STEAM News

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Girls as Leaders in STEM (GALS)

For a good part of the year, Year 7 students Livinia Stokes, Anouk Myers and Shanay Jacobs have worked on an extra-curriculum challenge responding to an issue Ford raised about customer needs. They presented all their hard work (a pod system for new cars that would be specific for the customer needs) at the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre over the school holidays.

We congratulate these girls on their collaboration, creative ideas and hard work on this.

Below is an article written by the Deakin STEM academics:

Girls as Leaders in STEM (GALS) – Public Launch 27 June 2019

Deakin STEM academics, Coral Campbell, Lihua Xu and Linda Hobbs have been working with teachers and girls from the Geelong area. The girls from years 5-8 have been participating in an extra-curricular activity where they respond to an identified industry issue or need. Working in small groups, with teacher support, the girls have developed solutions using an engineering design process, and have designed communication posters and models. The girls’ project outputs were publically launched at the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre on 27th June 2019 by Libby Coker (Federal Member of Parliament for Corangamite), and Alfred Deakin Professor Christine Ure. Kim Bartlett, Chief Executive Officer of the Invergowrie Foundation (which funded the project) provided certificates of participation to the girls present. The girls’ projects were on public display across the school holidays and are now on display in their schools. 

Mrs Toone

Leader of STEAM Learning and Initiatives

Unit 2 Psychology

Students in Unit 2 Psychology have been studying perception throughout Term 3. Students have been learning about how the eye works to help us understand the world that we see.

We have done a bull’s eye dissection to find the different structures in the eye and took a trip to ArtVo to become part of the art.

We have been learning about how we use different cues from the environment to understand depth and make sense of what we are seeing.

We have also been fooled by some visual illusions.

Students have also learnt about how we interpret different tastes and factors that can affect our taste perception. We have tried different foods in class that resemble the five main tastes and tried to identify the different skittle flavours whilst blindfolded.

Mr Daniel Peacock

Psychology Teacher