SECONDARY SCHOOLS
STEM SHOWCASE
NSW DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 | HILTON SYDNEY
Floor
Plans
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NSW Depament of Education
Curriculum Advisors
SALLY BANNERMAN
STEM Leader
[email protected]
MARILYNN RAMSEY
Chief Education Officer, Secondary Education
[email protected]
VATCHÉ ANSOURIAN
Science Advisor 7-12
[email protected]
TANYA COLI
Science and Technology Advisor K-6
[email protected]
DAN RYTMEISTER
TAS Advisor 7-12
[email protected]
SIMON JOB
Relieving Mathematics Advisor 7-12
[email protected]
RUTH GLASGOW
Mathematics Advisor 7-12
[email protected]
KATHERIN CARTWRIGHT
Mathematics Advisor K-6
katherin.ca“[email protected]
NAGLA JEBEILE
Numeracy Advisor 7-12
[email protected]
YVONNE HUGHES
Numeracy Advisor K-6
[email protected]
Internet Access
and Social Media
WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS
TWITTER
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STEM WEBSITE
The NSW Depa“ment of Education STEM website contains
resources, programs and illustrations of practice to
download and view.
www.stem-nsw.com.au
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STEM Showcase
Program
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Registration and Exhibition
9:00 am – 9:10 am
Sally Bannerman, NSW DoE STEM Leader
Welcome Address
9:10 am – 9:40 am
Professor Mary O’Kane AC, NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer
Opening Keynote
9:40 am – 10:05 am
Dr Sco– Sleap, RDA Hunter
iSTEM Stage 5 Elective Course
10:05 am – 10:30 am
Dan Bowen, Microso£ Australia
Authentic Technology Innovation in STEM
10:30 am – 10:40 am
Nagla Jebeile, NSW DoE Numeracy Advisor
STEM Website and STEM Action School EOI
10:40 am – 11:10 am
MORNING TEA AND EXHIBITION
11:10 am – 11:50 am
Session 1 – Presentations
Level 3 Ballroom
Level 3
Levels 3 and 4
11:50 am – 12:30 pm
Session 2 – Presentations
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
LUNCH AND EXHIBITION
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm
Session 3 – Presentations
Level 3
Levels 3 and 4
2:10 pm – 2:50 pm
Session 4 – Presentations
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm
AFTERNOON TEA AND EXHIBITION
3:20 pm – 4:00 pm
Session 5 – Presentations
Level 3
Levels 3 and 4
4:00 pm – 4:40 pm
Session 6 – Presentations
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Session
Presentations
Time
11:10 am –
11:50 am
Session 1
11:50 am –
12:30 pm
Session 2
Room 1
Level 4
Room 2
Level 4
Campbelltown
Baulkham Hills
Pe›orming
HS
As HS
WeatherTECH
Solar MOTO
Orara HS
To Infinity and
Beyond
James
Cook Boys
Technology HS
Catapulting
into Success
Cherrybrook
Technology HS
Solaris
Potestas
Bellingen HS
Survive the
Shake
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
1:30 pm –
2:10 pm
Session 3
2:10 pm –
2:50 pm
Session 4
Session 5
4:00 pm –
4:40 pm
Session 6
Room 4
Level 4
Room 5
Level 4
Room 6
Ballroom
Level 3
What is STEM
education?
Judy Anderson
East Hills
Girls HS
STEM Action
School
Integrating
Technology into
Teaching and
Learning
Maitland
Grossmann HS
STEM Action
School
iSTEM Course,
ME Program
Murrumburrah
HS
Rockets
Sarah Redfern
HS
Eco Friendly
SRHS
Hastings
Secondary
College
STEM Action
School
STEM Academy
Riverside
Girls HS
STEM Action
School
Post Ea“h
Pioneers
Macahur
Girls HS
STEM Action
School
Robotics and
authentic
learning design
Numeracy in
STEM
Nagla Jebeile &
Simon Job
Macahur
Girls HS
STEM Action
School
Strategic
leadership
and evaluative
thinking for the
introduction
of STEM
The Canobolas
Rural
Technology HS
STEM Action
School
Clean the drink
Narara Valley
HS
STEM Action
School
For the Future
LUNCH LEVEL 3
Lightning
Ridge Central
School
STEM Rockets
Burwood Girls
HS
Ballistics
Challenge
The Ponds HS
Don’t Spill It
Ambarvale HS
Improving our
School
2:50 pm –
3:20 pm
3:20 pm –
4:00 pm
Room 3
Level 4
Tuggerah
Lakes
Secondary
College –
Tumbi Umbi
Campus
Facing the
Future
Corrimal HS
iROBOT
Bowral HS
We need
to move it,
move it!
