Our Year 10 Seminar Science students have had an action packed term, exploring a range of applied areas of Science including:
Making Cars
The Year 10 Solar Racing Seminar students have learned about solar energy as a vehicle power source and constructing and modifying model STELR solar racer cars. These Year 10s were also challenged to design a small electric vehicle out of recycled goods. Many finding various ways to improve and make their little racers zoom more quickly.
Making Wine
Our Year 10 Agriculture, Horticulture and Viticulture class has had a busy fortnight with harvesting and crushing the grapes from the MLMC vineyard and learning about the fermentation process in winemaking. These students also attended an excursion to Yering Station Winery where they toured the facilities with the chief winemaker Willie Lunn. Students learned about the operation of a large scale wine making facility and the processes that are involved.
Making our Waterways Healthy
We began testing the water at Olinda Creek again this year with our Year 10 Environmental Seminar Science group. The students are learning about the waterway and testing the chemical composition and the health of the creek ecosystem, by looking at the chemical composition and bug life present in it. This activity is part of Melbourne Water’s River Detectives Program which we joined last year and have been selected to participate in again in 2018. The results gathered by our students are entered into a statewide database and contribute to the overall knowledge and understanding of the health of the waterways around Melbourne.
