E-Week 2009 @ Grandhall, Multimedia University

After 3 months of hard work and timeless effort, the Engineering Society had finally arrived on the day where everything will gather in our Multimedia University Grand Hall, Cyberjaya. From the 19th February 2009 till the 22nd February 2009(Thursday till Sunday), various astronomy related party had joined us here in E-Week 2009: Beyond the Sky to bring you an unforgettable educational astronomy experience. From our very own National Space Agency(ANGKASA) to the main sponsor of this program, MOTOROLA, as well as co-sponsor, JATI, we bring you exciting facts of space, showing you night sky as you never seen before, mini planetarium, telescopes, telecommunication systems and more.

That's not all, Dr. Chong Hon Yew, Advisor of the Astronomy Club of Universiti Sains Malaysia(USM), one of the very famous person in Malaysia's astronomical activities, had came all the way down from Penang island and be here with us in these four days activities. During E-Week 2009, we managed to build 11 water rockets, 5 with parachutes and another 6 without parachutes. Despite of the hot weather, it doesn't stop the students for going out to the open space to launch their self-built water rocket. Count-down was made as ,one-by-one, each of the rocket is launched into the sky. It was indeed an exciting and fun experience for everyone, even to the commitee members itselves.
Apart from that, ever seen and touched a rainbow before? According to the theoritical facts, it is impossible for anyone to go near and touch the rainbow. Well, on the third day of E-Week 2009, Dr. Chong had brought us close to the rainbow than we can ever imagine. By building a spectrohelioscope, using just a few recyclable material(tissue box, cd-roms, mirror...), we manage to capture the solar rainbow in screen. The students definitely enjoyed it.

During the night, STARGAZER SCIENTIFIC showed us the night sky which is beyond our imagination. We managed to see planet venus, saturn(with the saturn ring), comets, etc. Besides that, by using their high-end laser pointer, the whole sky is like a blackboard to them, pointing and showing us constellation of the stars, Orion for instance.

Further coming up is the setting up of Astronomy Club in Multimedia University. Stay tuned with us as we will bring you far more exciting experience than before!