Micro:Bit Holiday Fun!
The first two days of the holidays saw the students from St Aidan’s and local schools participate in a Jr Engineers holiday program, learning...
World Science Festival Ipswich with STEM Punks
Over the past few years, I’ve had the pleasure of taking girls to participate in STEM Punks Innovation Sports Competition at The World Science...
TeachTechPlay : Playback
I’m inspired and all set to hit Term 2 with more ideas after spending the last two days at the annual TeachTechPlay Conference at...
Precipitation Penguins
The theme for this year’s First Lego League was Hydrodynamics, which enabled our girls to learn more about our precious resource ‘water’. We started at...
Resourcing a Junior Makerspace
Throughout my blog I have spoken about materials available in our space to stimulate making in the Makerspace. Sometimes the making and creating comes from literature,...
Robots to Teach Coding – Part 1 (K – 2)
“Everyone should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think”
Steve Jobs
Learning to code really does make ‘thinking’ happen!...
Ideas for Exploring Machine Learning in the Primary Years.
Artificial Intelligence, and its subset Machine Learning, is very much part of our lives and will be even more so in the lives of...
Drones in the Primary Years.
Using drones in the primary years builds critical thinking and problem-solving skills in addition to technical skills. Drones are very much part of our...
Our First LEGO League Journey
A few months ago I approached my principal about entering a team into the First LEGO League competition, as always, she was very supportive....
Robotronica 2017
Once a year QUT hosts Robotronica a free Robotics and Technology Spectacular with demonstrations, workshops, games and discussions. Numerous engaging activities for all ages were...