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Arus Academy Arus Academy empowers today's problem-solvers through engaging and exciting experiential learning a

Unmotivated students from underprivileged communities risk academic failure that can further contribute to the socioeconomic gap. Arus is an afterschool space that gives students meaningful learning experiences by allowing them to apply their knowledge through making, creating and innovating ideas and solutions that can bring relevance into their education.

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There are many reasons to why the students are not performing well in school. The most comprehensive one is the lack of accountability of all the stakeholders involved in making teaching and learning meaningful. From ineffective delivery in the classroom, missing connection of the knowledge applicability in real life to the unmotivated students when it comes to academic achievement all contribute to both the deteriorating results and conduct in school. Most parents are also not fully involved in their child’s development in school neither is the surrounding community providing a supportive environment for the child to excel as they act as passive observers when it comes to the child’s misbehaviors outside of school compound. Arus is an education intervention that hopes to motivate students back into being interested in learning through its creative solutions. Through embracing the maker education philosophy, Arus puts back relevance into learning through its project based curriculum that integrates science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics into everyday lessons. Arus hopes to develop students who are life long independent learners who has the grit, confidence and knowledge to change their life’s trajectory through education.

as adults who care deeply about kids, what if our desire to “help” is actually robbing them of their greatest opportunit...
18/08/2026

as adults who care deeply about kids, what if our desire to “help” is actually robbing them of their greatest opportunity to grow? - Conversations with Daniel, Arus’ co-founder and Director of Arus Penang Maker Academy.

FS4A di STEM Trailblazers: Dari Komuniti ke Pentas SarawakBaru-baru ini, pasukan FS4A dari Zon Utara dan Zon Selatan tel...
17/08/2026

FS4A di STEM Trailblazers: Dari Komuniti ke Pentas Sarawak

Baru-baru ini, pasukan FS4A dari Zon Utara dan Zon Selatan telah diberi peluang untuk menyertai STEM Trailblazers 2026 yang berlangsung di Sarawak Science Centre, Kuching.

Lima pasukan dari SMK Bario, SMK Telang Usan, SMK Tatau, SM Sains Kuching Utara dan SMK Penrissen membawa projek berasaskan komuniti mereka, dan selama dua hari berpeluang berkongsi idea, pitch projek serta berinteraksi dengan guru, pelajar, stakeholders dan orang awam sambil membina keyakinan untuk memperjuangkan idea mereka sendiri.

Antara momen yang paling bermakna ialah apabila beberapa pasukan berpeluang membentangkan projek mereka kepada YAB Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri (Dr) Abang Abdul Rahman Zohari, Premier Sarawak. Mereka turut berpeluang berkongsi projek dan berdialog bersama Puan Azlina Kamal dari UNICEF Malaysia.

Bayangkan seorang pelajar yang bermula dengan hanya satu masalah di komuniti sendiri, kini berpeluang berdiri di hadapan pemimpin dan stakeholders untuk berkongsi mengapa masalah itu penting dan apa yang mereka cuba lakukan untuk menyelesaikannya.

Itulah nilai sebenar pengalaman ini. Bukan tentang projek yang sempurna atau siapa yang paling hebat, tetapi tentang anak-anak muda yang mula percaya bahawa suara mereka didengari, idea mereka bernilai, dan mereka juga mempunyai tempat dalam membentuk masa depan Sarawak selaras dengan aspirasi Post COVID-19 Development Strategy 2030 (PCDS 2030) Negeri Sarawak.

Ini cerita mereka. Dan kami sangat bangga dapat menjadi sebahagian kecil daripada perjalanan itu. ❤️

16/08/2026

Struggling to make your lessons more memorable for your students or kids? 🤔📚

Hey, why not try the Rally Table teaching method!🏓

Instead of giving students everything at once, teachers break new materials into smaller parts! ✨

Want to know how you can use this method in your next class?

🎥 Watch this week’s Super Teacher Tips: Rally Table!

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Let’s learn and grow together! 💡

Arus’ July calendar recap & team whereabouts. tl;dr: We were everywhereeee: from Chow Kit to Penang to Negeri Sembilan t...
15/08/2026

Arus’ July calendar recap & team whereabouts. tl;dr: We were everywhereeee: from Chow Kit to Penang to Negeri Sembilan to Sabah to Kuching to Melaka to Gua Musang!