Liverpool
Boys HS
Move Me
AFTERNOON TEA LEVEL 3
Granville Boys
HS
Make It Move
Picton HS
Mission to
Mars
Singleton HS
Rollercoasters
Coleambally
Central School
Make It Work
Project Based
Learning
Tania Safar
& Vatché
Ansourian
Dorrigo HS
Faang It!
Great Lakes
College
– Forster
Campus
Rescue Me
Normanhurst
Boys HS
Sounds of
Music
Rooty Hill HS
RHHS Institute
of Spo“
Literacy in
STEM
Prue Greene
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Keynote
Professor Mary O’Kane AC is the NSW Chief Scientist &
Engineer, a company director, and Executive Chairman of
O’Kane Associates, a Sydney-based consulting practice
specialising in government reviews and research and
innovation ma–ers.
Professor O’Kane is also Chair of the boards of the
Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, the
Space Environment Management Cooperative Research
Centre and the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies
at the University of Tasmania. She is also a director of the
New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute, Capital Markets
Cooperative Research Centre and Business Events Sydney.
PROFESSOR MARY O’KANE
NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer
Professor O’Kane was Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the
University of Adelaide from 1996-2001. She is a former Chair
of the board of the Australian Centre for Renewable Energy,
a former member of the Commonwealth’s Review of the
National Innovation System, the Australian Research Council
and the Cooperative Research Centres Commi–ee, the
board of FH Faulding & Co Ltd and the board of CSIRO. She
is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and
Engineering and an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia.
Visit
www.stem-nsw.com.au
today
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Speaker 1
Sco– completed his PhD in Engineering in 2015 through
The University of Newcastle a£er receiving a research
scholarship in 2010. He has published numerous research
papers in international journals and has presented his
work at a range of conferences both in Australia and
internationally. He has co-published papers with the
renowned academic, Laureate Professor Sco– Sloan,
2015 NSW Scientist of the Year and recent Fellow of the
Royal Society. He has worked as a casual lecturer in both
undergraduate and postgraduate studies at The University
of Newcastle, specialising in Engineering and Technological
and Applied Studies.
Sco– is known for the production of a large array of STEM
based curriculum material, including the innovative iSTEM
program and has been associated with RDA Hunter’s
ME Program since its inception. He has experience as an
educational consultant for Video Education Australia,
helping produce many commercially available engineering
and design based videos.
DR SCOTT SLEAP
ME Program Director at Regional
Development Australia Hunter
Dr Sco– Sleap is the ME Program Director at Regional
Development Australia (RDA) – Hunter. Previously he was
a Head Teacher of Industrial A“s & Teaching and Learning
at Maitland Grossmann High School and has over 20 years
experience as an educational leader.
Sco– manages a small pastoral company in the Upper
Hunter and has experience consulting with industry groups
and Government at all levels. He has a strong interest
in developing school and industry pa“nerships and the
contribution of STEM skilling to economic development.
Speaker 2
Dan Bowen is the National Product Manager Office 365
Education & National Education Pa“ner Development
Manager Office Edu. He works with a range of customers,
pa“ners, independent so£ware vendors and the sta“ up
community around the Office product set.
As a teacher of 15 years, he has a background in Learning
Development and Education technology. His focus is on
transforming teaching pedagogy using technology to
maximise learning outcomes. With a depth of experience
in the education sector, Dan has been involved in schools,
colleges, universities, corporate environments and defence.
