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The proposed community project will be conducted in a one day session. There are several activities during the day to achieve the intended objectives of the project.


Figure 1.0: Project Structure

As shown in the above diagram, the proposed project consists of several activities to achieve the stated objectives.

The project will start off with a talk to the participants on the background of the nation, the importance of maintaining goodwill among the races, and related theme. Due to nature of the target participant (which is primary school children), the talk will not be too heavy in content, but more in a relax and fun way.

After the talk, the participants will get involved in lab activities. The objectives of the lab sessions is to inculcate the spirit of goodwill among the participants through computer related activities.

The first activity will involve an activity to create a greeting card(s) for another friend which must not be from the same race. The theme of the greeting card is the major festivity for that particular race such as "Hari Raya", "Gawai", "Chinese New Year", "Christmas" and so on. Therefore, the participants need to do some research (through asking their friend about the event or searching in the Internet for information). At the same time, the participants will be taught on how to use publishing software to create the greeting card. Thus, they will get some knowledge on IT related skill through this activity. To make the activity more interesting, there will be prizes for the best 3 greeting cards.

The second activity will have the same objective of nurturing goodwill among different races, but through different medium which is using audio. Students will be grouped together whereby each group will consists of different race. Each student in a group need to think and find out about folk song that they have heard before from their parents and so on. For example, student from Malay community might remember songs like "Rasa Sayang", "Lenggang Kangkung" and so on, while other students will find about their own folk song. Again, they will learn from each other about the song, and finally they will learn on how to record the song through computer, and learn how to use media player to play back the song.

The third and last activity is through video medium. Again the students will be grouped together as in activity 2. In this activity, they need to come up with a short sketch (ala Petronas Advert) with theme "Unity and Goodwill". Each group will then record their sketch using video cam and learn how to transfer and edit the video in computer.