[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
my name is Angela way I’m a 10th grader
at is pp I’m chinese-american and I came
to Cambodia about three years ago one
fact that not many people know about me
is that I teach robotics at ICP and a
few years ago I was a robotics world
champion that’s me
from the pink arrow that’s me with my
team we’re at the 2014 vex IQ middle
school world championship and we look
obviously very ecstatic we spent hours
and hours weeks upon weeks months upon
months in preparation for this
competition and to come out with the
biggest award was more than we could
ever dream of it’s safe to say that this
experiments was a life-changing for me
and still probably my happiest moment to
this day I’ve been doing robotics for
about 5 years now and robotics has
changed my life in so many positive ways
that I can’t begin to even explain and I
believe that robotics has the power to
change other people’s lives as well and
that’s why I’m giving you this TED talk
to explain why robotics and hands-on
STEM education is so vital for us here
in Cambodia so a bit of backstory on me
and ICP I teach fourth to sixth graders
robotics every Tuesday sometimes we code
sometimes we program or sometimes we
just watch the stupid robotics videos
but whatever it is the kids have full
creative control they can do whatever
they want and even though I enjoyed my
time competing there’s a thrill I get
from teaching that I don’t elsewhere
it’s inspiring to see these kids just a
few months ago when they came in nervous
and worried and unsure about everything
now they were walking in my class they
looked me in the eye and they said today
I want to build a robot that can beat up
other robots every single day and to see
that kind of confidence inspires me
because like them when I first started I
had no idea what I was getting myself
into it bit more backstory on me I lived
my entire life in Northern Virginia in
the United States right there I grew up
playing with LEGOs I left Pokemon and
like all older siblings I swore that my
younger sibling was the most annoying
demon in the world
so right there this all changed in fifth
grade when I did my FIRST Robotics
Competition the 2013
cyclic nature theory when I first joined
I didn’t know what I was getting myself
into I was unsure what it meant to do
robotics I just thought you were going
to build a robot and then it would walk
but instead what we did in nature’s fury
was oh by the way this is what I thought
it was going to look like some old guy
behind us darkroom typing away at a
computer sadly it’s not true instead
what we did was we interviewed countless
professionals about natural disasters we
created newsletters we make gigantic
poster boards and most of all we worked
so hard on developing our teamwork we
also ended up writing a book on natural
disasters and for my next few robotics
competitions made more books as you can
see over there illustrated by me in
sixth grade this all changed when I
moved to Cambodia in Cambodia
there was no robotics and for me since I
grew up in the United States my entire
life I went to the same school I had the
same friend since I was in since I was
six
it was completely completely devastating
to hear that I had to move to a new
country with the language I didn’t
understand to a city I’ve never been to
and go to a new school making your
friends but there was one thing that
made this entire proving process much
easier on me and that was surprisingly
school you see all the time that I spent
building and reprogramming my robot
ended up transferring into my everyday
school life all the time I spent
prepping interview questions and writing
up research reports ended up
transferring my research skills into my
history classes and to my art classes
and into my PE classes as well this are
the approaches to learning and we use
them at ICP as kind of a framework for
how kids learn and as you can see
there’s many different skills on here
such as critical thinking collaboration
and organization even though I was new
to is PP because I did robotics for so
many years all these skills came natural
to me and to me my first year at ice
would be so much easier than if I didn’t
do robotics so switching gears a bit I
think we can all agree that STEM fields
are credibly becoming very popular
nowadays
with many jobs opening up in these
sectors around the world and we can even
see that in TEDx with so many of the
talks today being about technology about
scientific advances but for the rest of
Cambodia this isn’t a popular trend
according to the phenomenon post in 2016
only 20% of all Cambodian college
graduates graduated in stem compared to
40% worldwide and only in all 15
year-olds in Cambodia the majority and
thought that math and science were their
least favorite subjects so why why is
Cambodia so uninterested in stem after
researching this and talking to multiple
teachers and reading countless reports I
came up with two big reasons but I’m not
going to tell you them because I want
you to talk about it with someone else
for a few seconds what do you think
these two reasons could be go
all right good does anyone have an idea
yeah
winner winner winner chicken dinner
anyone have any idea what the second one
could be that’s okay it’s this one might
be more something that you weren’t
expecting which is the belief that stem
is in a profitable subject so let’s go
to problem number one first the quality
of education as we all know the quality
of education in many Cambodian public
schools aren’t that great and it’s true
that the curriculum used to be
strengthened on our teachers need to be
taught more but like the Minister of
Education has said it’s not that we need
to make it better
rina makes science and stem more
interesting and more exciting he says
that some education needs to be
strengthened we must train teachers in
mathematics science and laboratory
skills and make the teaching more
exciting we need to make them more
engaging more interactive more fun for
the students instead of it just being
sitting in front of a table into the
