Art & Technology

Yr 11 Product Design

The Year 11 Product Design class are in the full swing of making their final outcomes. Students are working on a range of group products in the workshop and the textiles studio. Students identified a problem, opportunity or need from the 17 sustainability goals and designed solutions as part of a team. 

Year 9 & 10 Robotics and Integrated Systems Production Work

This week our Year 9 & 10 Robotics and Integrated Systems classes started on their production work for their electronics projects. Our Robotics students have been researching, designing, and planning Robotic Arms, based on industry uses, and started this week with laying out their base boards with their controllers and Arduinos, with some groups starting to assemble the different segments for their arms. The Integrated Systems Engineering class has been working towards building model electric vehicles, with students designing futuristic cars, bikes, and buses! Students started this week with assembling their electronics, carefully managing all of the different components they need. We can't wait to see all of our students' creations come together over the next few weeks!

Textiles - Young Designers

Hi, my name is Hannah, and I created the hoodie you see in the attached photo. To make the vinyl cut-out, I first designed it in a digital art workspace. I then transferred the design to a program called Silhouette Studio. From there, we connected to the vinyl cutter and did some test runs before using the blue vinyl to bring the design to life. After removing the excess vinyl, we placed the finished product onto the back of the hoodie. Using a heat press, we attached the vinyl to the fabric, and once it cooled, we peeled off the sticky backing. The result is what you see in the image. ~ Hannah Haines 10B

VCE Systems Engineering

Our Year 11 & 12 Systems Engineering classes have been hard at work on their production projects over the last few weeks. The Unit 1 students have been designing and building their mechanical systems which will help people affected by natural disasters. We have prototypes coming along for portable pulley systems, combination ploughs and cranes for clearing debris from roads, and even an amphibious vehicle to support flooded areas! 

Meanwhile, our Unit 3 students are working on their individual SAT projects, building everything from hazardous waste transports and mobile rescue vehicles to Lego sorters and portable guitar metronomes! Students have been exploring and working with a range of materials and technologies as part of their production processes, including heat-forming acrylic, 3D printing, laser cutting, and vacuum forming. We can't wait to see some of their work on display at our Art & Tech Showcase in Term 4 - keep your eyes peeled for more updates throughout the year!

Hydrogen Grand Prix

This year, students from our Year 11 and 12 Systems Engineering classes have had the opportunity to participate in the Horizon Education Hydrogen Grand Prix competition. For this event, students have had to design and build a remote-control car that runs on Hydrogen fuel cells. We have had two excursions to KIOSC to learn about how Hydrogen works as a fuel source, and to meet with the other teams and race organiser to ask questions, and develop a logo and memorabilia for our school team. 

Over the next few weeks, the team is going to be working hard to finalise and build the body of their car, as well as getting in lots of practice driving it - on race day they'll need to compete for four hours against 17 other teams from across Victoria, so we've got to make sure we've got our strategy and stamina figured out! The final race is on July 23rd, at the Toyota Centre of Excellence in Altona - it promises to be an excellent event, and students are getting very excited! Stay tuned and keep your fingers crossed for updates - if we can score a win, the team goes on to the World Finals in California in September!

Vicky Rumble & Claire Baillie

Leaders of Art & Technology

Food Studies Excursion to FareShare

On Wed 29 May, the Year 12 Food Studies students were lucky enough to travel to the FareShare kitchen in Abbotsford Melbourne to prepare and produce a range of meals for those Melbournians who are doing it tough. Fifteen students volunteered for FareShare on the day, learning all about the important impact FareShare is having on the community and supporting those in need. 

FareShare is an organisation that produces meals for those who are in need, using only donated food that would otherwise be turned into land fill. Every year, each of us will waste over 200kg of food and FareShare is able to turn what would be waste into 25,000 meals every single week. 

This opportunity is a part of the FareShare Schools in the Kitchen program, where students are able to cook thousands of meals during their session in the kitchen, whilst they also learn valuable lessons about the reality of hunger in the community, as well as issues around food waste, rescue and global food security.

The time spent at FareShare was incredibly beneficial for the students and they found it to be a very rewarding day. Ben found the day to be "an incredibly rewarding experience and really nice to work alongside other volunteers". Bree couldn’t believe the amount of food that was wasted every year and how much food was donated by companies and businesses to help support and keep FareShare running.

Hannah Blackmore

Art & Technology