TECHNOLOGY

Year 9 

Home Eco Food Preparation Skills

Jackson Massoud and Bailey Chandler, below enjoying a lamb souvlaki in Year 9 Home Economics.

Eleni Stavrou

Year 10 Textiles

Year 7 

Systems Technology

7.37 Systems students have been very busy this term designing, creating and evaluating their Rube Goldberg machines for their CAT 2 assessment. 

A Rube Goldberg machine is a contraption, invention, device or apparatus that is deliberately over-engineered or overdone to perform a very simple task in a very complicated fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883–1970). 

The students have used a range of tools and equipment to produce their desired results, with safety in the classroom workshop being our priority. 

Students were given the opportunity to work in groups or as an individual, with the core element of the task based around designing methods of how to pop a balloon. 

There have been some fantastic results and lots of screams when balloons pop unexpectedly!  I congratulate all of 7.37 on their efforts.  They are a fantastic group of students.

Mr Bechaz

Systems Engineering Teacher

In Systems Technology we had to make a Rube Goldberg based project with at least 3 of the 6 simple machines on it.   Our aim was to pop a balloon somehow.  Ours worked!

We used a lever, an inclined plane and wheel, and axle in our model.  We used dominos to push a golf ball that then goes down a ramp and hits a moving lever, which then pushed more dominos and they then hit a car with a sharp nail glued to the front. The nail then rolled down an inclined plane that popped a balloon.

We had to design, make and test all of this, but we wouldn't have been able to, without Mr Bechaz's help.  Thank you Mr Bechaz!

MacKenzie Coakley & Molly Keyhole 7.37​

Year 10

Wood Technology

Year 10 Wood Technology students, enrolled in Mr Bechaz's class this semester, have had the opportunity to plan and construct an Insert Clock. 

The clock designs were entirely student choice and they had the opportunity to use a range of tools and equipment to complete the task.  Most pieces were constructed of Radiata Pine, but some were made from other materials, such as branches and old pallets. 

The clocks that were completed, were of high quality and all students should be proud of their work.

Charlie Petchell 10.P6

Jasmine Robertson 10.M2

Technology Fees

All Technology elective subjects and all Home Economics Junior classes carry a fee to help cover the increasing cost of materials.

We ask that parents and guardians please assist the school by paying the contribution by Friday 24 June, end of Term 2.

If you are experiencing any difficulties with this request, please don’t hesitate to contact the school.

Caitlin Marshall

Assistant Head of Technology