Students from Foundation Studies on Management, through class activity AQ0013 Fundamental Mathematics 1 have become agents to increase the level of knowledge among the community through a one-month program through September and October organized by the Centre for Testing, Measurement, and Appraisal (CeTMA), in collaboration with the Centre for Foundation Studies, National STEM Association (Kedah), and MYSUN Network.

In this program, students need to create an activity that utilizes fundamental mathematics knowledge, to increase awareness and exposure towards two important global challenges – sustainable living, and acceptance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, to be transferred to the community. There are four selected themes in this program – financial literacy, disaster response, habitat security, and climate change.

Students are given 5 weeks until the final delivery of the program. They adopted the Explore, Discover, Develop (ExDiD) method to create the projects, in which among its requirement is to provide the transfer of knowledge to recipients, rather than volunteerism or awareness activity. This is in the hope to empower students as well as recipients in the creation of more effective and impactful knowledge retention and innovation.

A total of 202 participants have received benefits from this program.

One facilitator mentioned that he gets a new experience, and understand his talent and ability to share something of value with the community, in particular, personal financial management; while one recipient is thankful that she now knows how to save money and the importance to have emergency savings for a more sustainable living.