STEAM

Year 8 STEAM students are currently working on their Emergency Housing Showcase as Project Managers and Sustainability Officers, Engineers and Architects. The Showcase will be a culmination of students collaborative efforts to meet the brief:

Students are to research and design their own, accessible, self-sufficient, off-grid emergency house to be used in response to a natural disaster.

Students received expert industry knowledge from professionals Mrs Gioia Gianniotis from GPG Architecture and Mr Tony Balding, Managing Director of Build Pro. Students have used their advice to assist with the production of their own companies, branding, prototype and Google Sketchup design of their emergency houses. They will then pitch their solutions to an audience that will include parents, Mater Dei Catholic College Year 9 students, Stage 3 St Michael’s Primary School Coolamon and Year 5 and 6 Mater Dei Primary school students. 

Formative Assessment

STEAM is a simulation of the “real world”. Students are formatively assessed and receive consistent feedback on their progress and development of their ability to communicate effectively, collaborate with others and problem solve throughout the challenges they are presented with.

Robocup Junior Australia - Spike Prime Challenge

Students from a range of year groups, including the Year 9 iSTEM class, are competing in the Robocup Australia Spike Prime Robotics Challenge. Students are creating a possible futuristic robotic creature that meets a set criteria. 

We wish our five teams the best of luck in this competition!

Team 1 - Ashley Thomas, Ainslie Campbell, Nikita Bailey, Meg Broadhead

Team 2 - Ronejan Kassem, Wil Atkinson, Julian Miles, William Wendt

Team 3 - Leo McGarry, Nathan Shaw, Patrick Blackburn

Term 4 - Samuel Thomsen, Adarsh Raj, Austin Vijayakumar

Team 5 - Cameron Huckle, Ben Devries, Toby Kohlhagen, Bailey Helyar

Da Vinci Decathlon

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the world’s greatest thinkers and scholars. da Vinci demonstrated an ability to perceive the interconnected nature of knowledge and embraced learning with a lifelong passion and determination to uncover the unknown. The Decathlon competition places a particular emphasis on higher order thinking skills, problem solving and creativity. Students will compete in teams of eight students across 10 disciplines, engineering, mathematics and chess, code breaking, art and poetry, science, English, ideation, creative producers, cartography and legacy. 

We wish our two competing teams the best of luck for next Thursday!

Year 7 Team: David Guirguis, Ella Howard, Kirsten Bastion, Roseangela Zavaglia, Harvey McLachlan, Olivia Blackney, Nathaniel Gorostiaga, Alexander McDonald

Year 8 Team: Sienna Heffernan, Sam Thomsen, Laura Sobolewski, Ashley Thomas, Tyler Nulty, Thomas Grainger, Stephanie Shaw, Hayden Kennedy

Mrs Courtney Freebody | Acting Leader of Curriculum