"When you are focus to do something good, the whole world will come to help you!".

I decided to start Malaysia Young Makers Academy (MYMA), with Mystartr's crowdfunding platform.

What is a computer program?

Computer program is the language of human communication with the computer, we can command the computer through the computer program to perform various tasks.

I love kids and I also love to code and create electronics inventions, for example this is one of the project that I did:

The following 3 In 1 Light Controller was builded by me, using computer programming and electronic invention.

We can control the light switch by touching the tablet screen,

Shake the tablet, to turn on and off the light bulb.

And also control through voice command.

This is because we have the command of the computer.

Why study computer coding?

Computers and software are changing everything ....

"Everyone in this country should learn how to program a computer ... because it teaches you how to think." - Steve Jobs

Bill Gates of Microsoft said children should learn programming:

This is not what I said, but the former U.S. President Barack Obama said:

Is computer programming difficult to learn it? Let Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg  tell you, personally:

If Yuma can do it, your child can do it too!

Now, many children around the world are learning computer programming:

Will children's future have any relationship with computer programming?

The above Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are the best proof of computer coding talent.

Ministry of Education Malaysia has started to implement the computer programming curriculum for primary school. But this is not enough because:

Not every school has enough teacher to teach computer programming:

The future trend:

Several weeks ago, I was inspired by Professor Su from Taiwan, about what he did:

https://www.gvm.com.tw/article.html?id=32785

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=789&v=guCacqy4MAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIcmO2R3j1M

And today I want to create the same platform for our youth and teenagers in Malaysia.

With the help from our community, the establishment of Malaysia Young Maker Academy (MYMA) will teach young kids how to code and create innovation products.

The academy will provide the coding learning programme to teenagers and kids from Chinese medium education, in general. The special focus will be those young kids from low income family, single parent family, orphan and unprivileged kids to learn a living skills on how to code, this will change their life and giving the hope to them.

I know the journey will be full of challenges and will not be easy, but I know the impact of the success is so meaningful to a lot of young kids, so I decide to pursuit it.

My plan for MYMA activities are:

1. Provide free training class for unprivileged young kids. Teach them how to code, from beginner to advance level. Conduct the class in dual language, Mandarin and English. Currently there is no formal coding class conduct in Mandarin in Klang Valley, after I conducted some survey.

Those kids from affordable family, will only charge for a nominal fees example RM80 to RM100 per month. This is still much lower than the other coding school (only one teaching medium: English), that charge around RM300 to RM400 per month.

2. Have plan to recruit students from primary chinese school and secondary independent school. Will able to use back the existing computer facilities.

3. Design, develop and roll out two to three new coding training syllabus programme, each year.

4. Create the young makers lab programme for teaching youth to combine the coding skills with electronics inventions and art.

5. Conduct hackathon and contest for youth to create their inventions within contest duration.

6. Recruit voluntary / intern from university to assist the academy, initially. This provide the internship programme opportunities for universities student.

7. For those good performance youth who graduate from the academy programme, will be recruit for the new batch of lecturers to train new batches of young kids. Hence, the supply of teacher for academy, will be self-sustainable.

8. The Maker Lab can also running as separate social entrepreneurship business model to run consultancy works and project, for example Internet of Things (IoT) projects to full fill local community requirement. The income from the works will be channel back to support the academy's operation expenses.

9. Will setup online distance computer learning programme, for those student that stay far away from academy.

10. Will collaborate with some multi-national companies on their CSR programme to get the contribution of sponsorship of hardware/software for to equip the academy's facilities.

But how to kick start my project it? I will need the community support to fund this meaningful project. Because it definite will create the long term positive impact to the kids, for now and future.

So I decided to fund-raising or crowd-funding, specifically through the Internet to showcase and promote the contents of the project, the original design and creative works, and with the public to explain the plan to public or realization of this work by raising funds . The people who are willing to support, participate in and purchase can make this plan, design or dream come true by means of "sponsorship". Within a certain period of time, the completion of the goal of setting the amount of fund-raising in advance is the successful fund-raising, and can start the project.

Mystartr is the only Chinese-based crowdfunding platform among the crowdfunding platforms. For more on Mystartr and the competitions, please read:

http://rewards.mystartr.com/

https://rewards.mystartr.com/dreamfactorystartupcontest