KIOSC - Maths

On Friday the 28 July, 7H, 7F and 7I went on an excursion to KIOSC. 

On Friday the 28th of July, 7H, 7F and 7I went on an excursion to KIOSC. In one of the activities, we did VR (virtual reality) Communicating activity.   

One person had a booklet of instructions and codes while the other person was wearing a VR set. When wearing the VR set, you needed to tell the other person what you could see. 

There were symbols and codes in the booklet to help complete all activities. The booklet said things like, “If there are three blue wires, two yellow, and one white, break the 1st wire.” Once that is done, you move on to a second activity which may be symbols. If you finish all activities in the allocated time, (3-6 minutes) you win (defused).  Mackenzie Cunningham, 7H  

On Friday, 28th July, 3 year 7 classes went to Math KIOSC in Swinburne University. We got to try our hands on a bunch of activities, like, virtual reality, meeting a robot and creating our own earthquake alarm system. One of the activities we did, was programming a Sphero ball to simulate an ambulance to run through a bunch of obstacles and make it to the hospital. We had to code it on an iPad with instructions like “roll 70° at 90mph” and you could also control how long it rolled for. We had to follow a path, change colours of the Sphero ball, dodge cones and much more. My group and I really enjoyed coding and we all had a wonderful time at Math KIOSC!  Isha Mohankumar, 7H 

On Friday, some of the Year 7’s went to KIOSC. I had so much fun doing all of the activities, but my favourite was probably the VR.   We had to solve and figure out some codes and try to defuse bombs. I defused 2 bombs and so did my team, but there was a lot of teamwork involved. We had some challenges trying to defuse the bombs because you couldn’t see anything, and your team had to guide you what to do. I had so much fun trying to defuse them but thank you so much for letting us do this.   

Ebony Duke, 7H 

Erin Robinson

Mathematics