STEM Workshops

Year 10 and 11 ASMS students presented practical, experimental workshops to all students from reception to year 6. 

ASMS came to Marion to give the students an experience to see how cool science really is. When it was my class’s turn, the ASMS students were very welcoming and had some different activities set up. All the different things they told us were very cool. The ASMS students also told us how their schoolwork is and how it is different to other schools. They also told us about how they all loved the transition to ASMS and how having a new experience of school was cool. The experiments we did were:

1. Seeing how germs work
2. Looking at different cells with playdough 
3. Seeing how a balloon can get blown up by white vinegar and bicarb soda

Overall, the experience was super fun and cool, and these types of things definitely don’t happen usually, so it was a great fun thing to do, and for me going to high school next year, it was fascinating to see how some school's work.

Ellie 

Nine ASMS students from year 10 and 11 came to our school to do STEM with us. The activities that we did with them were making cells with clay and playdough, making balloons blow up with carbon dioxide and being able to see germs under a UV light. At the end we all asked questions about them and their school. Overall it was a very fun experience to do STEM with them

Sophie

We had an extra Science lesson because some year 10 people had come to our school and had taught us 3 things which were: different organs of animals made of playdough, blowing up balloons without using our mouths and mixing a bottle and bicarb soda to make a chemical reaction and finally how to make germs visible to help us wash hands using a special lotion and a UV light torch. We also learnt what it is like to work at that specialised math and science school. At the end we also asked plenty of questions about the students and how they worked.

Olivia