STEAM News

STEAM Week Report

From 31 August - 4th September, the College celebrated STEAM week with a number of events . We started off launching a paper-plane competition, won by Haowen Jiang and Chakrika Polavarapu, and a STEAM week escape room. 

On Monday, our STEAM Captain Sofia Gravier held a lunchtime interview with Dr Kudzai Kanhutu, Deputy Chief Medical Information Officer, Royal Melbourne Hospital and a Superstar of STEM who shared her journey in STEM.  

On Tuesday, Emma Parfitt from the College’s Young Person’s Plan for Planet group interviewed another Superstar of STEM, Dr Ellen Moon about her work in sustainability and her journey to Antarctica as part of the Homeward Bound leadership program.

On Wednesday, students went head to head with teachers in a Kahoot quiz, which the students won for the second year running. Congratulations Students!!!

The top 12 players were:

Oakley Johansen-Figus, Ms Vine, Neha Hiremani,  Mr Patterson, Benjamin Kellam, Sophie Bayliss, Aidan Murray, Larissa Jones, James Ward, Isabel Murray, Charlotte, Amelie Parkinson-Bates

We had our annual Periodic Table of Cupcakes on Thursday, and even though the cupcakes were enjoyed remotely this year, it was still a highlight, with some very imaginative decorations for the different elements of the periodic table. 

We thank the following students for participating and creating some very impressive cupcakes:

Sophie Godbold, Makayla Hammer, Olivia McIntyre, Isabel Murray, Bonnie Osborn, Colette Osborn, William Osborn, Clare Parfitt, Emma Parfitt, Chakrika Polavarapu, Brooklyn Tsang

The week finished with a dress up day where students and staff were invited to dress up as a person in STEAM who inspires them. 

Special mention of Mrs Katrina Wellins and her students, (Emma Parfitt,  Cecilia Amorim-Robertson,  Leilani Graves-Schnittler, Jorja Daniele, Isobel Warrilow, Olivia (Liv) McIntyre) who embraced the spirit of the STEAM week and integrated  STEAM in their voice lessons as they created models of the larynx and developed spectrograms of their voices.             

Also a big thank you to Ms Vita Cottone and Ms Allison Lemar for their help in organising participation of students in the STEAM Careers workshops organised by Quatum Victoria and RMIT university.  We had a total of 84 students attending workshops on Media and Communication, Science and Physics, Building and Construction, Engineering and technology.

A massive thankyou to staff and students who participated in all the activities making it a very memorable Remote STEAM week and to Sofia Gravier and Emma Parfitt for conducting the incredibly interesting and inspiring interviews with their guests.

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