Bubbling with Curiosity
PRIMARY & SECONDARY STEM
PRIMARY STEM
SECONDARY STEM On August 18th, the Year 9 girls embarked on a trip to Whittlesea Tech School for the 'Girls in STEM' event, coinciding with National Science Week 2023. Overcoming their initial nerves, the girls collaborated with students from other schools to create teams of four. The focus was on addressing a sustainable future within key areas: Energy, Waste Management, Wellbeing, and Liveability. During the event, the teams had the invaluable opportunity to design, construct models, utilise coding and micro:bits to develop prototypes, and ultimately present their ideas to professionals within the STEM industries. Regrettably, the restrictions posed by the participation of multiple schools meant that photography was not possible. However, the rich experiences and knowledge gained undoubtedly overshadowed this limitation. This event served as a platform for the Year 9 girls to explore the diverse realms of science and technology collaboratively and hands - on.
This year the Primary Campus embarked on the exciting journey of STEM learning as part of our Lifestyle classes. Students from Prep to Year 6 applied curiosity and enthusiasm to learning activities that explored the roles of Scientists, Engineers, Designers and Technicians. In Semester 1, we took on engineering challenges. From designing towers to get to the moon in Year 1 to creating a prototype of a building to survive a natural disaster. Students then developed their understanding of computational thinking. Preps took their first steps to understand the basics of coding whilst Year 3 and 4 students programmed a game in Scratch Jr. and Year 5 and 6 students learnt about binary numbers and conditional coding. Semester 2 saw students exploring continents of the world, observing features of Australian animals and using Dash robots to present their invented animal reports. We were lucky enough to trial a 3D printer and Year 5 and 6 students developed their design skills to make use of it!
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