Sekolah Menengah Teknik Alor Setar, or ''Alor Setar Technical School'' (ASTECH), is located in Bandar Simpang Kuala,

Alor Setar Alor Setar ( Jawi: الور ستار, Kedahan: ''Loqstaq'') is the state capital of Kedah, Malaysia. It is the second-largest city in the state after Sungai Petani and one of the most-important cities on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia ...

, Kedah and may be the oldest technical school in

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. ASTECH is better known by local people as "Sekolah Teknik Lebuhraya", often confused with Sekolah Menengah Teknik Jalan Stadium (now known as Kolej Vokasional Alor Setar). In front of the school is the famous

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History

The establishment of ASTECH can be traced to 1972. It was located in KM 2, Lebuhraya Sultan Abdul Halim,

near Simpang Kuala. The original site of this school was a paddy field. This school was created when the government started technical education in the state of Kedah. Before it was moved to its own building, students of ASTECH were located in nearby

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. Finally in 1972, this school was moved to its own building where it has remained. Other institutions located near to this school are

, Maktab Mahmud and SRA Darul Aman. ASTECH also was chosen by the Technical Education Department as a controlled technical school (Gred A). In 2009, ASTECH was declared as

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by the

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due to advancement in both academic and extra-curricular field of

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and Robotic. Starting in 2011, student uniforms changed from normal to special orange uniforms that is also worn by the students of Technical and Vocational Schools throughout

Principals

Courses

There are five main courses:

Subjects

Houses

ASTECH has four houses, each named after Physics's Prefixes. There are:

Achievements and rankings

Notable alumni

1. Kapten Izham Ismail, CEO Malaysia Airlines Bhd 2. Yusrizal Yusof, Book Writer 3. Maszlan Ismail, Former Director, Malaysian Space Agency

External links

References

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