 Helo, nama saya Ernest. Mereka menyebabkan saya perempuan sekolah. Tapi sebenarnya, nama yang terbaik yang orang-orang tahu adalah prinsipa. Jadi, telah anda dengar pembentangan yang lebih baik di sekolah? Mungkin beberapa anda. Tapi banyak orang nampak... tidak menyebabkan sekolah ini. Kerana kita sebenarnya telah berada di sekolah lebih daripada 40 tahun. Okey. Saya akan menyebabkan ini... kerana saya ingin tahu di mana kita berada. Kita berada di Malbeten Road. Kita adalah sebahagian dari... Sengapura Associasi Singapura. Sekolah ini sebenarnya... Mari kita berada di sini. Sekolah ini sebenarnya telah dibuat pada tahun 1975. Dan itu lama lalu. Dan... Ia dibuat kerana kita mempunyai sebuah kumpulan... sebuah sebuah sebuah sebuah pelajar. Selepas mereka selesai sekolah kedua-dua, mereka tiada tempat untuk pergi... pada tahun 1970. Kerana pada masa terbaik, mereka akan pergi ke universiti atau... Pada masa itu, kita tidak mempunyai IT. Kita mempunyai VITB. Maksudnya, Vokasional Institute. Dan pada masa itu, banyak mereka ingin pergi ke... Vokasional Institute. Tapi kemudian... Mereka tidak bersedia untuk mengambil semua pelajar. Kerana mereka tidak mempunyai pelajar... untuk tahu bagaimana untuk mengambil... atau tahu bagaimana untuk mengajar pelajar. Jadi, Associasi telah memutuskan... bahawa mereka perlu mempunyai... pelajar kita sendiri. Pelajar Vokasional Institute. Jadi, ini adalah pertama... sebenarnya di Singapura, pertama pelajar Vokasional Institute... untuk pelajar yang mempunyai pelajar. Jadi, ini telah diberikan pada tahun 1975... dan kemudian, ia digunakan dengan MOE. Dan kemudian, pada tahun 206, kita mengambil... Pada awal ini, ia disebut... pelajar Vokasional Institute untuk helikopter. Tapi, anda tahu... helikopter yang selalu ada di Singapura. Jadi, kita mempunyai... pelajar Vokasional Institute pada tahun 206. Dan... ini sebenarnya... Pn. Osman Vokasional Institute. Pn. Osman Vokasional Institute. Pada masa ini, dia adalah... Pn. Osman Vokasional Institute... dan dia adalah seorang... yang meletakkan perjalanan untuk sekolah. Itu pada tahun 1973, apabila dia meletakkan perjalanan. Dan pada tahun 1975, kita mulakan sekolah. Sekarang, kami mempunyai... pelajar Vokasional Institute... dan perjalanan dalam hari itu... adalah sedikit berbeza. Jadi, kami mempunyai... program ini untuk mereka. Kami mempunyai... kita mempunyai... pelajar Vokasional Institute pada tahun 1973. Itu pada tahun 1970. Tapi, setelah itu... Singapura mulakan berubah. Kemudian... kami mulakan mempunyai... pelajar Vokasional Institute... untuk pelajar Vokasional Institute... untuk meletakkan perjalanan. Jadi, kami mempunyai... pelajar Vokasional Institute... dan pelajar Vokasional Institute... dan pelajar Vokasional Institute. Sekarang... Sekarang, sekolah kami adalah... apa yang kita nampak... perjalanan untuk ITE. Jadi, pelajar-pelajar... untuk menyelesaikan program kita... berjaya, mereka akan menerima... pelajar Vokasional Institute dari ITE. Ini adalah masalah kami. Kerana... pada awal... apabila sekolah... adalah untuk semua pelajar-pelajar. Kami ada... setiap tahun sekitar 100 pelajar-pelajar... pelajar-pelajar. Tapi pelajar-pelajar... memulakan perjalanan... di Singapura... dan ini adalah... baik untuk Singapura... kerana sekarang kita mempunyai... pelajar-pelajar di Singapura. Dan pada hari itu... pada tahun 1970... banyak pelajar-pelajar... itu adalah kerana... pelajar-pelajar... tidak terlalu baik... kerana banyak... pelajar-pelajar... mereka mempunyai... pelajar-pelajar Rubella... dan itu mempunyai pelajar-pelajar... pada masa itu. Jadi, kami mempunyai... banyak pelajar-pelajar... pada hari itu. Tetapi pada tahun lalu... pelajar-pelajar... pelajar-pelajar... kita memiliki... pelajar-pelajar yang sangat kecil... di sekolah kita. Jadi, mereka beritahu... mengapa tidak memuliki sekolah kita... untuk mengadu pelajar-pelajar... dengan pelajar-pelajar lain. Jadi, kami memuliki... banyak pelajar-pelajar... dari tempat yang berlaku... dan terutamanya mereka memiliki... pelajar-pelajar. Jadi, hari ini... kita memiliki pelajar-pelajar... dan pelajar... atau metricativ плохо dan... pembunuh Crash. Dan kita memiliki pelajar-pelajar yang az.. Arak. Kita memiliki... pelajar-pelajar... dan pelajar-pelajar... dan pelajar-pelajar. Dan ketika condensed dan sedang... merekaising pelajar. Dan per wants, cela rhyme perusan. Saya juga tycker... student that cannot be promoted into their own program so they are actually in a sense rejected by their own school so they come to us and our program here we have about 2 years program for them the most we can keep them in 3 years this is the program we have for them the year 1 they will do a lot of academic studies and general training and year 2 they will be specialized in one of the vocation and after that the second year they will be sent out for attachment practicum with a lot of our work based partners like hotels, restaurants they will go out to work for 6 months so these are the 3 programs that we have at our school preparation, FNB services and housekeeping operations and there is a description of what we train them in preparation basically we are training them to be helpers in the kitchen in restaurants and hotels and so on and FNB services, these are the front line where they learn how to serve they learn how to lay the tables and so on and to make cocktails and drinks and housekeeping operations of course we do have a mock up hotel room in our facilities we have mock up hotel rooms we have a mock up restaurant and kitchen where the students will be trained and this is the first year training they will do everything they try out all the 3 courses in addition to that of