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Environmental Protection
Project Alantic – To create a sustainable tomorrow
The earth is a beautiful place. It provides a natural platform to allow biotic and abiotic survive. It takes as long as 3.8 billion years for earth to create an ecological and biological stable cycle that we have today. In the other hand, modern civilization comes with consequences. Anthropogenic activities such as overuse of the natural resources, pollutions and use radiation.The earth has a 71% coverage of fresh and salt water. Hence, it is important to keep the aquatic ecosystem safe and sustainable. Although there are increases of environmental act and programs going on, there are always a lot more to be done in a normal individual daily life. People beginning to look into the environmental issues but yet they do not have the right knowledge and idea of how conservation works.With the Project Atlantic, we hope to spread awareness on the current issue and topic in the aquatic environment. Next, the green growth has been introduced to the public by the United Nation. The Project Atlantic will be carry out with the guide of the sustainable living goals (SDGs). Thus, the participants can understand and gain certain knowledge how and why is a sustainable aquatic environment so important to majority of the living organism. Beside, Project Atlantic’s syllabus has included the factor of practical living tips. Some hands-on skills will share in the sessions.Last but not least, we hope provide an option to the students to explore the applied science field but introducing and expose the participants the aquatic related careers and letting them experience the mini science conference.
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Quality Education
G.L.A.D. (Grammar Learning Adventures)
G.L.A.D. (Grammar Learning Adventures) is an innovative teaching method to help children learn English grammar through games. Children will be taught grammar parts of speech and they will be provided with enrichment activities in the form of board games and a grammar camp games. This will enable them to experience learning English through games. The school chosen for this project is a school in a rural area, SK Bongek, (NBA3011), Km 31, Jalan Tampin, 71300 Rembau, Negeri Sembilan. This school is one of the under-enrolled schools or Sekolah Kurang Murid (SKM) where the number of pupils registered were less than 150 from Year 1 to Year 6.  Students in this school needs to be helped in learning English. Due to the location of the school and the need to raise the standard of English, students need to be exposed to various experiences to motivate them to love the way they learn the language and eventually to use the language in daily activities. Undeniably, grammar is an essential part of a language. However, students are found to have grammatical problems in their use of English. This is based on the interview with the School Principal and the English Language teacher of SK Bongek. This has become an obstacle in their communication both in written and spoken forms.  Table 1: Results of March 2019 Test for Year 4, 5 and 6 SK Bongek, Rembau studentsYEARENGLISHABCDEPASSFAILNO.OF STUDENTS4Bahasa Inggeris Kefahaman1 (5%)3 (15%)0 (0 %)3 (15%)13 (65%)7 (35%)13 (65%)20 Bahasa Inggeris Penulisan1 (5%)0 (0 %)3 (15%)0 (0 %)16 (80%)4 (20%)16 (80%)205Bahasa Inggeris Kefahaman0 (0 %)1 (7%)2 (13%)1 (7%)11 (73%)4 (27%)11 (73%)15 Bahasa Inggeris Penulisan1 (7%)1 (7%)2 (13%)1 (7%)10 (67%)5 (33%)10 (67%)156Bahasa Inggeris Kefahaman1 (5%)1 (5%)7 (35%)0 (0 %)11 (55%)9 (45%)11 (55%)20 Bahasa Inggeris Penulisan1 (5%)2 (10%)5 (25%)3 (15%)9 (45%)11 (55%)9 (45%)20The table above shows the results of the Year 4, 5 and 6 students in their March 2019 test (verified by the School Principal, Puan Hamidah Othman). Generally, the passing rate is below 50%. The Year 1, 2 and 3 students do not take any assessments (as announced by the Malaysia Ministry of Education), hence, there are no results to be shown. However, in order to assist all the students in their English Language proficiency, this project will have the Year 1, 2 and 3 students to be involved as well. Grammar problems need to be tackled at an early stage also due to its importance in communication,. One of the ways is through grammar games and a grammar camp games and this project is called (G.L.A.D. – Grammar Learning Adventures).The proverb, practice makes perfect, which means doing something again and again is the best way to learn it. Hence, if these students from rural area are given the opportunities to practice English as much as possible, they will get better and better at it.  
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Helping the Underprivileged Community
Autistic Community Outreach
The project of Autistic Community Outreach aims to help the students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Resource and Education for Autistic Children (REACH) Segamat via the meaningful activities of vertical planting. Students with autism suffer difficulties in behavior, communication, social interaction and sensory sensitivities. By working together with the parents and teachers, this project attempts to nurture the autistic kids the interest in vertical planting, which may help to build their motor and social skills.Vertical planting is the vegetation that exists on a panel other than a flat horizontal surface. It can be as simple as a tier of stacked planters or as intricate as a high-rise wall completely covered in vegetation. Vertical planting is a wonderful alternative to potted plants. While potted plants have the advantage of being placed anywhere, they can take up space and require lots of maintenance. However, with vertical planting, there is only one large panel to maintain and the materials needed to build up the vertical planting structure can be from recyclable items such as bottles. The REACH Segamat was established in October 2008 as a Non-Profit Organization providing free services for autistic children and their families. The centre currently has 30 autistic students aged between 5 to 20 years. The center provides one to one teaching/ coaching, art and craft, music, pre-vocational training and helping the children in their motor, mental, social and academic development. With the recent moved to the new location, additional programme are added which include neuro-feedback, hydro therapy and sensory integration. Therefore, by introducing vertical planting, this project helps to promote the sensory integration of the autistic students. In addition, it is hope that this project may pave a way to generate some income to the Center in long run with the crop harvested from the planting.
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