Digi Do STEM Conference

On Wednesday, December 7th, the Junior School STIGIT (Saint Ignatius Information Technology) team attended a student-led STEM conference at Scotch College. Our Year 5 team (Christian Iacopetta, Alexander Barona and Jonathan Kassara) ran a workshop on Micro:Bits (microprocessors) and our Year 6 team (Layla Aytona, Alinta Alessandrini, Luke Lafratta and Pranav Anthony) ran a workshop on Sphero chariot racing. Both teams presented with confidence and their workshops were highly engaging. The Year 5 team won a certificate for ‘Most Enthusiastic’ and Year 6 for ‘Most Futuristic Technology. The students also had their choice of workshops to attend on a wide variety of subjects such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and running a school weekly news program.

The experience was invaluable, giving our students the opportunity to hone their presentation skills whilst also engaging in other student workshops.

Lee McNamara
Design and Digital Technologies Specialist