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USA Space Camp 2020

Doncaster Secondary College will be returning to Space Camp in 2020! It is a great opportunity for students who are interested in space, piloting, computers and engineering or just wondering how an astronaut is trained. The two-week camp will occur at the end of Term 3 2020 and is available for any students who will be in Year 9, 10 and 11 in 2020.

Students will have the opportunity to attend the Advanced Space Academy for a week participating in a rigorous program developing leadership and teamwork skills while getting a chance to experience low gravity simulators and astronaut training equipment. Students will be taken to San Francisco for 3 nights to explore the city and many sights around Silicon Valley. Students will also be taken to Orlando for 4 nights where they will visit the Kennedy Space Centre and see the history of US space travel and where they will have lunch with an astronaut! They will also have the chance to experience a wind tunnel at iFly, complete an airboat adventure of the Everglades and visit Universal Studios.

There will be an Information Night running on Wednesday, 28 August at school for all those interested.

If you are interested in attending the camp, please come to see Miss Luu in the A block staffroom for a form and for more information.

Mary Luu

Maths and Psychology Teacher

Curriculum Day Teachers Lunch

As a lovely tradition started 3 years ago, the Parents from School Council and The Wellbeing Committee thought it would be a lovely gesture to show our gratitude towards the hard-working teaching staff of DSC. Parents from all parts of the globe are asked to provide a plate or dish that they love to cook for our teachers as part of our Curriculum Day Teachers lunch. (and students if they have a little Master Chef in them!)

Lunch will be held on Thursday, August at 12.45pm in the Staff Room.

Parents can drop off a plate or dish of something yummy for our teachers and staff.  It is best to serve your dish on a disposable plate, however, as long as your dishes or containers are marked clearly with your child’s name and class it will be returned to you clean!  You can deliver your dish to the office any time during the morning or bring it to the school after 12.00pm and stay to mingle with the teachers!

Please email your preferred dish of choice and whether you would like to attend the lunch to Sofia Georgiou via email at georgiou.sofia.s@edumail.vic.gov.au or drop the form linked below into the front office. Many thanks and we look forward to spoiling our lovely staff!

Sofia Georgiou

President College Council

Trivia Night

2019 DSC Arts Exhibition

Plagiarism 

Plagiarism is when you copy someone's work and try to pass it off as your own. Plagiarism can be a violation of copyright laws and can be considered cheating, resulting in you getting a lower grade and negative consequences.

Plagiarism does not have to be word-for-word plagiarism either. If you copy someone's ideas, paraphrase or simply change the words of existing text, you must provide proper attribution for the source of the ideas. You may often copy and paste from the internet and put it in your assignments or essays. This is plagiarism if the website’s name is not included and quotes are not used around the information

Plagiarism examples

• A student is expected to write a book report about a book that his teacher has assigned. The student doesn't want to read the book and is bored with the subject. He visits websites that provide reviews and book reports and he copies from each of the different book reports to create one report of his own.
• A student is expected to write an assignment for history class. The student had a friend who took a similar class five years ago. The student asks his older friend for a copy of his paper and then takes the paper and passes it off as his own, turning it into the teacher with his name on it.
• A student takes a large block of text from a book and quotes it in his paper word-for-word. The student puts a footnote into the paper indicating where the text came from; but, the student does not give any indication in the text that he or she is quoting directly from the paper.

Sue Hayward

Curriculum Resource Manager