course we have other subjects English, Mathematics and so on and even Computers the hours are very long it's from 8 to 4 every day from Monday to Friday and on Thursday they have 8 to 5 they have CCA as well so it's like a regular school and they have regular holidays school holidays and so on and so it's very long 8 to 4 and a lot of the students that came to us actually in their own school they have half bay only so when they came to us they have to get used to it because it's very long hours and the reason why we want to keep them long hours in the school is to train them to last at least 8 hours because when they go out to work they have to work for 8 hours and this is the second year after in the second year the first half of the second year this is where we already know what their strength is and what their interest is so they specialize in one of the vocation other F&B services food preparation or housekeeping and after about 4 to 5 months of training we will send them out for attachment and this is some of our program that we have for them value added curriculum and job counseling and so on and let's move on to our management needs the school management needs and our school although we are funded by MOE we are only partially funded by MOE and we are not under the purview of MOE because our school is not considered a special education school because under MOE you have what they call special education branch but we are not under this special education branch and we are not mainstream school also so we don't belong to either of them so when I talk with MOE MOE say we don't know where to place you because your school is in a way very special you accept students from special school and you accept students from mainstream school also because you might remember that in mainstream school there are students with learning needs as well they have special needs as well so after a lot of them after they fail their PSLE they will go to places like Northlight or Assumption Pathways and some of the students after they have gone to this school they still cannot cope and they have nowhere to go because a lot of the students in Northlight Assumption Pathways after they have finished they will move on to maybe IT courses but all these students that came to Earth they can't cope and they can't pass the exam at school and they can't move on so they will send to us so for our school we accept students from places and so MOE said we are not sure how to place you and because we are not under any particular branch of the MOE unfortunately because of these we are not considered under the purview and the funding that they gave us is very limited we don't actually we don't benefit from a lot of the funds the different kinds of funds the IT funds and equipment funds are the school and joy so for us our resources is limited and when I came to this school I noticed that in keeping the student record and data and tracking the student it's all done manually they all done manually they still have you remember if some of you may remember in those olden days in the schools they have a very big record book I think most of you have not seen it but some of us have a big record book where they have right now all register all the student's name the family name and address and phone numbers and so on and we still have that and also when we came of course now we do use Excel to help us but it's very limited very limited and when it comes to tracking student and you know we are under a VWO we are under the Singapore Association for the Dev and every quarter we have to give them reports and we are still partially funded by MOE we still have to give them reports every year and sometimes every quarter and the government agency different government agency will come to us and ask us for statistics of our students and so on so every time when we try to churn out statistics for them we have to do it manually and it's very tedious and takes a lot of time and sometimes different agency they will ask for different kind of statistics so we find it very difficult and we have been because of our limited resources we can't hire some IT specially a programmer to write a program for us we have inquired before and it was very expensive and our school our board said that we cannot afford it and so I'm very glad that I found Tech Ladies it was actually introduced to me by a colleague she told me about Tech Ladies so I look up and I wrote to Elisha and Elisha responded we conversed over the phone and finally she said Tech Ladies will adopt us as one of the project and we are very thankful for that and also Michael so we are hoping that Tech Ladies will be able to help us be a management program a student management program where we can track our students and also churn out this statistic useful statistics that we can share with all our stakeholders and also we are hoping that all these software solution will be able to free us from all these tedious work of recording and doing everything manually free us away from all these tedious work so that we can focus more on our students so of course this program we are hoping that we can use this program for student monitoring as well so thank you very much just now just now Anthea taught you how to say I love you and thank you maybe I teach you how to say Tech Ladies there are two ways to do it okay, let me do it there are two ways to say technology one is like this one is like this so I think this one is a bit lady is like this this girl and is fine so lady so when you say like this lady people will misunderstood maybe crazy lady so it's better this is technology technology than lady tech lady okay thank you so much