Bruneian Students to Compete in ASEAN Cyberkids Camp 2024, Viet Nam

Brunei Darussalam will participate in the ASEAN Cyberkids Camp 2024 from 8 to 9 August 2024 hosted in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Selected students from Sekolah Rendah Rimba III will represent the country in two teams accompanied by their tutors:

Sekolah Rendah Rimba III previously won the Primary School Category of the “Coding with Smart Devices for Government Schools” competition held in February 2024, a culmination of the pilot project between Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI) and Ministry of Education which aimed to improve the students’ coding skills and computational thinking through learning using smart devices. The school was also the winner for Primary School Category in Brunei ICT Awards (BICTA) 2024 recently held in July 2024.

Participants of ASEAN Cyberkids Camp will be tasked to create a project using Scratch version 3.0 software based on a theme that will be announced on the day of the competition. The theme will be selected randomly out of ten (10) Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) topics proposed by the tutors.

Participants and tutors with representatives of AITI and MOE

The ASEAN Cyberkids Camp, introduced in 2008 and initiated by Malaysia, aims to enhance the skills of students aged between 7 and 12 in critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, creative use of ICT, and awareness of cross-cultural issues. It has become one of the ideal ASEAN-level activities which aims to promote regional cooperation and integration among ASEAN Member States (AMS). The Camp is one of the initiatives under the ASEAN Digital Ministers Meeting (ADGMIN) which is supported by the ASEAN Digital Senior Officials Meeting (ADGSOM) in which AITI is actively involved.