School STEM project takes off

Sarah Duggan

By Sarah Duggan
Published December 7, 2015

Making inanimate objects fly is usually a trick known only to magicians, but at Para Hills High School, a special ‘quadcopter team’ are busy doing just that

The Year 8 students from South Australia have been putting their engineering and electro technology skills to the test in ...

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This story appeared in the December 2015 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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