On Wednesday 18 May our Year 9 students showcased their Compass Passion Projects to their family and friends. Students begin these projects by brainstorming areas of interest, pastimes, future goals and topics of strong interest. Once a topic is decided, students learn the skills behind writing questions that require different levels of thinking. ‘What, where and when’ questions require recalling information while ‘comparing, categorising and specifying’ require the students to analyse and develop their higher-order thinking skills.
The Passion Projects Showcase evening in McAuley Hall was an exciting night for everyone. It was great seeing so many families at the College and students receiving plenty of positive feedback on the projects.
Well done to all of our students who showcased their projects.
Two of our Year 9 students outline their projects below:
My friends and I have created Jumpers Supporting Injuries (JSI) hoodies. The product we developed is for people that have an injury with their arm and need to support it. With our hoodie design they won't have to wear an uncomfortable arm sling. We came up with this idea as one of our team members had a broken arm and was finding it very uncomfortable wearing a sling that had a knot that was digging into her neck. Our design includes a pocket on a hoodie with a zipper that your cast will sit into. This will help keep the arm warm in the winter months and it will help support it. Our design means you could wear a hoodie when you have an injury to your arm, and also as a normal casual jumper as you can just use that pocket as storage. Proceeds not used for making more hoodies will go to the charity Beyond Blue. We came up with that idea as having a broken arm can also affect your mental health.
— Jessica Gould (Year 9 White)
We started the idea for our invention while thinking about how Shiloh and Lily were tired of catcalls and the inappropriate behaviour that they have experienced. Then Beau, Lily, Sarah and Shiloh started looking up statistics on kidnapping and attacks, such as hate crimes. We decided to make a line of concealed protective jewellery for our 'Let's invent project' for Compass. While creating the project we learned about financing, the intellectual property laws, how to pitch an idea and we improved on our public speaking skills.
— Lily Lucas (Year 9 Blue)
