STEAM NEWS

First Lego League Competition

On Sunday 19th November two MGC teams participated in the First League Lego Regionals at Swinburne University of Technology. Heats were held in over 80 countries with 22,000 groups across the world competing for places at the grand final in San Diego, US.

 

 

Throughout the day, Team STEAM and Panics! Solved spent the day working through each skill area including Core Values (Teamwork, Inspiration, and Gracious Professionalism), Project work (Research, Innovation and the Presentation), Robot Design (Mechanical, Programming and Strategy) and finally, the Robot Race itself.

 

 

Although both teams did well and scored good overall marks, they were unsuccessful in progressing to the Sydney Regional Finals. However, the judges were impressed with the teams innovation with their projects, robots ideas and robot innovation.

As a rookie team, we learnt a lot, and we’ll be back next year!

Parents' Association and STEAM

The STEAM program at MGC could not simply function without the generous support of our Parent’s Association and in 2018, the PA has funded the following equipment:

 

Four Lego EV3s and expansion packs

Four iPads

Three Multi Chargers for the EV3s

 

 

This equipment will go towards supporting our highly regarded robotics course, events including Lego League competitions and STEAM lunchtime sessions.

Youth Entrepreneurs and STEAM Ambassadors Conference

On Friday 24th of November, our 2018 STEAM Captains Karen Wong and Charlie Goldberg, 2017 Middle School STEAM Captain Eleanor Eyres along with STEAM team members Lucy Skelton, Veronique Villis and Scarlet Gregory attended a conference at Scotch College. STEAM Leader Wendy Keen, also attended and presented at the conference.

 

The conference was for students and teachers to share ideas about promoting STEAM in schools. There were three excellent keynote speakers. We heard from a doctor using VR to minimise pain in children, a Year 11 student from WA just starting his film-making career and a 24 year old who has started her own company to send student experiments to the international space station.

 

We also attended workshops on different things that schools are doing in the STEAM area. It was all very inspirational!!

 

Useful MGC Links

Compass - https://mgc.vic.jdlf.com.au

MGC eMail - https://exchange.mgc.vic.edu.au

Moodle - http://moodle.mgc.vic.edu.au

Home Access Plus - https://hap.mgc.vic.edu.au

MGC’s Public Site - http://www.mgc.vic.edu.au

Parents’ Association - https://goo.gl/aeIBn3

Alumni Association - https://goo.gl/fjYAek