Takes a little kinda crazy belief and a LOT of heart from the team and also many many (many) supporters to have made all things in July happen.

THANK YOU to all the amazing, driven, purposeful & big hearted people who were part of our July (from our team to our funders to the teachers to students to administrators to parents and more), we could never express enough gratitude to you for being part of this brave movement to ensure a Malaysia where every child flourishes in a nurturing learning environment.

Here's to being a step closer to breaking down barriers to equitable learning 💪

Learn more about each calendar entry →

Maker Academy Classes @ Penang: Our students kicked off their project-making journey by warming up their fine motor skills and getting hands-on with real maker tools, handling a craft blade, hot glue gun, and screwdriver.

Follow Arus Maker Programmes for more on their progress. They have a Students' Exhibition coming up!!

FS4A Central District Training @ Negeri Sembilan: We trained schools in all 6 districts in Negeri Sembilan and here we are in Tampin N9 district with our partners from Google.

The FS4A Central programme is supported by Google together with , UNICEF Malaysia , Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation. and CelcomDigi Berhad. It’ s an expansion after previous implementations in 6 districts in Selangor last year.

Participating schools receive support to run student-led digital projects in their own communities, giving students opportunities to apply coding, computational thinking and digital problem-solving skills beyond the classroom.

FS4A K9/K11 @ Kelantan: FS4A K9/K11 is an initiative with , , , where we run our Future Skills for All programme over 3-4 days for students and teachers in K9 & K11 schools.

K9 and K11 schools in Malaysia are special comprehensive educational models created by the Ministry of Education to keep students from rural, remote, and Orang Asli communities from dropping out.

Students learn how to be problem solvers fo

Arus’ July calendar recap & Team whereabouts.10 years later and we still have pinch-me-moments whenever we look back at ...
14/08/2026

Arus’ July calendar recap & Team whereabouts.

10 years later and we still have pinch-me-moments whenever we look back at our calendar and see what we’ve been up to.

Undoubtedly kept our team on their toes (thank you everyone), but grateful to have the opportunity to be running meaningful learning adventures with our students and teachers.

Learn more about each calendar entry →

👀 Let's just say there's hardly a dull day in Arus for our team, no matter their positions! 🎡
13/08/2026

👀 Let's just say there's hardly a dull day in Arus for our team, no matter their positions! 🎡

28/07/2026

Behind every heartbreaking headline we've been seeing lately is a more important question: How can we better support young people before they reach a crisis?

Our CEO & Co-founder, Alina Amir, joined BFM 89.9 The Business Station to discuss student mental health, early intervention, and what it takes to build safer, more supportive schools.

(𝘱𝘴𝘴𝘵: 𝘈𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 , Yayasan Hasanah & Kementerian Kewangan🇲🇾 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 Program Guru KARISMA (Karakter Inspirasi Masyarakat), 𝘥𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸).

Here's a short excerpt from the conversation where she answers the question: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀' 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹-𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱?

🎧 For the full insightful clip, head on over to www.bfm.my > and search 'Arus Academy'.

28/07/2026

Behind every heartbreaking headline we've been seeing lately is a more important question: How can we better support young people before they reach a crisis?

Our CEO & Co-founder, Alina Amir, joined BFM 89.9 The Business Station to discuss student mental health, early intervention, and what it takes to build safer, more supportive schools.

(𝘱𝘴𝘴𝘵: 𝘈𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 , Yayasan Hasanah & Kementerian Kewangan🇲🇾 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 Program Guru KARISMA (Karakter Inspirasi Masyarakat), 𝘥𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸).

Here's a short excerpt from the conversation where she answers the question: What is the (mental health) situation like with students from lower income households?

🎧 For the full insightful clip, head on over to www.bfm.my > and search 'Arus Academy'.

Imagine students who are not able to answer the ever popular question “What is your passion?”“For children living in a m...
23/07/2026

Imagine students who are not able to answer the ever popular question “What is your passion?”

“For children living in a marginalised community, the world rarely asks what they want; it only tells them what they lack.
In those early days, their silence wasn’t a lack of interest, but a lack of practice in having a voice”.

Read on to see how the journey developed for the students and teacher Felicia over 7 years.

If you liked this bite-sized impact story, we’ve shared more in our 2025 Impact Report: arusacademy.org.my/web/our-impact

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