People are saying a lot of things about artificial intelligence. Some think that it will change the world for the worse. Others that it will steal your job. Few are going all out and saying that it will lead to the next World War. Maybe generating fear and exaggerating the realities of AI today and […]
We’re featured in Twinkl’s blog – Why Coding is the Skill of the Future for Children – Part Two. Check out some of their other educational resources on Digital Technologies here.
We are proud to be featured on the https://findyourplacesa.com website! You can find us on the Information for Guardians & Educators page (https://findyourplacesa.com/for-guardians-and-educators/) and on the Defence Industry Career Options for High School Students page (https://findyourplacesa.com/for-high-school-students/). And we are in really good company next to the University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia, Flinders […]
We are happy to announce that our teams won 3 trophies in the 2021 RoboCup Junior State Championship: first and second place in Standard League Soccer, and second place in Secondary Rescue Line (which is first for us). Congratulations to all students involved! We would also like to express our sincerest gratitude to Defence SA […]
South Australia’s defence industry is one of the state’s fastest growing sectors, offering lifelong opportunities across a range of exciting and varied careers.
On 28 October 2020, our students went to Mars! We spent a whole day at Hamilton Space School, a designated facility and specialist curriculum to lead space education. Hamilton Secondary College is one of the two institutions in Australia (the other is Strathmore College in Melbourne) able to run the Mission to Mars STEM activity. […]
2020 was an unfortunate year for everyone. Even in Robotics, we had to run our classes online for two months and use virtual robots. In term of competitions, most of them were cancelled, a few were online, and online two were organised face to face: in South Australia and Western Australia. However, this year was […]
Did you know? By the age of six, children start to classify jobs as male and female. By 13, they rule out careers that don’t fit with gender stereotypes. And 60% of girls aspire to stereotypically ‘female’ jobs by the age of 16. In Australia, women make up 28% of the STEM workforce, with only […]
The City of West Torrens decided that Thebarton Community Centre will close until further notice, along with other libraries and centres in Adelaide. So, rather than moving the course to another location where some of the students would not be able to attend due to distance or parents’ concerns regarding COVID-19, we decided to move […]
On 29 Nov 2019, we attended the South Australian Robotics Sumo Championship. We had 8 teams out of a total of 31. After first rounds, we had 5 teams in the quarter-finals (even if we should’ve had 6). Then all four teams in the semifinals were ours. And of course, the finals. We ended up […]