Robotics at Al Siraat

22 March 2018

The colourful and fun Lego bricks are indeed a familiar sight to everyone. However, our Middle Years and Senior Years students have gone a step further with the Lego bricks and transform them to a geeky-high tech robots in our classroom. The robots are built with mechanical motors, optical sensors, colour sensors that would allow it to perform simulated real-life challenges.

Robotics at Al Siraat

All this is part of our College’s STEM education through our Robotics Programme that exposes students to programming in a fun and interactive manner. After spending the initial two weeks on assembly and understanding the concepts of programming, our students are now navigating the challenges of a simulated real-life environment as they programme their robots to perform specific tasks and challenges. The new robotics programme challenges our students to analyse problems, devise a solution and hones their problem-solving skills. Through this, students also learn inter-disciplinary concepts such as distance, angles and coordinates.

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It is wonderful to see our students engaging in their learning as well as having the enthusiasm to challenge. The Art & Technology Department intends to gather a few enthusiastic students to form a core team that would represent our school in robotics competitions.

Robotics at Al Siraat

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Suffian Amin Assistant Head Secondary Curriculum Read profile

Suffian Amin

Assistant Head Secondary Curriculum

MEd (Curriculum & Teaching), PGDEd, BEng (Hons)

Suffian Amin is the Head of Art at Al Siraat College. He began his teaching career in Singapore and taught GCSE Design & Technology (D&T). Prior to his appointment at Al Siraat College, Suffian held the position of Year Head and Subject Head at the school.

Suffian is very passionate on design education and its role in promoting critical and creative thinking in students. He was actively involved in curriculum planning and professional development of D&T educators with Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University (National Institute of Education) in Singapore. In 2014, Suffian wrote a chapter, “The Nature of Intuition in Design” in a book “Disciplinary Intuitions and the Design of Learning Environment (Lim, 2014)”. In addition, he co-wrote a paper titled ‘Experiential Design – insights into its focus’ in 2011.

Suffian moved to Melbourne in 2014 in pursuit of a new challenge. He believes that education is a pivotal enabler for social mobility and that every child can learn. He is very happy to be part of the Al Siraat community and looks forward to nurturing and moulding the bright and young minds in our school.

Suffian graduated with Master of Education specialising in Curriculum and Teaching, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).