He has experience in educational technologies, including
blended learning, the use of games in the classroom and
the transformation of pedagogy using flipped classrooms.
DAN BOWEN
Office Product Marketing Manager
for O365 Education
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Presentation
Summaries
SESSION 1
Room 1
11:10AM – 11:50AM
Baulkham Hills High School
WeatherTECH – Digital Weather Station
This project involves the use of information and data
applied to real life situations. Students learn to design and
produce a Digital Weather Station to collect, analyse and
interpret weather related data around the school.
The project integrates learning across science, technology
and mathematics curriculum areas, showing that
information and data has a real significance and impacts
us, as individuals, both directly and indirectly.
Room 2
Campbelltown Peƒorming A„s High School
project based learning. Some schools offer ‘one off’
experiences under the STEM Education umbrella while
others have embraced whole school initiatives so that all
students experience some connected learning across STEM.
In this session, pa“icipants will be encouraged to either
evaluate current STEM approaches in their schools
using the following questions, or, if they are considering
beginning a STEM education initiative, to use these
questions to begin their planning:
1. Why do we want to add STEM to our curriculum?
2. What problem are we aiming to solve?
3. Given the problem, which STEM strategy might address
this?
4. Which teachers should be involved?
5. What school structures need to change to implement
the strategy?
Solar MOTO
Solar MOTO involves the solar car project and renewable
resource project. The solar car project is based on the
technology outcomes, science forces outcomes and
mathematics statistics outcomes. The students use their
science knowledge and scientific process and maths
statistical data collection and presentation, to design and
create a solar powered toy car that can compete in a race.
The renewable resource project is based on technology
outcomes, science energy and resources outcomes
and mathematics percentages, fractions and decimals
outcomes. Students are presented with a driving question
and use their science, mathematics and technology
knowledge to identify a community target group and
design a solution to be presented to a panel in a “shark
tank” style presentation. Students use design thinking to
come up with a persuasive presentation of their solution.
Room 5
Room 3
Room 6
Orara High School
Integrating Technology into Teaching and
Learning
East Hills Girls are an Apple Distinguished Program School
and all students from Years 7 to 10 use iPads. Technology is
integrated into teaching and learning in all KLAs including
STEM based activities. As an Action School, East Hills
Girls has a dedicated ICT centre and are pa“icipating in
a myriad of STEM based activities including coding and
programming, Space Camp and pa“nerships with CSIRO,
education programs and universities. Information so£ware
and technology, engineering, graphics and electronics are
offered to allow students the oppo“unity to engage in
STEM activities.
To Infinity and Beyond
In this unit students pa“icipate in project based learning
to test hypotheses and solve problems through the
combination of science, technology, engineering and
mathematics. Students gain hands on experience working
as pa“ of a team to design, create and test prototypes
while developing their critical thinking and problem solving
skills. Additionally, students present their findings within
the school community.
Room 4
Judy Anderson, Director of the STEM
Teacher Enrichment Academy, The
University of Sydney
What is STEM education and why is it
impo„ant in the Australian school context?
East Hills Girls High School
(STEM Action School)
Maitland Grossmann High School
(STEM Action School)
iSTEM Course, ME Program
Maitland Grossmann High School has already established
a reputation as a leader in STEM education both in New
South Wales and nationally. The school is involved in a
broad range of STEM initiatives which have had a profound
effect on student achievement and significantly increased
the number of students taking up STEM based subjects in
Stage 6.
The School Developed Board Endorsed Course, iSTEM,
is unique in its cross-curricula approach which truly
integrates STEM. The course has an emphasis on project
based and inquiry based learning pedagogies.
The ME Program is a STEM focused, school and industry
pa“nership program.
