STEM

1. Year 5 students Stavroula (Voula) Hronopoulos and Georgina (Georgie) Ayres, exploring light and shadows

2. Year 5 students Sophia McKinnon and Ivana Gattino, learning to make interactive posters using Makey Makey and the coding program Scratch 3. Prep students Bella Tarrant, Zoe McComas and Bianca Ferguson, earning to write and debug algorithms using Bee-Bots 4. Year 1 students Henrietta (Henri) Switkowski, Hannah Engelbrecht and Seeren Ashmeel, investigating the difference between building towers with cooked and uncooked spaghetti 5. Year 3 students Nina Steedman and Sylvanas Zhu designing an insulated water bottle

6. Year 4 students Yifei (Sophie) Wang and Elva Zhang, creating a website on the Daintree rainforest

7. Year 2 students Jemima Grinsell, Mia Tien and Matea Bjazevic, mixing and separating different sized materials 8. Year 5 students Charlotte Morris,

Camilla Thomas and Anna Roosenburg, carrying out their design experiment 9. Year 3 students Ingrid (Ingrid He)

Tan and Amelia Wood, enjoying a STEM club ‘Lego challenge’ 10. Year 6 students Charlotte Roe, Carla Martuccio and Simone Yazbek, enjoying making a density column using food dye and sugar 11. Year 3 students Elizabeth Switkowski, Sienna Xu and Catherine (Cate) Barry, enjoying designing and building a chariot to be pulled by the robot Sphero 12. Year 4 students Aimee Davenport and Samara Grinsell, challenging themselves with coding the robot DASH into action 13. Prep students Ellie Guo, Aria Nguyen, Emily Wu, Chloe Gu, Latifa Aljneibi and Evie Mason, showing us how they measure the wind

Sis for super fun! Our Barbreck girls love the fun they experience within their STEM classroom. This year, the girls have had fun learning about why chocolate melts, how worms breathe and the reason light bends. They are learning how to write algorithms, make a web page or stop motion film, and learning how to model the size of the solar system, clean up an oil spill and build chariots for the robot Sphero. T is for terrific students! This year our Barbreck girls have shown their resilience and strength of character in so many ways. They have impressed me with their ability to roll with the feeling of uncertainty when they try new things. The effort they put into every task they attempt is commendable. They always start their STEM classes with a warm smile and a ‘can do’ attitude. E is for engaging in learning! Learning is hard and so is trying and trying again in the face of what feels like failure. However, through asking questions, collaboration, and time to reflect, the girls persist and eventually enjoy the feeling of success, knowing they CAN achieve. They have learnt what it means to truly tinker, how to design experiments, program with Scratch and model different aspects of the world around us. M is for more please! Bring on 2023!

Junior School STEM Specialist