thank you still this can be our new thank you oh dear cool okay so next is Michael so Michael is not just sitting there he is actually a senior engineer he has senior power and he like over how many decades already one as an engineer as an engineer how many decades 10 plus years 10 plus years right okay so he will be leading the coach he is the coach for the more better vocational school yeah cool alright hi how is everybody okay so I am the last speaker today hopefully not too boring right so so our team Tong Wei yeah she is my my assistant coach Tong Wei and myself Michael we are doing a student management system for more better vocational school essentially here is a problem statement as earners have shared with us just now so due to the limited funding and manpower basically they still use a very manual system so we want to help them and basically it is very easy to lose track of where the students are duty roster or whether the taking note of their attendance and all that stuff it is very difficult can be updated and it is very difficult to generate and coordinate statistics imagine pouring through reams and books of attendance books to find out how long not the statistics it is not going to be easy so essentially what we propose to do is enhance the way in which they keep track of data and have online software where they can easily manage student data attendance even the grades and even automate the generation of statistics so that they can for this quarter click on some buttons and say hey this is the charts that you need these are the graphs that you need and these are the figures that you can just send to the relevant departments so we want to make this automated as much as we can so that is the idea just to be that is where we are going to bring them to and of course this is a bit of a journey so the journey will start with first of all a design studio so we will have UX designer who gear she will be helping both our teams our team and Wei Liang team to basically sit with the stakeholders and basically the NGOs and we will be in the team discussion together and we will chat with them about what their needs what their needs are and help them identify how we can how we can solve their problems it is not just a technical thing that we try to deliver so anyone can deliver a technical solution but what we want to do is deliver something that they will be delightful for the user experience for the people who are using this so in the case of MV for Marbetan Vocational School we have identified that the teachers will be the one who will be using this and administrators I did ask Ernest would your students like to do self help as they block in themselves and update their personal data and what not he has decided that maybe that is not really what they want the students to try to do so that is one thing we also want to identify whether that is what we think is what the system wants he thinks the system should be so in our workshop we will all come together and say is that what we all agree upon that this is what we want to do so that is what the design workshop design studio will do from there we will create a feature backlog basically a feature is like a user feature so we will come out with what we need to do break it down into smaller chunks so that we can distribute work and even work together on the different parts of the website we will have a weekly coaching session so as Ilarian say there will be 3-4 hours on the Saturday we will meet together and we will talk about hey what have you done this week let's catch up let's work on code together what your blockers are we will work as a team Tong Wei and myself and how many ladies to get 3 or 4 3 ladies 3 ladies in each team 3 ladies in each team so we sit together and both of our teams will be in the same place together again so both of our teams all of us will be in the same room and we will of course have 2 separate parts and we will basically be chatting about our project how we can make it better there will be regular code reviews a code review is basically you will written some code you put it up on github on some place and then we as mentors and coaches can look at it and say hey I made some mistakes here maybe we can try to make it better and that's basically what we do regular code reviews and of course we will constantly communicate with each other through Slack I'm sure all of you won't know what Slack is okay cool right so the coaching sessions as I said it will be you probably involves a short training session where we will also be giving you more information about hey how do you go about doing rails rails models how do you design your rails models what are design patterns that we use how you know stuff like that technical things they will go through and do a little bit of what I call mod programming actually not what I call it but it's what the industry called mod programming and pair programming pair programming basically a pair programming situation will be two persons with two sets of keyboard and mouse working on the same computer so that's the pair programming and the mod programming thing of it as one computer with a whole bunch of people in the same room just stare at the screen mod programming I will photo of it later so there will be weekly assignments we will try to get you guys to learn about new things and as we said we can check on your progress and of course we build features together either on your own or as a pair so we will Tong Wei and I myself we have actually done some testing with a remote system so we can even when you're at home and we are at home we can actually do remote pairing and we can I can check on your