SANE (Science)

Semester One

The Year 5/6 SANE students have been working on an exciting project which they will be sharing at the ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) world Congress in October. They will be showcasing their efforts to program a Lego robot to become a futuristic robot taxi. Already we have built an interchangeable modular city for the robots to navigate around. With the help of staff from Scienceworks we have also built two different prototype taxis using a variety of sensors for our robots to “read” the world around them.

In Year 7 this term we visited the Year 2s down on Early Years to run a pushing and pulling incursion where we helped the Year 2s build a toy that moved using pneumatics. We have also been experimenting flying and controlling some drones. We are starting to program them with the app Tickle. We plan to program them to fly around our model city to scan areas for people in need, for example the homeless. 

Semester Two

Semester 2 in SANE was very busy. Firstly we finalised our projects for the Intelligent Transport Projects for presentation at the ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) World Congress. We had Lego robots programmed as automated taxis and a light rail system driving around a modular city. The Year 7s shared their drone project where drones had been programmed to fly around the same city searching for people in need. We were one of only four schools lucky enough to work with Scienceworks to be able to present at this conference which is the largest non-medical industry conference in the world. Our students were fantastic ambassadors of our school and were able to share their projects with industry professionals who were all blown away by the knowledge and thinking of our students.

The Science Expo night had students from SANE busking all around the Technology building, performing demonstrations and sharing activities which they had devised and practised to share during the night.

What a fantastic year in SANE it has been!