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Tech Girls Movement gains momentum
An app with a bio consciousness designed by Sydney Catholic Schools students has won a national competition designed to bolster girls’ interest in science and technology. Created by girls at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School North Sydney, the Bio Be Aware app lets users look up if a plant or animal is endangered, rare, or harmful, and provides info on how to help it. Watch the Bio Be Aware full pitch: “You can take a photo, add your location and find who to contact for assistance,” the students wrote in their submission to the...
Solar challenge goes to school
For the first time ever, Fairfield Patrician Brothers’ College will not only take part in the annual UNSW SunSprint Model Solar Challenge – but will host half the competition. SunSprint invites primary and secondary students from across NSW and ACT to build solar cars or boats using renewable energy sources and then race them. “Students’ STEM – short for Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics – knowledge will be integral in implementing parts that are designed to make their car/boat efficient and more effective,” Patrician Brothers’ Year 9 STEM class teacher, Joshua Bryers, said. He said SunSprint gives students...
Care squares for charity
Students and staff at Bethlehem Catholic College Ashfield have been giving up their lunchtimes to knit care squares for blankets that will warm those in need around the world. The school’s learning resource teacher, Katheryn Gallagher, came up with the idea of students learning knitting after attending a knit-in for charity that made her feel privileged to be in the presence of others using their skills for the better good. Students and staff come together every Wednesday lunchtime in the library resource centre to knit squares for charity group Wrap With Love which “wraps” more than 30,000 people with...
