𝐒𝐞𝐤𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧: 𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐂 𝟑.𝟎 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 — 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐲

Many students today experience stress, loneliness, or sadness, and not everyone has someone to talk to. Professional support can also be expensive or difficult to access. Motivated to find a simple and friendly solution, a team of Primary 6 students from Sekolah Rendah Paragon explored how technology could provide emotional support in an affordable and accessible way.

Through creativity and teamwork, they designed Mood Buddy, a low-cost Arduino-powered robot that responds to different emotions via buttons, playing relaxing music, giving encouraging messages, or showing happy face on its screen. This interactive approach helps students feel comforted, cheered, and less lonely, while also being easy to customize for different ages and emotional needs.

A roaring congratulations to 𝐀𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐁𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐝 𝐙𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧 (𝐏𝟔.𝟏), 𝐉𝐚𝐲𝐜𝐢𝐞 𝐍𝐠 (𝐏𝟔.𝟐), 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐧𝐚𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐀/𝐏 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐧 (𝐏𝟔.𝟐) for capturing the 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐥 at ICTC 3.0! Your heartfelt ideas, inventive thinking, and outstanding effort have made the entire school beam with pride!