School Highlights (cont'd)
Good luck to our Year 12s!
It was a very special day on 17 October, as Year 12 parents, guardians and staff gathered to acknowledge the enormous amount of hard work our 2023 cohort have put into their final year of study at Kilvington before the exam period in the weeks ahead.
We are immensely proud of each and every student and wish them all the best on their study break.
YEAR 12 CELEBRATION
Our Year 12s celebrated their final days of in-school study before hitting the books for the upcoming exams period.
We saw our senior year reflect on the friendships and joyful memories they made during their time at Kilvington with their final assembly full of laughs and banter.
Speculative Design Excursion
Joanne Low, Art, Digital Technologies, Media and Visual Communication and Design Teacher
We recently had 10 Design and Media students from Year 10 selected to be part of a design research project at Melbourne University.
Students collaborated with design education researchers to reflect and brainstorm new ways to teach design and to contemplate the future of education. They also had the chance to workshop with design researchers Dr Kate Coleman and Dr Sarah Healy.
Students had to utilise critical and creative thinking as they designed prototypes and artefacts for possible design futures. Here's a reflection from one of the students on his experience.
Elijah Slavinskis, Year 10
On 4 and 5 October, students from Year 10 Media and VCD went on a two-day intensive excursion to Melbourne Graduate University, where we participated in the ‘Hackathon of the Anthropocene’.
We helped co-design a new learning curriculum as part of a global research project. It was based around speculative design, which entailed thinking about how things might be in the far or near future. Our main task was to create a product prototype that could be used to affect the future of learning.
I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and the free food! I really loved how they encouraged us to employ different forms of thinking and ways to express your ideas, such as through a ‘tanglegram’. Overall, it was a very worthwhile few days.
Girls in STEM celebration event
Louise Macfarlane, Academic Dean of Science
As part of the Girls in STEM Bionics Celebration Event, Principal Rob French presented Alessia Di Felice, Alycia Liew, Calista Yap and Claire Yu with their certificates on 13 October on stage at the NAB Arena at Docklands.
The Bionics Institute's Girls in STEM program pairs students with senior women in STEM to work with them for five months to research and become knowledgeable in an area of science. We had four talented Year 10 students from Kilvington join this program earlier in the year.
Alessia Di Felice and Claire Yu were paired with Dr Caoileann Murphy from ACU. They met online each month to investigate Sarcopenia, a muscle disease characterised by the involuntary loss of muscle mass, strength and function.
Alycia Liew and Calista Yap were paired with Professor Orly Lacham-Kaplanc, also from ACU, and met with her online each month to investigate skeletal muscle cancer cross talk.
The students attended the Bionics Institute to meet with their mentors, attend lectures on cutting-edge research, visit research facilities, and meet with researchers who explained their equipment and experiments.
At the culmination of the program, the students presented their findings to the Unit 1/2 VCE Biology class with their mentors joining via Zoom.
The students also had a celebration event, where attendees heard from Julie Rynski, Business Banking Executive for NAB, and Professor Moira O'Bryan, Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne. They shared valuable insights and advice with the girls, encouraging them to seek mentors, embrace stepping out of their comfort zones, and celebrate their achievements.
You can view our students in a Bionics Institute Youtube video.