code together and work on the code together so something you want to try to do so there will be face time on the Saturday and of course on weekdays as you dedicate time to work on your code you'll find trouble or you're facing issues with the code that you're working on you can dial us in and we can help you will try our best to help you and oops press the wrong button sorry so here's the photo of us doing mod programming this is some of my colleagues at Sigma Power so where's the laser this one so this is my colleague Sujit and these are three basically our three junior engineers two of them are junior engineers and basically we're working together on the code together here this lady on the right is Vina she's actually one of the graduates on the first batch of tech ladies she's working she's working right now as a junior engineer in my company she's working on iOS code which is pretty interesting so she's when she was on tech lady she was working on Python on the Python project and when she picked up more skills on her own eventually we felt she was suitable and we hired her and brought her on the team so here is a situation where all four of them are in the same room and they're looking at code together so as a team as a group looking at code together it's a very good way for junior engineers to level up to learn new things and even learn for the good habits that your senior engineers can share with you so i find this is a very the very good way and fast way for junior engineers to level up to learn new skills and learn more about the code base so this is some of the tools that we're using so over here is Rails so we're working on the code in Rails so we're deploying the code on Heroku so that's the tools that we're using the project management tools and communication tools that we're using is filter tracker are the items that we need to work on and the chores that we need to work on and even the bugs that we've discovered in the system so we use this as a way of tracking all those things that's why tracking stuff and Slack is for communication your code will be uploaded to GitHub so that's where we host our code say it's like the social network for geeks of course at the same time we also make sure that our code i believe a lot in not doing things but we're very manual and repetitious we try to automate it so we use a system called CircleCI which is CISS or Continuous Integration basically it takes all the code that everyone has worked on we run some tests on them and immediately push them up into a place where code can be live and be used by users so that's Continuous Integration and basically there's a hosted software that we can use to try once you write a code you push it up onto GitHub it gets triggered voila it's on the website magically it's magic of course we also like want to make sure that your code that you have all written are clean as it makes make sure that your code is written of good quality so we use a software called Code Climate which will help us check on the code that we're writing it's not just my opinion but it's what the industry feels that a good code should be designed how it should be written so this is like automated way of checking your code and even my code because I'll be coding at the same time and if Code Climate says my code sucks it probably sucks so yeah so yes tools there are more tools here but of course we'll take collaborative approach we'll try to discover new tools together and try to find new ways of solving problems of course at the same time our focus is on solving a problem for our stakeholder our NGO so basically find out what they really want and try to help to solve the problem the best way that we can so that's me Michael that's my Twitter handle I've been working for 10 years in technology I'm a senior software engineer at Singapore Power I don't have a computer science degree I major in history and political science in the US so yeah so don't be afraid that technology is not scary this is about something comes in something goes out and Google is a good friend yeah so community involvement I actually run the PHP user group I co-founded an iOS user group called iOS Dev Scout I also run a conference called PHP called Asia I also started a website a few years ago called Engineer for SG it's a cool site I heard it's pretty nice you can check out plug yeah so yeah if you'd like to find what people are doing in the industry what they're teaching what they're talking about you can check out Engineer for SG and now I'll let Tong Wei talk a little bit about herself and yeah Hello I'm Tong Wei oops I'm an integrated circuit I'm IC a design engineer before for 4 years now I'm a software developer at a plug mesh I don't have a strong coding background so so no afraid have fun it's very fun Tong Wei it's quite interesting I met her she came for an interview at Single Power unfortunately we didn't hire her but I felt she has a lot of potential and she's been learning even as an engineer who's not done software as in not done programming websites in the long route but she picked up rails on her own and went through some interesting training programs on her own even working on open source projects contributing open source projects which I felt was pretty interesting so I really hope that her learning journey can also help whoever of you ladies who will join us in the future in this team her learning journey will help you benefit will benefit you in making your learning journey more fruitful and more effective right in a way we're all learning new things and I hope that through this process in tech ladies you all learn new things together and that's it thank you