Learning by Making!
STEMies Club is a weekly afternoon activity for girls to come and enjoy the 'Makerspace' by creating, building, playing and 'making', using the tools...
Rube Goldberg Machine Creators!
TechMate evenings are for girls from Grade 4 – Grade 6 to invite a significant male in their lives to join them for an...
Technology Can Make Dreams Come True…….Silicon Valley!
I was so honoured to be on the #techgirlsmovement official ambassador tour to San Francisco with girls from St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School, and...
Let’s Talk Technology in the Classroom!
The Australian Curriculum: Technologies describes two distinct but related subjects: Design and Technologies, in which students use design thinking and technologies to generate and produce...
TechMate
There has been lots written on the amount of time fathers (and significant men) spend in their daughters’ lives and how important it is...
Students Inspired by an Innovator
A great way to be inspired by others is to meet and talk. STEMies Club students started the year with an inspirational presentation from Dr James Fielding,...
Why Making to Learn?
Making is an essential part of being human. Humans have always made and created to survive and evolve. So why has education not continued...
Holiday ‘Making’!
Now that the New Year is approaching, and the excitement of new toys is in full swing, keep the ‘creating’ and ‘making’ going both...
Robotics Competition: Hour of Code
This year we celebrated an Hour of Code (other posts from previous years can be found here and here)with an Interhouse Robotics Competition. Our...
STEM + A + S = Makerspace
STEM…..Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic subjects in schools have certainly been intensified as areas of significant importance for the future of world economy and transforming work...