STEM Education can refer to the separate subjects or as a
single integrated subject. It has been variously described
as inquiry based learning, problem based learning, or
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Presentation
Summaries
SESSION 2
Room 1
11:50AM – 12:30PM
Catapulting into Success STEM program involves the
planning and construction of a catapult to foster
engagement and achievement in stage 4 science,
mathematics, engineering and technology. This will
be accomplished through the implementation of a
self-contained unit of work with integrated authentic
assessment tasks. The outcomes are driven by the NSW
science syllabus with a focus on scientific inquiry, data
processing and analysis to identify trends as applied to the
action of unbalanced forces. The students’ work culminates
in a day of activities where the built catapults are assessed
for their effectiveness using an agreed set of criteria.
Bellingen High School
Survive the Shake
Ea“hquakes are the cause of many deaths in poor
communities around the world. Mud and bamboo
buildings are common in these areas. Strong, yet simple
dwellings need to be designed to maximise stability in
order to minimise the loss of life.
Room 3
In this unit students learn about rocket science and design
principles using mathematics and engineering problem
solving techniques. Students are challenged to produce
a rocket to outpe±orm their peers. Students individually
compile a po²olio of the information they collect to
produce a safe and effective solution to the problem of
obtaining the greatest height or flight time.
Room 5
Sarah Redfern High School
Eco Friendly
The Eco Friendly project engages students across
science, technology and mathematics. The unit of work
was delivered to the Year 8 middle school high achieving
students and explores the creation of sustainability
measures within the school environment and how it is an
essential pa“ of planning. Students engage in project
based learning to research energy creation and usage
through an audit process. They explore building designs
to develop and prototype solutions that foster quality
sustainable practices.
Room 6
Students design, produce and evaluate a multi-storey
structure that is able to withstand an ea“hquake
simulation.
Murrumburrah High School
Rockets
James Cook Boys Technology High School
Catapulting into Success
Room 2
Room 4
Hastings Secondary College
(STEM Action School)
STEM Academy
Cherrybrook Technology High School
Solaris Potestas
The Solaris Potestas project provides the oppo“unity
for students to design, make and evaluate a land based
vehicle to be powered by solar energy with the objective
of delivering water to rural and remote communities (in
model form for the project). The project uses a design
process and provides oppo“unities for students to develop
scientific and mathematical concepts during research.
Activities focused on science and mathematics have been
developed which challenge students’ understanding of the
engineering concepts in order to design and construct a
vehicle that is powered by solar energy.
Over the past two years Hastings Secondary College have
implemented numerous local STEM initiatives that have
culminated in the development of a STEM Academy. The
aim is to integrate STEM faculties to provide a new way
of delivering key concepts. The focus is on developing
challenging hands on activities, as well as providing
mentoring and suppo“ from expe“s in the engineering
field from local industry and government agencies.
Students will work on the following modules in 2016:
bridge design, solar challenges, aeronautical applications,
robotic design and coding.
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Presentation
Summaries
SESSION 3
Room 1
1:30PM – 2:10PM
STEM Rockets is a Stage 4 integrated STEM unit which is
centred around outcomes in the technology mandatory
7-8 syllabus, and integrates working scientifically and
working mathematically skills. Students engage in safety,
design and assembly aspects and complete a folio of work
which is assessed. Students complete their project using
the scientific method, incorporating their understanding
of forces and gravity. In mathematics, students measure,
calculate and apply volumes, time, angles, rates and ratios.
The project is centred around students building a transpo“
vehicle to carry liquid chemical waste a distance of 5
metres. The vehicle must not rely on fossil fuels as a power
source and must meet strict budget constraints.
The project integrates outcomes from science,
mathematics and technology and engages students in
working scientifically and working mathematically skills.
Room 5
Riverside Girls High School
(STEM Action School)
Post Ea„h Pioneers
The Ponds High School
Don’t Spill It
Students design, make and evaluate an automated system
to safely and efficiently transpo“ ‘chemicals and fragile
freight’ from one location to another
The project ties together outcomes from technology,
science and mathematics and incorporates working
scientifically and working mathematically skills.
Room 3
Bowral High School
We need to move it, move it!
