STEAM holiday programs
MGSC students have the opportunity to attend NASA Space Camps organised for The Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia through Actura (Actura.com.au). Actura is running STEAM themed holiday programs based on space and robots, with special offers for MGSC families.
Space Academy Mars Exploration
This applied STEM course supports learning outcomes aligned with the Australian Curriculum.
Actura’s applied STEM program makes theory accessible and relatable to young students. This helps to solidify foundation skills, leading to greater self-confidence and interest in STEM learning. Through the excitement of real space scenarios and fun activities this September, Mars Exploration will ignite your child’s interest and enthusiasm for STEM while nurturing their curiosity and imagination.
- Learn about Mars, spaceflight and the Mars 2020 Mission
- Design your own Mars exploratory mission
- Apply STEM and 21st Century skills to solve real space challenges
- Opportunity to meet NASA experts in live webinars
- Live coaching by CASE certified course leaders Learn More
CASE Space Academy is a comprehensive online space learning program specifically for middle-school students and exclusively supported by NASA experts.
Special introductory offer for Mars Exploration!
28 September – 2 October 2020
MGSC families and friends can receive $50 off the usual course price.
Register your child and use the promotional code at the check-out.
Promotional code: CSAMENVIC
FlipRobot Academy
Robotic learning is rich with multidisciplinary principles and is a hands-on way of developing students’ critical STEM skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, computational thinking, design thinking, collaboration, communication, and most importantly curiosity and imagination. Honing these skills is essential for students to prepare themselves for success in the future.
FlipRobot Academy offers highly engaging and inspiring STEM focused programs designed to open your child’s mind to the exciting opportunities and possibilities that STEM has to offer. Key features of the program include:
- Comprehensive and exciting courses in which students will learning about hardware assembly and coding which they will use to solve real-world challenges with robotics.
- Effective and unique course delivery with students guided in real-time by qualified course leaders as they learn about robotic assembly, engineering and coding at home.
- Personal Development Integration empowers students to develop design and computational thinking as well as introducing them to the Growth Mindset and 7 Survival Skills concepts.
If you would like to learn more and sign up, please visit the FlipRobot Academy website: www.fliprobotacademy.com