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Hiroshi Onishi
Specialist
SEAMEO RECSAM
Penang

Mr. Hiroshi Onishi is a Senior Volunteer of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
serving as a specialist at the Training Programme Division, SEAMEO RECSAM, Penang since April
2019. He was a science teacher in Japan for 30 years. His work was published in the “Science
Education November Issue” in 2010 which was edited by the Teaching Society of Japan. He had
been involved as a JICA Senior Volunteer on Science Education in the Strengthening of
Mathematics and Science Education in Ethiopia, attached to Addis Ababa Education Bureau in the
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 2015 to 2017. Prior to that, he had also worked on
‘Developing apparatus in Lahore Education College in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 2006-2008.
He had served at the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer of JICA as a Science teacher at
Magawa Secondary school in the Republic of Malawi in 1994-1996.

Norhailmi bin Abdul Mutalib
Excellent Science Teacher

SMK Jerlun
Kedah

Mr. Norhailmi is the icon of Malaysia STEM Teacher, Ambassador of MOSTI Science and award
of Agent for National Transformation 2014 by SKMM. He is actively involved with international
pasticipation, including the exchange of Malaysian teachers to Korea in 2015 at Daegu Girls
Commercial High School, facilitator for STELR STEM Bandung Workshop, Indonesia, best practices
for the SSAEM 2016 Seminar in Seoul and NASA’s international space programme in collaboration
with US Space and Rocket Center, United States. In September 2018, he was awarded Malaysia’s
Best Science Teacher by SEAMEO for the Ki Hajar Dewantara Award 2018 in Bali, Indonesia.

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