This year we have converted one of our classrooms into a MakerSpace.  Our Makerspace is a place where students can wonder, be challenged, explore and discover through a cycle of imagining, designing, creating, testing and improving.  This space provides opportunities for highlighting the many connections between Science, Technologies, Engineering, Arts and Maths (STEAM) and provides students with a relaxing, flexible place where they can “make stuff”.

During term 1 many of our Middle & Senior Learning Community students have been involved in a lunchtime Coding Club & Makers Club.  Centered around a technologies theme, students have explored pixel theory and pixel art through many mediums, including

• Graph paper & textas
• Wooden squares & Blu-Tack
• PixelArt Maker iPad App
• Tynker iPad Coding App
• Minecraft add-ons for Tynker
• Minecraft 3D paper craft
• Plastic Hama Beads

Through all of these mediums, students have explored how pictures, designs, creations, digital artworks & gaming characters all consist of grids of coloured squares or circles.  They have discovered that the detail & quality of the creation increases as the number of pixels increases.  This knowledge & the associated skills will be built on in the Technologies curriculum as well as in Maths, Science & The Arts (ie digital photography).

Please enjoy our gallery of our students in action and some of their creations.