What a fantastic cohort of students! What a great night at Bosch inspiring students in STEM.
It was great to welcome Alexia, a new Robogal – Monash Facilitator to her first RTL STEM workshop! Last session we welcomed Andrew a graduate from Swinburne to his first. Great to see the TEAM growing!
We encourage interested undergraduates to use the link below if interested in joining our team.
We began last nights session reminding students around the importance of collaboration. It’s great when a student like Jono provides a beautiful example of collaboration having posted a video on Trello in response to another student’s problem posed.
This reminded John, engineer at Bosch of a quote from Robert Bosch himself:
“Whenever you cannot do something yourself – be it for lack of skill or lack of time – the main thing is to know who the right people are for the job.”
(from: memoirs of Robert Bosch, 1921, quoted in: Bosch-Zünder, 23 (1941), p. 62)
Great start!
Then we introduced students (most for the first time) to Arduino and “Bread Boarding”. Always a treat to see this in action.
Then we resumed building of the students’ robot mechanical arms.
Whilst this was happening, Lenny a Grade 6 Student leader and his Dad were participating in a risk assessment with John from Bosch before Lenny takes on the responsibility for off-site 3D printing for the RTL team. This will enable students to have 3D designs they create in Cad printed.
After this we were inspired by Adithya and Aaron.
Adithya shared his passion for coding through EV3 Mindstorms. He has been most successful in tournaments and competitions such as Robocup. Very inspiring!
Aaron shared his passion for music with us and then proceeded to play some tracks whilst the students continued to build out their mechanical arms.
Oh, and when we called for a break some students like Hamish worked through their break. Who would ever want to interrupt such flow. Go Hamish!
During the week, students will be provided with free access to an Augmented Reality Platform kindly provided by Appearition. I can’t wait to see what these creative student build out in this platform.
Plenty to tinker with over the next 2 weeks!
We look forward to students sharing this via the Trello and Onenote platforms!
For students in Grade 5 to 8 interested in applying to participate in the RTL workshops in Term 3 please use the following link.
http://bit.ly/RTLSTEMWORKSHOP4
For post graduates and undergraduate engineers interested in becoming an RTL facilitator in the workshops please use the following link.
http://bit.ly/RTLFACILITATOR