STEM

Build a Shelter Challenge

Our Year 7 STEM superstars have worked hard this term to develop their collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving skills through our Build a Shelter Challenge. Teams first empathised with their end users, who were a fictional family in a flooded town who required shelter from the heavy rain, significant floods and severe summer sun. We then launched into brainstorms and designs, making sure to consider the needs of the family. 

With a plan in place each team worked on their prototype to demonstrate their ideas, and then tested each aspect using the simulated rain, flood and sun exposure – mostly with great success! Well done to all teams who worked hard on the project and tried their best to build a shelter for the family.