Science Week this year saw our students on the secondary campus engineering towers out of paper and straws during lunchtimes. It was a task that challenged their skills in creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication, as they strived to solve the problem of building maximum height combined with maximum strength.
Science isn’t easily confined to a single week, though, just as students intrigued by science are hardly confined by their career choices. In fact, in today’s increasingly technical society, a career in science offers rapidly increasing opportunities. From medicine to the police force and the football field, from the lab to remote northern Australia and all the way across the galaxy – the scope of science is now much broader than you can imagine.
All the way across this term, students at the College have participated in a range of science and STEM-based activities promoting scientific enquiry, from exploring careers in forensics and metallurgy to the recent Science Alive incursion and displays on the Primary campus.
Inside our science labs and classrooms, teachers have also provided many opportunities for hands-on science. Students this term have been examining plant cells through microscopes, dissecting lab rats and exploring the properties of dry ice. Year 8 classes have ventured out to the local biodiversity centre and wetlands as well.
We also recently sent two Year 5/6 teams to Curtin University for a robotics competition, and then two Year 9 teams to Scitech for a bridge building competition. One of our classes even found an unidentified bacteria during their microscope work, which they have sent off for further study.
“Science Week enables the school and wider community to highlight the fascinating world of science and science careers”, says Head of Science, Mr Mel De Francesco. “This is an important endeavour that we continue throughout the school year”.
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