entire day and memorizing math formulas
for the second reason I’m going to need
some of your health so can you please
raise your hand if you can speak English
wow that’s you all right keep your hand
up if English was not your first
language but your second language or
your third language or your fourth
language all right now keep your hand up
if you believe that English is better or
on par with your mother tongue now right
put your hands down so I’m going to put
a statement up on the board and if
you’ve seen this before or heard this
before had someone say this to you raise
your hand up learning to speak English
is the most important skill to secure a
better future in Cambodia have you seen
this heard this before raise your hand
write a good amount of you have and
sadly that’s the truth many parents and
educators and adults in Cambodia today
don’t believe that the stem is
profitable they think that what gets
people to success it’s English and
learning business going to banking and
accounting that gives them a secure
future for the rest of their lives you
don’t think that science and math are
reliable and they won’t pay well so what
can we do this is a big question the
disinterested stem it’s not sellable by
any single one of us individually but
there are a few things that our school
systems could do the first is
introducing flipped classrooms so some
of you might know this but flipped
classrooms is basically where
instead of you going to the teacher for
lectures you listen to the class in the
lecture at home and then in school you
do activities there this helps you
develop what you learned in class and
applied in real time activities such as
doing a lab experiment or even writing a
research report the second one is more
straightforward which is something to do
more hands-on experimentation in science
this means lab reports but in math this
could also mean going outside to take
photographs of parabolic shapes it could
mean an engineering where you go out and
interview real engineers and the third
one which what ivan grouting is robotics
it’s an easy way for kids to develop
their math and science skills without
them knowing that they’re passively
learning these skills all at once these
hands-on education is very important for
us because it’s engaging it’s hands-on
and most of all it’s practical all the
skills you learn and your science
subjects cuz then be transferred to any
subject whether it be history or math or
art or music it develops your teamwork
skills and adults your problem-solving
skills and your ability to tackle
real-life problems in the world there’s
already been doing there’s already so
many good work being done that we’ve
seen in Ted TEDx today so many kids are
not becoming more interested in
technology and innovation and coding and
science and it’s so amazing to see that
but that doesn’t mean that you can slack
off – there’s something that here
everyone can do if you’re a parent just
simply go online and search up some apps
you’ll see there are tons of apps that
you skip out of code do math or science
in a fun engaging way if you’re a
teacher all those strategies that I
presented in the previous slide are
easily doable at no cost and don’t
require any time or energy at all if
you’re a student and you think that
maybe math is in your best subject or
science this isn’t for you remember my
annoying younger sister that’s her right
there
and she also thought that math was not
something that she was very strong at
she’s in my robotics class and she
didn’t believe that she was going to do
very well but unbeknownst to her there
was going to be a video played of her
robot working and following a black line
there we go
so her and all of the kids in her class
were able to make this robot follow a
lines follow black line in less than an
hour can we play it
all in an hour yeah good mm-hmm if my
sister could do it there’s no reason why
you can’t do it too so what does this
all mean for us there’s no doubt in my
mind that Cambodia is going to need more
scientists more programmers more coders
more engineers but that doesn’t mean
that we need to force our kids to become
those by learning giving them hands-on
STEM education it gives them the
opportunity to practice becoming a
scientist or an inventor but it also
gives them the skills that they can use
in every other subjects by teaching
hands-on some education we are prepping
our kids to become the leaders for our
future the leaders for our hopeful
future thank you very much and if you
want to learn more about Lego robotics
tomorrow at ion I’m hosting a robotics
master class if you’re interested in the
program as a whole
police’s drop in and say hi and ask any
questions it’s really no cost it’s at
Advanced Learning Academy at an MA from
three to five thank you so there was our
last speaker and
and my name is Joo young and I’m a Sikh
another senior TEDx ICT organizer and
this was my third time organizing TEDx
ICP and compared to the last two years
Ted sicp
today we had a best audience and we had
a best speakers and I really want to say
thank you to our audiences who have
listened to the four hours of non-stop
talk show and whoever understand and
supported our beautiful speakers and
next I really want to say thank you to
our organizers especially jr. who have
organized a TEDx ICP until now for three
years and the Miss Earth who have
started the TEDx ICP and were supported
and gave us a helpful feedback during
the event and lastly I really want to
say thank you to to our 17th speaker who
have shared our ideas and who have
created a hopeful future for us in today
during today’s TEDx IPP so can everyone
give another round I’ll pause for our
speakers
and so officially we are done with our
TEDx is VP 2017 this year creating a
whole field future and thank you for
everyone and hope I hope to see you
during the next year at high density
also thank you oh and by the way we are
selling the TEDx i3 teachers it’s only
$12 so just buy and support our next
year today’s with you earlier thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
