobelist Mindset Pilot Program will kick-off with a week-long course in which high-level educators and researchers affiliated with the Academy will visit Malaysia. They will instruct gifted high school students, science teachers, and outstanding young scientists affiliated with the PERMATAPintarTM Program, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Maktab Rendah Sains MARA and other Malaysian Ministry of Education schools on what it takes to become a prize-winning scientist. PERMATAPintar is a Malaysian program for gifted students, established through the guidance of the Prime Minister’s wife, and dedicated education advocate, YABhg. Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor.
The objective of this workshop is to expose and inculcate the skills identified by Nobel laureates as essential to success, including working across disciplines, learning to communicate the value of one’s work to diverse audiences, having passion for research, and setting an ambitious research agenda that will improve the human condition.
It is also aimed at building a network of exceptional local teachers who are connected to the young scientist and facilitating their interactions with scientist who serve as role models to the participants.
“The participants will learn and gain experience from NYAS’ teaching staff. A programme such as this is the first ever to be conducted in Malaysia and it aims at giving birth to local Nobel Laureate by the year 2020,” says YBhg. Prof. Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr. Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin, the university’s Vice Chancellor.
YBhg. Prof. Emeritus Dato' Sri Dr. Zakri Abdul Hamid, the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister and Joint Chairman of MIGHT, lauded the initiative by UKM as a part of the bigger education agenda under Cradle to Career( C2C) program launched earlier by YAB Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak and added that “ the government realizes the importance of having an elite and competitive workforce for Malaysia to excel in the global arena. Having the Nobelist mindset in our young augurs well for development of research prominence in our country.”
“Malaysia has invested heavily in the next generation of scientists and the students, scientists and teachers who participate in this course will have the extra edge towards a life of research that can improve the world through science. Our goal is to inspire the next generation of scientists to craft ambitious research agendas aimed at making the world a better place,” says Dr. Meghan Groome, Executive Director of Education and Public Programs at the NYAS.
Among the international scientists participating in the workshop are Stephen Brodbar, Noah Burg, Dr. Hilleary Osheroff, Larry Petcovic, Dr. Oscar Pineda-Catalan, Dr. Julia Rankin, Dr. Randall Ribaudo, Dr. Mark Saul, Amber Schaub and Stephanie Wortel with field of expertise that stretches from education and social science to neuroscience, neurobiology and biotechnology.
After the course, Nobel laureate Sir Richard Roberts will spend a month in Malaysia
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（新加坡、泰国、越南、印尼还没出声我们就先声夺人了，我们果然有着河马般的强国自信！！）
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