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STEM Incursion with Cardijn College

23.09.20

Last Friday, the Reception children had a visit from some Year 12 students from Cardijn College. They ran some lessons that were STEM based activities. STEM is a learning area that focuses on scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical based thinking. These activities require team work, critical thinking and problem solving. We engaged in three different activities and had to solve problems using only certain materials.

The activities were:

  1. ​Bridge Building - who could build the strongest bridge (using only newspaper, popsticks and sticky tape) and hold the most marbles?
  2. Making walkie talkies using string, sticky tape and cups.
  3. Who could build the tallest tower, using only popsticks and sticky tape?