Lightning Ridge Central School
STEM Rockets
Room 2
Room 4
NASA has announced that they will a–empt to establish a
colony on Mars in the 2030s. Today’s students will witness
this and some could be involved in the development of
this or subsequent colonies. This unit challenges students
to develop an understanding of the needs of life on Ea“h
and then apply problem solving skills to develop solutions
for living in other places in the Solar System.
Room 6
Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College
Tumbi Umbi Campus
Facing the Future
Facing the Future is a unit of work which challenges
students to collaborate in the creation of an innovative
and sustainable built environment. The project provides
students the oppo“unity to design a built environment
that utilises sustainable materials and can harvest
alternative forms of energy and water. Students make a
scale model of their designs and present a po²olio. The
project integrates outcomes from science, mathematics
and technology.
Maca„hur Girls High School
(STEM Action School)
Robotics and authentic learning design
The Maca“hur Girls High School Stage 4 STEM program
is a timetabled class which introduces the innovative
capacities of robotics. This program requires students to
identify an aged care or disability issue and then design
and build a robot to improve quality of life.
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Presentation
Summaries
SESSION 4
Room 1
2:10PM – 2:50PM
Ballistics is the science or a“ of designing and accelerating
projectiles so as to achieve a desired pe±ormance. The
Ballistics Challenge invites Year 7 students to work in teams
to design, construct and test a device which can accurately
deliver a projectile to a target. Teams will compete for
the oppo“unity to represent their class in an interclass
celebration held at the end of the project.
Ambarvale High School
Improving our School
Improving our School utilises an interdisciplinary model
and design thinking pedagogy. Through this project all
Year 8 students engaged in an evaluation of an aspect of
the physical or learning environment at Ambarvale HS.
The aim is to improve one or more aspects of the learning,
physical or social environment of the school. In the second
semester the model is replicated in a different se–ing
with an external client, for example a local primary school,
where students meet with stakeholders in that community
to identify another need for their STEM project. Students
focus on developing their critical and creative thinking, as
well as problem solving in line with 21st century thinking.
Room 3
Liverpool Boys High School
Move Me
Burwood Girls High School
Ballistics Challenge
Room 2
Room 4
Corrimal High School
Move Me incorporates learning outcomes from
technology, science and mathematics, as well as meeting
the cross curricular capability of sustainability. In this
unit, students design, develop and build products that
focus on developing their knowledge of fluid mediums,
environmental factors, forces, scale diagrams, speed/
velocity, mass/volume/capacity, data collection and it’s
representation, sustainable energy sources, po²olio
development and the design process. Students complete
three projects: Design and build a paper plane that can
travel a distance of 20 metres, design and build a paper
boat that can stay afloat on water holding a mass of 30g,
design and build a mode of transpo“ which can hold a
mass of 30g and travel at a minimum of one metre, using a
renewable energy source.
Room 5
Numeracy in STEM
Numeracy skills are impo“ant in driving the skills and
content of science, mathematics and technology. This
session will use the Numeracy Skills Framework and
present some strategies teachers can use in STEM to
fu“her develop students’ numeracy skills.
Room 6
iROBOT
iROBOT is a project based learning unit in which students
complete the project by designing and building a hydraulic
powered robotic arm. Students work collaboratively in
small teams. All stages of their project is documented
using the Collaboratus pla³orm. Students publish their
documentation using Google Apps or Office 365 cloud
based applications.
Nagla Jebeile (Numeracy Advisor 7-12)
and Simon Job (Relieving Mathematics
Advisor 7-12)
Maca„hur Girls High School
(STEM Action School)
Strategic leadership and evaluative thinking
for the introduction of STEM
The introduction of STEM and integrated learning
requires strategic leadership which utilises highly effective
implementation strategies. This includes targeted
professional learning, evaluative thinking processes,
curriculum pa–ern modification, funding options and
leadership capacities.
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Presentation
Summaries
SESSION 5
Room 1
3:20PM – 4:00PM
Room 4
Make It Work
Granville Boys High School
Make It Move
Students learn about forces and how forces act as well
as predict unbalanced forces in everyday situations.
