Robotics Adventure Day

 Join us for an exciting full-day event focused on robotics, STEM, and media, designed specifically for our Grade 3 students. During this hands-on experience, students will work in teams to tackle a thrilling challenge: designing, building, and programming a robot to navigate a course they create using paper and cardboard materials. The day will kick…

Explore the Western Treatment Plant – Virtual tour

If you’re not able to attend the STEMtastic Community Open Day at the Western Treatment Plant, we’ve got you covered! Join us for this online virtual tour of the amazing Western Treatment Plant! You’ll learn more about the largest sewage treatment plant in Melbourne and how our waste is turned into reusable resources and clean,…

Planks STEM Workshop

We’re inviting Green-Hat Workshops to Hillcrest Christian School to run a Planks workshop with our families. The students will explore forces, movement, balance, and symmetry as they participate in large-scale creative construction activities.  We’re hoping the families will enjoy working in teams, taking risks, and extending their understanding of construction and engineering as they create…

Collaborate to Innovate Expo

Touch it – Solve it – Feel it – Work it! Meet our brilliant researchers and industry partners and explore interactive displays of cutting-edge work shaping the future at this year’s Collaborate to Innovate Expo, held as part of Science Festival at the University of Melbourne. Guests will walk into an experiential maze of interactive…

SIMP@CT is STEM

This tour will engage local secondary science, geography and design and technology students to understand the occupation and profession of landscape architecture as a STEM profession, view the incorporation of STEM in a familiar and fun environment, where such connections may not have previously been made, and to encourage students to consider a STEM career, including…

The Science of Healthy Parks and Healthy People

This tour will engage local secondary science, geography and design and technology students to; understand the occupation and profession of landscape architecture as a STEM profession, view the incorporation of STEM in a familiar and fun environment, where such connections may not have previously been made, and to encourage students to consider a STEM career, including Landscape…

Get Wild at Perth Zoo with STEM

This tour will engage local secondary science, geography and design and technology students to; understand the occupation and profession of landscape architecture as a STEM profession, view the incorporation of STEM in a familiar and fun environment, where such connections may not have previously been made, and to encourage students to consider a STEM career, including…

Solar Vehicle STEM competition

Al-Taqwa College proudly presents our inaugural solar panel car competition with our Year 7 students. Students will first design and construct a vehicle powered by solar panels. They will then participate in a race covering 10-metre distance. Throughout the process, students employ the design thinking process to identify strategies on enhancing the speed of their…

Stargazers of the Renaissance with Fred Watson

Join us for a captivating and comprehensive exploration of Renaissance Astronomy with renowned astronomer Fred Watson. In this enlightening talk, delve into the remarkable contributions of key figures who revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos during the Renaissance period. Nicolaus Copernicus: The Polish astronomer who dared to challenge the long-held geocentric model of the universe….

STEAM Showcase

A collection of STEAM activities for all age groups. Attempt to survive changing ecosystems through adaptions, explore genetic diversity in koalas, make a bird feeder for your backyard, see CO2 dragsters racing and hydron RC cars in action, make slime and use microscopes. There are also some engineering and technologies-based learning activities participants can have…