Digital Technolgies
The past few weeks have been busy for STEM at Kilbreda.
On Saturday 11 May we had two teams of Year 10 students attend Monash University’s Women in Stem Entrepreneurship program. Our students worked with female students and leaders from Monash University to develop and present a programmable project - let’s hope they make it to the next round! Well done, girls, we are proud of your achievement.
Monash WISE program
Recently we went to a program run by Monash University about women in entrepreneurship and STEM. We heard from speakers on how to pitch an idea and worked the entire day to create a device which can solve a problem. To make the device we used an open source hardware called a Micro-bit. Once we created our device we had to pitch our idea and sell the product. Overall, it was a really empowering and beneficial day. We learnt a lot about not only STEM, but pitching and persuading an audience. It was amazing to be surrounded by a group of women who had the same interest and passion towards technology. We also got to eat donuts, so that was pretty great!
Skye Zhu-Maguire
Year 10
The Monash WISE program was a great experience. It gave us the chance to learn about being an entrepreneur and how to develop and present a pitch. We are hoping both of our Kilbreda teams make it into the second round and eventually win the trip to America! We had fun creating and building on our Micro-bit project, Petnet. We wish our opponents the best of luck in attempting to beat us! GO KILBREDA!
Celina Gledhill and Isabelle Tricker
Year 10
Techbots
Techbots is thriving on Friday lunchtimes. We have students from Year 7 - 10 in attendance with occasional guest appearances from our VCE students! Techbots work on a range of projects from programming, gaming, animations, Photoshop, GreenScreening, 3D printing and electronics. We are always happy to see new members, especially from Year 7 - contact Ms Donoghue for more details!
Year 8 Engineering Workshops at Monash University
Calling all Year 8 students! Are you interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths? Are you looking for something fun to do these winter holidays? Would you like to participate in a 3 day workshop at Monash University?
If the answer is yes, read on...
Monash University are running a 3 day engineering workshop covering exciting topics such as robotics, electric gadgets, game design, renewable energy, building bridges and more. More details about dates and workshops can be found at this link:
www.monash.edu/engineering/challenge
We are hoping to subsidise payment for two Year 8 Kilbreda students to attend these workshops. If you are keen to find out more, please contact either
MsDonoghue adrienne.donoghue@kilbreda.vic.edu.au or
Ms Devlin jacinta.devlin@kilbreda.vic.edu.au
for an application form before Friday 31 May.
Adrienne Donoghue
Learning Leader: Digital Technologies