Celebrating Young Innovators at Coolest Projects Malaysia 2025
Program Highlights
Broadcom Foundation supports Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Coolest Projects online and in-person events worldwide, giving young innovators a platform to share their creative ideas with their peers. Whether big, small, a work in progress, or completed innovation, Coolest Projects offers an opportunity for students to showcase their projects that might change the world.
In November 2025, Coolest Projects Malaysia, organized by foundation partner Penang Science Cluster, hosted 1,906 students who submitted 1,171 exciting projects, with employees from Broadcom Malaysia serving as judges and presenters. A successful launch of the new AI category highlighted the foundation’s commitment to promoting responsible use of AI in Coolest Projects exhibitions. The creativity and commitment seen at Coolest Projects Malaysia underscores the importance of digital and AI literacy as critical 21st Century+ skills that all young people need to compete for highly skilled jobs in emerging industries built on technologies of the future.
Broadcom Coding with Commitment® Favorite Project Announced
Broadcom Coding with Commitment® recognizes students in middle school who combine STEM learning with coding to solve a community problem they care about—in their neighborhood, region, or on planet Earth—that aligns with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations.
Aligning with SDG #3─Good Health and Well-Being─the 2025 Coolest Projects Malaysia Broadcom Coding with Commitment® designees Sam Xi Ming, Tan Kai Le, and Sin Ou Shern created the Elderly Vital Assistant (E.V.A.), an AI-powered hardware assistant designed to support seniors living alone. Built using the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Inventor App, their system delivers medication reminders, monitors routines, issues emergency alerts, and offers simple conversational interaction to reduce loneliness. The students engineered E.V.A to promote safety, independence, and emotional well-being, a thoughtful response to challenges faced by aging communities.
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Broadcom Foundation advocates basic coding and AI literacy as 21st Century+ skills to solve community problems that students care about that align with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Broadcom Foundation promotes digital literacy as the confident use of the full range of digital technologies, including basic knowledge of coding and AI, and provides a catalyst for students to learn basic coding and AI as essential problem-solving tools in STEM.