They describe some everyday examples of technological
design that reduce impact on forces. They look at friction,
everyday situations where it operates, and investigate
factors that influence the size and effect of friction forces.
Students use the term ‘field’ in describing forces acting at
a distance such as gravity and how it pulls objects towards
the centre of Ea“h as well as how it acts in everyday
situations. Students also learn to contrast the terms ‘mass’
and ‘weight’.
Coleambally Central School
Students are to design and make a toy for a toy company.
The toy must utilise powered movement. The toy must be
visually appealing, safe and appropriate to an identified
age group and gender if applicable.
The project integrates outcomes from science,
mathematics and technology and engages students in
working scientifically and working mathematically skills.
Room 5
Tania Safar (HT TAS Merrylands
High School) and Vatché Ansourian
(Science Advisor 7-12)
Project Based Learning
Students apply knowledge and understandings learnt
in science and mathematics and create a vehicle in a
practical workshop. They work collaboratively to produce a
vehicle suitable to race at the end of the term.
This session will present a Project Based Learning (PBL)
framework that teachers can use and explores different
strategies to embed project based learning.
Room 2
Room 6
Picton High School
Mission to Mars, Year 7
Mission to Mars is a STEM project that replaced
mainstream science, mathematics and technology classes
utilising project based learning.
This project is based on a scenario where Ea“h has
become uninhabitable and Mars is the next viable planet.
The project was divided into 3 main sub-projects; 1.
Space Travel: Rockets, 2. Space Exploration: Mars Rover, 3.
Colonisation of Mars: Life in the Bubble.
Room 3
The Canobolas Rural Technology
High School
(STEM Action School)
Clean the drink
This unit is aligned with the Living World topic from Year
7 science. The purpose is to provide additional experience
and context working within the nominated outcomes to
enhance engagement and understanding. Addressing
of specific content occurs directly in mainstream science
lessons and assessment.
Singleton High School
Rollercoasters
Students design, produce, promote and evaluate a
rollercoaster mainly constructed from paper that allows a
ball bearing to move from sta“ to finish in the slowest time
possible. The track is of a predetermined length and must
contain mandated elements. Students design a sta“ing
gate that must be used to begin the ball’s motion from the
beginning of the rollercoaster without it being touched.
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Presentation
Summaries
SESSION 6
Room 1
4:00PM – 4:40PM
Students in Stage 4 use the concepts of science,
mathematics, engineering and technology to design a
carbon dioxide powered car. They investigate the design
process and manipulate numbers to develop a working
model.
Students pa“icipate as individuals in the design process,
building prototypes and in the pretesting stage of their
cars.
Science lessons are programmed around the concept
of friction, mass, force and aerodynamics. Students also
discuss variables and the scientific method.
Mathematics lessons focus on area, scale, shape, rates and
graphical presentation.
Technology lessons focus on design, materials and the
construction phase.
In this project the RHHS STEM team adopted a project
based assessment approach to engage the entire Year 8
coho“ in authentic, enriched and cross-curricular learning.
In this presentation, STEM team members will share their
research and experiences in planning and implementing
the project, focusing on the practical issues such as
sma“ timetabling, assessment integration, STEM culture
building and possible challenges and barriers. Students
were required to create an integrated po²olio of evidence
towards a ‘Rooty Hill Institute of Spo“ and Kinetics’. The
team will also discuss how to embed STEM education
in the curriculum of middle level education, and how to
develop, through STEM, students’ general capability in
creative and critical thinking and entrepreneurism.
Room 5
Prue Greene (English Advisor 7-12)
Literacy in STEM
Great Lakes College – Forster Campus
Rescue Me
Rescue me STEM project involves students designing and
constructing a car, powered by an electric toothbrush
motor. Students are introduced to the unit of work with
a scenario where the vehicle they construct must be
designed to convey a rescue message. The scenario allows
students to engage with 21st century skills of problem
solving and critical thinking by designing and prototyping
their vehicle to solve different problems in the scenario.
The project based learning unit of work integrates
outcomes from science, mathematics and technology and
incorporates the skills of working scientifically and working
mathematically.
