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STEAM News

Last STEAM Segment for Term 3

As the STEAM Team prepares to head off to Space Camp on Saturday 16th September, this will be the last STEAM segment of the MGC newsletter this term. Space Campers will be assembling at 5 am, on Saturday 16th at Melbourne Airport for the 25-hour flight to NASA’s Space Camp in Huntsville Alabama, US.

 

 

Follow along during the two week trip on Twitter by following #mgcspacecamp

Integrate 2017

Last week, Mr Pretlove and students from the Year 10 Event Management class visited the Integrate 2017 conference. A three-day Audio Visual trade show which encompasses local and global brands such as Samsung, Ricoh and LG Electronics among many others. These companies highlighted their latest products in Audio Visual which allowed visits onto the show floor of the Exhibition Building to showcasing some of their latest technology such as OLED wallpapers, holographic displays or the drone volt.

 

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First Lego League: Hydrodynamics

MGC is launching two teams into this year’s First Lego League competition. Every year, teams of up to 10 students build, program and compete with a robot, while also learning about a modern problem in science and engineering and developing solutions for it. The event is split into three elements :

 

  1. Robot - Students design, build and program a Lego robot to complete a series of challenges
  2. Project - Teams study this years theme and develop solutions they've identified in society
  3. Core Values - Throughout the competition, teams are judged on their adherence to the Lego League core values of Teamwork, Cooperation and Gracious Professionalism

 

Four staff members attended the launch of the Victorian event at Glendal Primary School last Saturday to understand how the event works, gain ideas for the various phases of the event and learn strategies from other teams. This year, there are 48 teams in Victoria who will compete for the chance to go to the national finals in Sydney and then to the international finals in the US.

 

 

HYDRO DYNAMICS is the theme for this year. We will be learning all about water how we find, transport, use, or dispose of it. In the challenge, students from 80 countries will make a splash with HYDRO DYNAMICS. What might become possible when we understand what happens to our water?

Year 10 Term 3 STEAM Program

During our regular STEAM sessions during Term 3, year 10 students have been designing sustainable, self-contained islands for a family of 4 to live on. Students need to consider food, water and energy requirements in their prototype and then make a model of what they propose. We have seen some very interesting and creative designs that utilise renewable energy sources, sustainable food sources and innovative approaches to providing water.

 

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