INNOVATION SPACES EXTEND OPPORTUNITY THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF THE CGGS PARENTS AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CREATE INNOVATION SPACES AT BOTH THE JUNIOR AND SENIOR SCHOOL CAMPUSES. These specialised spaces provide exciting opportunities for students to make use of their technology skills and creativity in delivering both curriculum based and personal projects. Some of the technology students will be exposed to includes: programming drones, exploring the use of wearable technology, viewing (and creating) 3D environments using Google’s new cardboard goggle technology and design through the use of 3D printers.
The limitations of the innovation space will be restricted only by the girls’ imagination. programmed robots to move, flash their lights and make noises. The Year 4 teachers made a stop-motion animation film about a friendly snake, while the Year 6 teachers experimented with some circuitry sets. There was plenty of peer tutoring, problem solving and ‘aha!’ moments.
“Under the forward-thinking leadership of our Junior School Curriculum Coordinator, Mrs Alex Galland, we have created a significant space where our teachers and students can collaborate, dream, plan and create. The space is the perfect space for our community to ‘disrupt the norm’ and take action as leaders and innovators.” Mr Luke Ritchie DIRECTOR OF JUNIOR SCHOOL (YEARS 3–6)
Students also have the chance to experiment with stop motion animation, robotics and programming sensor boards. The limitations of the innovation space will be restricted only by the girls’ imagination. In the Junior School, the innovation space is home to the Innovation Committee and the newly established Robotics and Coding Club. Senior School students studying Information Technology have embraced the innovation space and its facilities to work on projects which bring together emerging technologies and existing problems to create a product designed to solve the problem presented. In 2015, Year 10 Area of Interest projects ranged from 3D printed prosthetic arms to informative IOS apps. Staff at the Junior School have also taken the opportunity to engage in some play-based learning in the innovation space. Earlier this year, some of the teaching staff used the green screen and lights to film themselves in places such as Paris and Hawaii while others
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Junior School Teachers Mrs Meghan Scougall and Mrs Jan Elliott experiment with green screen technology in the Junior School innovation space.