my name is Angela way I’m a 10th grader
at is pp I’m chinese-american and I came
to Cambodia about three years ago one
fact that not many people know about me
is that I teach robotics at ICP and a
few years ago I was a robotics world
champion that’s me
from the pink arrow that’s me with my
team we’re at the 2014 vex IQ middle
school world championship and we look
obviously very ecstatic we spent hours
and hours weeks upon weeks months upon
months in preparation for this
competition and to come out with the
biggest award was more than we could
ever dream of it’s safe to say that this
experiments was a life-changing for me
and still probably my happiest moment to
this day I’ve been doing robotics for
about 5 years now and robotics has
changed my life in so many positive ways
that I can’t begin to even explain and I
believe that robotics has the power to
change other people’s lives as well and
that’s why I’m giving you this TED talk
to explain why robotics and hands-on
STEM education is so vital for us here
in Cambodia so a bit of backstory on me
and ICP I teach fourth to sixth graders
robotics every Tuesday sometimes we code
sometimes we program or sometimes we
just watch the stupid robotics videos
but whatever it is the kids have full
creative control they can do whatever
they want and even though I enjoyed my
time competing there’s a thrill I get
from teaching that I don’t elsewhere
it’s inspiring to see these kids just a
few months ago when they came in nervous
and worried and unsure about everything
now they were walking in my class they
looked me in the eye and they said today
I want to build a robot that can beat up
other robots every single day and to see
that kind of confidence inspires me
because like them when I first started I
had no idea what I was getting myself
into it bit more backstory on me I lived
my entire life in Northern Virginia in
the United States right there I grew up
playing with LEGOs I left Pokemon and
like all older siblings I swore that my
younger sibling was the most annoying
demon in the world
so right there this all changed in fifth
grade when I did my FIRST Robotics
Competition the 2013
cyclic nature theory when I first joined
I didn’t know what I was getting myself
into I was unsure what it meant to do
robotics I just thought you were going
to build a robot and then it would walk
but instead what we did in nature’s fury
was oh by the way this is what I thought
it was going to look like some old guy
behind us darkroom typing away at a
computer sadly it’s not true instead
what we did was we interviewed countless
professionals about natural disasters we
created newsletters we make gigantic
poster boards and most of all we worked
so hard on developing our teamwork we
also ended up writing a book on natural
disasters and for my next few robotics
competitions made more books as you can
see over there illustrated by me in
sixth grade this all changed when I
moved to Cambodia in Cambodia
there was no robotics and for me since I
grew up in the United States my entire
life I went to the same school I had the
same friend since I was in since I was
six
it was completely completely devastating
to hear that I had to move to a new
country with the language I didn’t
understand to a city I’ve never been to
and go to a new school making your
friends but there was one thing that
made this entire proving process much
easier on me and that was surprisingly
school you see all the time that I spent
building and reprogramming my robot
ended up transferring into my everyday
school life all the time I spent
prepping interview questions and writing
up research reports ended up
transferring my research skills into my
history classes and to my art classes
and into my PE classes as well this are
the approaches to learning and we use
them at ICP as kind of a framework for
how kids learn and as you can see
there’s many different skills on here
such as critical thinking collaboration
and organization even though I was new
to is PP because I did robotics for so
many years all these skills came natural
to me and to me my first year at ice
would be so much easier than if I didn’t
do robotics so switching gears a bit I
think we can all agree that STEM fields
are credibly becoming very popular
nowadays
with many jobs opening up in these
sectors around the world and we can even
see that in TEDx with so many of the
talks today being about technology about
scientific advances but for the rest of
Cambodia this isn’t a popular trend
according to the phenomenon post in 2016
only 20% of all Cambodian college
graduates graduated in stem compared to
40% worldwide and only in all 15
year-olds in Cambodia the majority and
thought that math and science were their
least favorite subjects so why why is
Cambodia so uninterested in stem after
researching this and talking to multiple
teachers and reading countless reports I
came up with two big reasons but I’m not
going to tell you them because I want
you to talk about it with someone else
for a few seconds what do you think
these two reasons could be go
all right good does anyone have an idea
yeah
winner winner winner chicken dinner
anyone have any idea what the second one
could be that’s okay it’s this one might
be more something that you weren’t
expecting which is the belief that stem
is in a profitable subject so let’s go
to problem number one first the quality
of education as we all know the quality
of education in many Cambodian public
schools aren’t that great and it’s true
that the curriculum used to be
strengthened on our teachers need to be
taught more but like the Minister of
Education has said it’s not that we need
to make it better
rina makes science and stem more
interesting and more exciting he says
that some education needs to be
strengthened we must train teachers in
mathematics science and laboratory
skills and make the teaching more
exciting we need to make them more
engaging more interactive more fun for
the students instead of it just being
sitting in front of a table into the
entire day and memorizing math formulas
