STEAM News
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
On Tuesday 11th of February, 20 MGC students attended an event at RMIT to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The event was organised by the office of the Lead Scientist of Victoria, Dr Amanda Caples. The event was hosted by Dr Jacqueline Tate.
Our students got to listen to some amazing women scientists and engineers as they shared their pathways to their chosen careers and gave us some great advice. After a morning tea, we then participated in Scientist “speed dating” where our groups were visited by different scientists who we could ask questions of.
Two pieces of great advice were “make lots of mistakes” and “don’t try to be perfect” – lessons learned as our speakers worked towards their goals.
CLICK HERE for a news article about the event
Inspiring STEM+ Welcome Breakfast
On Monday 17th of February, MGC in collaboration with Laing O’Rourke kicked-off the Inspiring STEM+ event. The 50 Year 9 students heard about the construction industry and why Laing O’Rourke are committed to getting more female students into engineering fields. The students got to speak to the young engineers who are leading the program and ask lots of questions.
The first module for the program will be held on Tuesday 10th of March and students will be participating in a site visit to the Kooyong level crossing removal project on the 19th of March. There will be 8 modules over the next 2 years, with the company also offering access to work experience, mentors and internships once students enter VCE and tertiary levels.
STEAM Team
We have kicked off the STEAM room for 2020 with everyone building robots. We encourage all students who might be interested in coding, building, playing or computers to come along on Monday or Thursday lunchtimes to room 332.
IN 2020, our STEAM Captains are Eleanor Eyers and Rachel Chiu(VC) at the senior levels and Maya Garrett and Nandini Vyas (VC) in the middle school. These girls have lots of ideas and we are hoping to make them happen. If you want to help, please come along!
How can you get involved?
Each year we participate in lots of events and competitions – maybe one or more of these might interest you?
Robotics and Coding – we participate in Robocup, FIRST Lego League and Everybody Dance Nao competitions.
App Design and Entrepreneurship – The “I’m a tech girl superhero” app design competition is a great team event – come up with a good idea, develop it and make an app to use it.
Problem solving – The BEBRAS computational thinking challenge is a great one to test your brain
Space Camp 2020
Space Camp 2020 departs Melbourne on Tuesday 24th of March. There will be an information evening on Tuesday 25th February in the College Library at 6pm. There will be lots of information about packing tips, meeting times, camp rules and keeping in touch with family.
