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

Year 7 DigiTech

Students in 7 Red and 7 Silver have been developing their skills over the semester in flowcharting, binary code and programming. So many skills have been gained or extended during this semester.

Year 8 Robotics

Students in 8 Red and 8 Silver have spent some time in small groups with a robot. They have learnt how the robot is constructed and how to program it to make it perform in a specific way.

Year 9 Multimedia

In the multimedia elective at year 9, one of the projects involved making an animation to a piece of music. The three examples are exemplars of our student’s work – by Alice, Alisa and Stella.

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VCE/VET Creative and Digital Media

Top Designs

The VCE/VET Creative and Digital Media class visited the Top Designs exhibition at Melbourne Museum recently to view excellent examples of student work from 2021.

The girls took advantage of the opportunity to view the developmental folios alongside finished works and be inspired by what they could achieve in their final year at secondary school. These works are considered to be product of some of Victoria’s best young designers.

Some of the feedback from students included:

I really enjoyed the Top Designs exhibition! There was such a wide variety of works, and everything was so different which made it so engaging! My favourite part of this excursion was just being able to see what the VET course can lead to and all the skills you learn, it was very inspiring – Audrey Callanan

Today's excursion was delightful, I really enjoyed the different students’ work throughout the gallery

– Mary Bol

What I got out of the Top Designs excursion was an idea on what level my work needs to be to get high marks and how I can most effectively present my work in my visual diary to be visually appealing

– Mia Vincini

AMI Tech Girls

A number of students have been involved in the Grok Learning programming challenges: NCSS Challenge and web:comp. Congratulations go to the following students for participating: Jasmine Aurelia, Marley Katakam and Jessica Monteagle (NCSS Challenge).

A special congratulations to Hava Marcelin-Moura, Trish Nguyen (NCSS Challenge) and Alice Portz (web:comp) who all gained High Distinctions in their categories.

To come in Semester 2

SYN-FM – excursion to Student Youth Network radio station situated at RMIT to learn Radio Basics (VCE/VET CDM).
BIG Day in IT – Building opportunities for successful students (IT students)
Go Girl 2022 – One day technology conference for girls (IT students)
BEBRAS computational Thinking Challenge – Second round (IT students)
AMI Tech Girls – meeting fortnightly in Whyte 3.1 (All welcome)
NCSS Challenge Term 3 (All welcome)

The Challenge is a programming competition open to all school students and teachers, and it's unlike any other programming competition. We’ll teach you how to program as we go along, rather than expecting you to be an expert already. If you’re a seasoned coder, we have something for you too – the problems range from relatively simple to mind-bendingly hard.

Starting in July and running for about 5 weeks, we will release notes and problems containing the information you will need to complete the week's programming challenges.

The Grok team

Students Australia-wide compete in this programming challenge. It is an opportunity for students to learn how to write programming code – even if they have never tried before. The challenge has four streams from Newbie, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Each week, students will be given 10 programming challenges which they complete online. There are also online tutors and forums for students to discuss programming problems and get assistance. The challenge is run by the National Computer Science School in Sydney and is supported by many sponsors including Freelancer, WiseTech GLOBAL, Altassian, CSIRO, CBA, Optiver, ASD, NAB and Macquarie Bank – to name a few.

For more information, please check out the Grok Learning Challenge to find out about the Feb challenge run earlier this year. Interested students will need to email Ms Jones

I am very keen for students to join the AMI Tech Girls who will meet regularly on Tuesdays at lunchtime to look at the challenges for the week ahead and get the programming bug!!!

Ms Betty Lin Information Technology teacher

Ms Kate Jones Information Technology Learning Leader