The College’s STEM Club students have been busy exploring the STEM process while engaging in a range of challenges at lunchtimes throughout this year. More recently our learning focused on the techniques and technologies involved in launching High Altitude Balloons (HAB) as we prepare for a launch in 2022.
The HAB Project, sponsored by the Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) and coordinated by Mr John Parlas, had its first HAB launch in 2019. Current STEM students at MLMC have been learning how to track the balloon’s journey and code sensors in order to collect and retrieve the atmospheric and flight data from the HAB mission.
This year we have also formed a partnership with a group of STEM students from nearby St Patrick's Primary School. We were delighted to have them join us at the College on Wednesday 1 June (pictured) to learn more about our HAB Project and we look forward to working together throughout this STEM project.
