“Arus simply can be said as one of my most favorite places that I would spend my whole day at, without feeling boring.” Subashini (Maker Academy batch 2015 alumni) enjoy learning how technology is integrated in our daily life. She found herself getting interested in fancy science and eye opening technologies when she was going through […]
Throughout human history, we are always influenced by our friends, our family and the cultures around. Much of those we took to be our inner most desires and expected selves actually comes externally – how social upbringing shapes us. Girls might grow up to be a house wife because that role is seemed to be […]
If you were given the seating layout of an airplane and had to decide the seating arrangement of passengers who are going onboard, how would you arrange them knowing that a few of them have recently traveled to countries that had just experience a deadly outbreak? What if some of them were showing mild to […]
When we were looking ways to integrate STEM and Arts, theatre comes very naturally to our minds. It involves a lot of making. From making props to background lighting control, we love to see how students learn from making things – the maker education that we advocate for. With that in mind, we humbly collaborate with Leadspire Academy to host SP Setia […]
Last week concludes a 4-month long journey to incorporate our Maker Academy programme with 20 Pusat Internet under the purview of Digi. The new programme is called Digi Academy. The purpose of this programme is to improve meaningful engagement with the community surrounding the Pusat Internet so that the centre is not merely an Internet cafe. […]
Saturday wraps up a programme we have been doing in SMJK Jit Sin II since the beginning of 2018. It’s the Young Engineers for Society programme, modelled from the Arduino component of our Maker Academy programme. Arus has been working with this school since its inception two years ago to kickstart their Robotics Club. Students […]
Since our Maker Academy’s inception, we have been using the microcontroller CT UNO. CT UNO is designed based on the Arduino UNO form factor by Cytron Technologies. There are a few reasons to choosing Arduino, or rather CT UNO as our microcontroller platform. It was one of the easiest beginner microcontroller to learn, and we […]
It’s the last Friday of 2017 and what a year it has been for all of us at Arus! When we first started 3 years ago, we were only working with 20 students at our small learning center. Today, our learning center has more than doubled its size and we’ve even set up a […]
The Arus Maker Education (ARMED) Conference aims to showcase the potential of having maker education as a norm in our schools, through a variety of activities at our big booth in conjunction with MDEC’s #mydigitalmaker Fair 2017. ARMED is open to public, with colourful exhibitions, engaging workshops and inspiring discussions that happened almost simultaneously. By […]
