SCIENCE

YEAR 10 BIOLOGY STUDENTS VISIT TO PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE

On Thursday 16 May the Year 10 Biology students went on an excursion to the Peter MacCullum Cancer Centre.  Nearly 100 students took part in the excursion where they were given presentations by some experts in the field of breast cancer as well as by some early career researchers. One early career researcher, Anthony Xuan (former McKinnon Student class of 2013), spoke to the students of his path to research.

 After the formal presentations, the students were guided around the research laboratories by phD students who explained their research and showed them some interesting components of their research such as tissue culture and zebra fish.

MONASH UNIVERSITY WISE (WOMEN IN STEM AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP) PROJECT

McKinnon will be sending two teams of students from Year 10 led by Mrs Sweeney and Ms Nicholls to the upcoming Monash University WiSE Program. This program is delivered by the faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Our two teams will be paired with a mentor from the university and compete against other teams whilst learning valuable skills in programming and IT literacy. We wish our girls all the best for the day.

Emily Nicholls

Assistant Science KLA Manager

Year 10 Student Manager