Grants reporting

Eight Students to compete in the 2018 FIRST Robotics Competition in Sydney

Grant funding will assist 20 Coonabarabran High School students to attend the FIRST Robotics Competition in Sydney in March 2018.

Cecil Andrews College is sending 14 students the FIRST Robotics Competition which is the flagship competition of FIRST.

the Student Robotics Club Of South Australia 'The RoboRoos' is sending 18 students to attend the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition Of Science and Technology) Australian Regional Robotics competition at Sydney's Olympic Park in March, 2018.

Tumut High School will be sending five students to the National F1 in Schools finals held in Tasmania in 2018.

Broader Learning's Student Maker Projects will provide high school students from across the Newcastle region with the means and guidance to create amazing STEM projects. Possible ideas include custom vending machine, and a billy cart with electronic control systems. Four groups of five students will work with a Broader Learning project mentor over 20 weeks to build their STEM project incorporating hardware and software. These projects will be then exhibited and demonstrated at Newcastle Museum to promote STEM more broadly. Primary and high school students and schools from across Australia will also be able to access the online project logbooks, guides, videos and instructions in order to recreate, remix or create their own STEM maker projects with the Broader Learning Student Maker Projects as reference or inspiration.

St Philip's Christian College (Newcastle Campus) is sending four students to the National Finals for the F1 in Schools STEM Challenge in Launceston, Tasmania

Mackay North High is sending ten students to the State Finals for the F1 in Schools STEM Challenge in Tasmania.

Newton Moore Senior High School team of five students will be representing WA in Launceston, Tasmania at the National F1 in Schools Technology Challenge.

81 students will attend the Makers Got the Talent Competition.

The school will establish three mobile makerspace/innovation labs focusing on different aspects of STEM in the community.

Wagga Wagga City Council through the Museum of the Riverina is co-creating an exhibition that will present youth participants from the Sturt Public School with a range of historical scenarios. The participants are expected to use modern technologies and applications to understand these scenarios and interpret them for an exhibition. The museum will co-ordinate workshops with experts from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science for the student participants. Other schools will be invited to additional workshops held at the Museum during 2018 and in the summer school holidays 2018-19 when the exhibition is open. Students will apply STEM knowledge to solve problems, and then communicate these solutions to an audience. The disciplines to be included are 3D printing, coding, robotics, animation and website development.

Grant funding will assist four students to attend the Antarctic Experience Program in Hobart January 2018.

The School will add additional digital equipment to their existing Maker Space, investing in the latest innovative materials to add to their growing Digital Technology spaces within the school.

The portable maker space will provide all mainstream students and all students in the multiple autism and emotional disturbance or behavioural disorder classes the opportunity to engage in innovation and build 21st century learner capabilities. With a unique combination of WeDo 2.0, building bricks, classroom-friendly software, and engaging, inquiry-based prompts the maker space will make science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and coding come to life.

Innovation Connections promotes collaboration between small and medium sized Australian businesses and the research sector to develop new ideas with commercial potential.

Funding will help create a Maker Space in the school library and assist school students with their STEM learning.

Devika is providing technology workshops to public schools that are unable to fund such programs due to running costs or lack of equipment. The workshops will cover subjects including virtual reality, game development, website development, coding as well as integrating these skills with next generation technologies like drones, 3D printing and the internet of things (IoT). These workshops will be offered to public schools in the Illawarra region on a needs basis and will be run either after school at the school premises, or at the University of Wollongong SMART Infrastructure Facility.

A dedicated makerspace will be established at the school in 2018 for all students K-6 can access before school and after school, during STEAM lessons (team-taught with the STEAM specialist and the classroom teacher) and during lunch times. This makerspace will be utilised to ensure that all students' love for design and make through Project Based Learning is further exemplified.

The project's overaching objective is breeding to increase resistance to the juvenile pearl oyster mortality syndrome.

Innovation Connections promotes collaboration between small and medium sized Australian businesses and the research sector to develop new ideas with commercial potential.

The Australian Astronomical Observatory's distinguished visitor scheme aims to strengthen and enhance the AAO's visibility both locally and internationally and to provide opportunities for AAO staff to benefit from longer term collaborative visits by distinguished international colleagues.

Using Drones in Agriculture will involve learning how to use drones to improve efficiency within the agricultural setting. This will include stock management, data collection on soil, vegetation and stock patterns and other innovations.

The funding will help establish a maker space for students.

Funding will help establish a flexible learning maker space.