How To Win A $1M Prize And Fixing The Global Education Crisis | Adam Huh Dam of Stick ‘Em - EP682
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Why do AI tools in schools often worsen learning outcomes?
Many of the current ways in which AI is being used in schools, whether the teachers know it or not, is proving to be disastrous for the educational outcomes of the students. Increase in screen time and increase in use of gadgets in schools has not improved but made educational outcomes worse for the students over time. For the first time in the global history, we see students' academic outcomes decreasing. You also won this million dollar prize. winning it. Our mindset going into the competition was essentially set on taking away and learning as much as possible, knowing that we're not gonna win. We have nothing to lose. If I can build their prototypes, maybe I can start my own company too. How do we strategize ourselves to scale into different countries and rapidly expand into many different schools within a country?
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How did Adam’s early robotics projects spark his STEAM journey?
Every week, we debate startup news, interview change makers, answer listener questions, and share personal insights. Join our movement of over 40,000 members and get transcripts, resources, and community at www.bravesea.com. Come on. Stay well and stay brave. Hey Adam, I'm really excited to have you on the show.
Hello. Nice to meet you.
Yeah, so you're the co founder of this education tech company, Stick'em, and really got a chance to interview your co founder about winning a million dollar prize. Congratulations on that and bringing that with him. And I thought this was a great opportunity to hear your angle on it, but also because you have a different journey as well. Could you introduce yourself real quick?
Hi, I'm Adam, co-founder of STICEM. So at STICOM, we are bringing quality STEAM education to every child because right now there are nearly a billion children who are growing up without access to STEAM education. And the things that you learn through STEAM education, maybe t a decade ago, would have been a luxury for students to have.
What impact did being rejected from the primary school robotics club have on Adam?
But now, in this day and age, it's becoming an absolute necessity. So we see a lot of public governments implementing and trying to implement STEAM education across all their public. schools but they are facing major hurdles trying to do it. So we're trying to Bridge tank
it. What got you started in robotics and education tech? What's your story?
So I built my first Mars Rover as like a robotics kit. I can send you some pictures afterwards. Yeah. When I was six years old back in Korea. Yeah. And that's what really got me into tinkering and building because I was trying to fiddle with all the red, blue, black and the yellow wires, trying to understand what these are supposed to do, trying to s understand how a solar panel works. Yeah. And plugging into like LEDs and all that stuff. And when I migrated over to Singapore when I was seven, I tried to join the robotics club in my Primary school. Yeah. And they had a selection test to join the robotics club. Oh wow. Yeah. So back then I was in like chess club, I was in Badminton, and I there was no selection test.
So I thought, why is there a selection test? Yeah. And n only many years down the line I understood why. And that was because robotics kits were firstly very expensive. Each of those kits costing about six, seven hundred dollars then. Yeah. Yeah. And there were not enough teachers who can just teach coding and robotics in They had to hire like external trainers to come down to teach. So they had limited seats. For my batch, uh about a hundred students signed up for the test and they only had seats for about five to ten students. And I went for the test and I didn't make it.
Oh no.
Yeah. That was pretty unfortunate. It hit me pretty hard as a seven-year-old kid. And when I went back home, I told my mom about it. And my mom being the loving mom that she is, she walked with me to the school the very next day, walked with me to the principal's room, and she talked to the principal for one and a half hours and somehow convinced her to let me into the robotics club.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why do AI tools in schools often worsen learning outcomes?
0:00–1:06
2
How did Adam’s early robotics projects spark his STEAM journey?
1:06–2:06
3
What impact did being rejected from the primary school robotics club have on Adam?
2:06–3:47
4
How did Adam and Kai turn a student hobby into a $1M‑winning startup?
3:47–6:19
5
What strategies are they using to scale STEAM education across Southeast Asia?
6:19–8:26
6
Why do mentors say authenticity mattered more than perfection in the competition?
8:26–14:37
7
How can AI be used to personalize learning without encouraging cheating?
14:37–20:44
8
What does Adam see as the future role of humans in an AI‑driven job market?
20:44–34:18
Speakers
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