STEAM

RVR Golfing Challenge

The RVR Golfing Challenge involves students working in teams of approximately three students to design four Golfing Tournaments. Students navigate the Design Thinking process to bring their designs to fruition. They have developed their ideas through the ideation phase involving collaborative Minecraft prototypes and discussions about branding, team naming and design using Google Jamboard. Students then started role workshops to bring their ideation process to life. 

Project Managers 

Students have designed 3D printed Golf Holes using Tinkercad and started creating their Google Team Sites. Prior to lockdown, students created a light powered house as an obstacle, alongside the Engineers.

Design by Xavier Ahern

Engineers

The Engineers have created obstacles for the RVR Challenge. They started with an Adobe Illustrator ramp and then moved onto creating circuits for the light powered house. Students have constructed a prototype of an obstacle for the RVR to travel underneath.

Coding Specialists

Student Coding Specialist have been coding the Sphero RVR robot and created Golf Ball arms for the robot out of various materials. The STEAM team are looking forward to bringing the RVR Golfing challenge back to the prototyping phase when students come back to face-to-face teaching and learning. 

Lockdown Challenges

Students are currently transitioning into Lockdown Challenges which take them back to the nature of our Term 1 Makerspace unit. They are currently testing their engineering skills by creating the longest Rube Goldberg Machine. Students are videoing their work using WeVideo and uploading to Canvas for feedback and judgement for the overall Challenge winner. We look forward to seeing the final results at the end of Week 8, for now take a look at the engineering skills of Year 8 student Hannah Behan below!

STEM Academy

Congratulations to the STEAM Team for being awarded certificates for the completion of the STEM Teacher Enrichment Academy with the University of Sydney. This was such an invaluable experience and networking opportunity for staff to further develop their skills and to design a sustainable approach to STEM teaching and learning at Mater Dei Catholic College.

Mrs Courtney Freebody | Leader of Learning and Technology