Captains of STEM set sail

Sarah Duggan

By Sarah Duggan
Published June 24, 2016

You might not be able to spy the ocean from the grounds of Gooseberry Hill Primary School on a Monday or Wednesday afternoon, but this is of little matter to the army of young boat ‘captains’ that you’ll find busily tinkering away on their own nautical vessels.

The Solar Engineers' Club proudly display their model boats.

Since its inception in 2006, children in the schools’ Solar Engineers’ Club have been devouring the challenge of designing and ...

This story appeared in the July 2016 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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