News | St Joseph's Host Budding Year 5 STEM Students

Posted 10 October 2017 by Catholic Education in News

Over 350 excited Year 5 students were hosted by St Joseph's Catholic High School last month, for a day of fun and challenging STEM activities.

Over two days, 60 St Joseph's students from year 9 and 10 volunteered to help St Joseph's staff and University of Wollongong students, to run a range of STEM activities. 

The day served a triple purpose; allowing the students to be involved in enrichment activities led by experts, having the opportunity to spend a day in a high school setting with students from other schools, while allowing the St Joseph's community to demonstrate the capacity of the school and its facilities to both students and their teachers.

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS 

  • St Paul’s Catholic Primary School, Albion Park
  • St John’s Catholic Primary School, Dapto
  • Ss Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, Kiama
  • Nazareth Catholic Primary School, Shellharbour
  • Stella Maris Catholic Primary School, Shellharbour
  • St Pius X Catholic Primary School, Unanderra
  • Tullimbar Public School, Tullimbar

STEM ACTIVITIES INCLUDED:

  • STELAR Solar House design
  • The making and testing of bottle rockets
  • 3D Printing
  • Drones
  • Timber Theory and the Building & Testing of Beams
  • Water Storage & Flow
  • Driving an Open-Wheeler Racer Driving Simulator
  • Extraction the Genome of Strawberries
  • Determining the Half-Life of a Radioactive Isotope
  • Flying Balsa Planes
  • Coding of a Mars Rover
  • Forensic candy making

 


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