STEM icons credit parents with success


Congratulations: Fadhlina (back row, centre) posing for a photo with some of the award recipients. — SHAARI CHEMAT /The Star

HAD it not been for her parents’ support, Student Icon Award recipient Chuah Yee Jia may never have found her love for science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM).

Crediting them with her win, the 15-year-old student from SMK Seri Bintang Utara, Kuala Lumpur, said they even drove her all the way to Penang to buy the parts needed for her robots and innovations when she could not find them in the Klang Valley.

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