Prototyping with LittleBits

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We were fortunate to visit and participate in a workshop prototyping a device supporting an age-friendly city using LittleBits at The Cube, QUT "An age-friendly...

Keeping the Makerspace Momentum Going

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This week I presented for the lovely entrepreneur, Karen Bonanno at Eduwebinars, a session on keeping the 'making' space in a library going. Momentum Makerspace...

Holiday Program: Drones, Droids and Robots

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Robots, Drones and Droids St Aidan’s last STEMies program (one day in the holidays) incorporated a session ‘playing’ and learning how to code robots, drones...

STEM + Natural fit for our Makerspace

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The Library Makerspace provides our girls with a space to come and build, explore, invent, collaborate and create. It is a place where our...

Coding in our Library MakerSpace

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We are continuing our focus on coding in our library lessons, Megan and I were pleased to see our article on 'Coding in the...

Future Schools Expo + Conference Sydney

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Last week I was fortunate to have been invited to speak at the Future Schools Expo + Conference in Sydney. It is an annual 2 day...

Coding in the Junior Library

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Computers touch our lives in so many ways, from movies to medicine, education to entertainment, gaming to government, construction to commerce. Computers and Digital...

Bye 2015, Hello 2016

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2015 was a fabulously busy and successful year for our "makerspace'. We saw many students challenging themselves to create projects, solve problems and try new...

Christmas Cardboard Arcade

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Following on from our History unit which incorporated the ideologies of the makerspace, the girls watched Caine's Arcade.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U After studying how Australia has populated since...

Hour of Code 2015

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Wow! What a great way to lead into our 'Hour of Code' with the whole Junior School. After a very successful event last year...