for the second reason I’m going to need
some of your health so can you please
raise your hand if you can speak English
wow that’s you all right keep your hand
up if English was not your first
language but your second language or
your third language or your fourth
language all right now keep your hand up
if you believe that English is better or
on par with your mother tongue now right
put your hands down so I’m going to put
a statement up on the board and if
you’ve seen this before or heard this
before had someone say this to you raise
your hand up learning to speak English
is the most important skill to secure a
better future in Cambodia have you seen
this heard this before raise your hand
write a good amount of you have and
sadly that’s the truth many parents and
educators and adults in Cambodia today
don’t believe that the stem is
profitable they think that what gets
people to success it’s English and
learning business going to banking and
accounting that gives them a secure
future for the rest of their lives you
don’t think that science and math are
reliable and they won’t pay well so what
can we do this is a big question the
disinterested stem it’s not sellable by
any single one of us individually but
there are a few things that our school
systems could do the first is
introducing flipped classrooms so some
of you might know this but flipped
classrooms is basically where
instead of you going to the teacher for
lectures you listen to the class in the
lecture at home and then in school you
do activities there this helps you
develop what you learned in class and
applied in real time activities such as
doing a lab experiment or even writing a
research report the second one is more
straightforward which is something to do
more hands-on experimentation in science
this means lab reports but in math this
could also mean going outside to take
photographs of parabolic shapes it could
mean an engineering where you go out and
interview real engineers and the third
one which what ivan grouting is robotics
it’s an easy way for kids to develop
their math and science skills without
them knowing that they’re passively
learning these skills all at once these
hands-on education is very important for
us because it’s engaging it’s hands-on
and most of all it’s practical all the
skills you learn and your science
subjects cuz then be transferred to any
subject whether it be history or math or
art or music it develops your teamwork
skills and adults your problem-solving
skills and your ability to tackle
real-life problems in the world there’s
already been doing there’s already so
many good work being done that we’ve
seen in Ted TEDx today so many kids are
not becoming more interested in
technology and innovation and coding and
science and it’s so amazing to see that
but that doesn’t mean that you can slack
off – there’s something that here
everyone can do if you’re a parent just
simply go online and search up some apps
you’ll see there are tons of apps that
you skip out of code do math or science
in a fun engaging way if you’re a
teacher all those strategies that I
presented in the previous slide are
easily doable at no cost and don’t
require any time or energy at all if
you’re a student and you think that
maybe math is in your best subject or
science this isn’t for you remember my
annoying younger sister that’s her right
there
and she also thought that math was not
something that she was very strong at
she’s in my robotics class and she
didn’t believe that she was going to do
very well but unbeknownst to her there
was going to be a video played of her
robot working and following a black line
there we go
so her and all of the kids in her class
were able to make this robot follow a
lines follow black line in less than an
hour can we play it
all in an hour yeah good mm-hmm if my
sister could do it there’s no reason why
you can’t do it too so what does this
all mean for us there’s no doubt in my
mind that Cambodia is going to need more
scientists more programmers more coders
more engineers but that doesn’t mean
that we need to force our kids to become
those by learning giving them hands-on
STEM education it gives them the
opportunity to practice becoming a
scientist or an inventor but it also
gives them the skills that they can use
in every other subjects by teaching
hands-on some education we are prepping
our kids to become the leaders for our
future the leaders for our hopeful
future thank you very much and if you
want to learn more about Lego robotics
tomorrow at ion I’m hosting a robotics
master class if you’re interested in the
program as a whole
police’s drop in and say hi and ask any
questions it’s really no cost it’s at
Advanced Learning Academy at an MA from
three to five thank you so there was our
last speaker and
and my name is Joo young and I’m a Sikh
another senior TEDx ICT organizer and
this was my third time organizing TEDx
ICP and compared to the last two years
Ted sicp
today we had a best audience and we had
a best speakers and I really want to say
thank you to our audiences who have
listened to the four hours of non-stop
talk show and whoever understand and
supported our beautiful speakers and
next I really want to say thank you to
our organizers especially jr. who have
organized a TEDx ICP until now for three
years and the Miss Earth who have
started the TEDx ICP and were supported
and gave us a helpful feedback during
the event and lastly I really want to
say thank you to to our 17th speaker who
have shared our ideas and who have
created a hopeful future for us in today
during today’s TEDx IPP so can everyone
give another round I’ll pause for our
speakers
and so officially we are done with our
TEDx is VP 2017 this year creating a
whole field future and thank you for
everyone and hope I hope to see you
during the next year at high density
also thank you oh and by the way we are
selling the TEDx i3 teachers it’s only
$12 so just buy and support our next
year today’s with you earlier thank you
[Applause]
[Music]
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