STEM
STEM Education is an approach to learning that uses Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry and critical thinking.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Sign up for the NCSS challenge.
NCSS Challenge commences Monday February 13
During the NCSS Challenge you will:
- Get content aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies for Years 5-10
- Get intelligent automarking and instant feedback
- Learn to code as you go along (you don't need to be an expert!)
- Solve exciting real-world problems
- Compete against students from Australia and New Zealand
- Chat with online support from expert tutors
- Earn points to climb the leaderboard
The NCSS Challenge is for school students from upper primary to all levels of high school; there's a stream to match every student's ability.
Our Teaching Philosophy
We want the NCSS Challenge to be a competition for every student. That means students who've never coded as well as those with years of experience.
To make sure everyone can be included, we teach coding as we go along. Each week we release new notes and problems; the notes teach new coding concepts, and the problems challenge them!
The core of the Challenge is our problems. We put a huge amount of effort into making them relevant, real world problems that challenge at just the right level. Plus, when you're coding in the Challenge you won't just learn about coding - we'll slip in some science, language, maths, history and geography too!
The GROK Team
For more information, please check out www.groklearning.com/challenge/.
Interested students will need to email Ms Jones to have their name added to the list on Operoo.
"I am very keen for students to meet regularly at a lunchtime or after school to look at the challenges for the week ahead and get the programming bug!"
Ms Jones
Ms Kate Jones Information Technology Learning Leader