Room 3
Rooty Hill High School
Athletes and Architects:
Exercise and Efficiency
Dorrigo High School
Faang It!
Room 2
Room 4
Normanhurst Boys High School
Sounds of Music
The “Sounds of Music” is an integrated project based
STEM unit that uses scientific theory, investigations and
findings, mathematical data collection, representation
and analysis to design and construct a musical instrument
in TAS. Stage 4 students will gain an enriched learning
experience across mathematics, science and TAS to test
the musical instruments with a plethora of knowledge and
understanding on variables, sound waves and the physics
and acoustics of music.
Literacy is crucial in driving the skills and content of
science, mathematics and technology. This session will
present some strategies teachers can use in STEM to
fu“her develop their students’ literacy in science and
technology subject areas.
Room 6
Narara Valley High School
(STEM Action School)
For the Future
Narara Valley High School is a large comprehensive high
school on the NSW Central Coast that prides itself on
its ability to cater for the needs of a diverse student
population. This is achieved through excellent learning
intiatives based on quality teaching and innovative STEM
teaching programs that emphasise 21st century learning.
Narara Valley High School: exhibits exemplary teaching
and learning of STEM subjects and integrated curriculum,
demonstrates implementation of flexible, effective or new
approaches to student engagement and student pathway
planning, displays high quality resources and skills, and
professional learning programs.
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Exhibitors
List
ATSE STELR PROGRAM
Pennie Stoyles
E [email protected]
T 03 9864 0905 M 0447 447 129
W www.stelr.org.au
UNSW SOLAR BOAT CHALLENGE |
KITEMAGIC
Michael Richards
E [email protected]
T 9045 1662 M 0411 357 894
W www.kitesite.com.au
CSIRO SCIENTISTS AND MATHEMATICIANS
IN SCHOOLS
UTS WOMEN IN ENGINEERING AND IT
Maya Marcus
Candice Lim
E [email protected]
E [email protected] T 9490 8405
T 9514 2602 M 0433 038 123
W www.csiro.au | www.csiro.au/SMiS
MICROSOFT
Dan Bowen
E a-dabowe@microso£.com
T 9870 2871 M 0405 400 449
W www.microso£.com/en-au/education/
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS & SCIENCES
Peter Mahony
E [email protected]
T 9217 0370 M 0401 990 066
W www.maas.museum
W www.uts.edu.au
YOUNG ICT EXPLORERS
Travis Joy
E [email protected]
T 9935 4451 M 0452 412 959
W YoungICTExplorers.net.au
HEWLETT-PACKARD
Andrea OHalloran
E [email protected] M 0404 087 357
W www.hp.com.au
RI AUS
STM
Tania Meyer
Phillip Hoang
E [email protected]
E [email protected]
T 08 7120 8612 M 0409 099 578
M 0428 763 017
W www.riaus.org.au
W stmbags.com
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LITTLE BIRD ELECTRONICS
TOURNAMENT OF MINDS
James Green
E [email protected]
M 0435 308 280
W www.littlebirdelectronics.com.au
Carol O’Donnell
E [email protected]
M 0419 207 646
W www.tom.edu.au
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALISTS
Matt Peedell
E [email protected]
T 8214 6338 M 0407 775 919
W www.edtechs.com.au
ROBOCUP
Bronwyn Moreton
E [email protected]
W www.robocupjunior.org.au
SYDNEY AUDIO VISUAL SPECIALISTS
Alex Sharma
E [email protected]
T 9757 2939
W www.sydneyavspecialists.com.au
SCORPIO TECHNOLOGY
Anita Vejins
E [email protected]
T 03 9802 9913
W www.scorpiotechnology.com.au
LEGO EDUCATION
Sandra Googan
E [email protected]
M 0408 281 236
W www.LEGOeducation.com.au
ME3D | SEED3D
Matt Connelly
E [email protected]
W www.me3d.com.au | www.seed3d.org
STEM ROADSHOW
Bob Wheway
E [email protected]
M 0497 912 574
W www.uow.edu.au
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