Our 11-week term is almost at an end and with it comes the culmination of the Technology focus.

With iPad coding apps working overtime, the students have completed entire Codespark programs, reached higher scores in Scratch screen tapping games than ever before and designed more Bloxels gameboards than any year before. I am constantly amazed at how quickly and confidently boys adjust to new digital platforms and programs, and this term has been a testament to their ever-improving abilities. But whilst the lure of the iPad is tempting, it’s always music to my ears to hear students ask if they can build, either with recyclables or Lego, and to see what they create. Technology has provided us with not only super cool activities on the iPads, but with the theme for design projects, critical thinking about how camouflage is a natural form of technology, as well as the ability to create animated advertising campaigns for our very own Holy Ground Coffee van (stay tuned for these!).

As we start to move away from the electronic versions of technology, students will enter the Engineering term, and use structural and design elements as their technology to create Rube Goldberg machines, roller coasters, animal hybrids and engineered foods for Science Week. Have an amazing break over the holidays and we look forward to getting back into the Collaboratory next term.