Year 7 St Mary MacKillop College students recently invited Year 5 and 6 Holy Family Gowrie and St Anthony’s Wanniassa students to participate in a Science, Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) Challenge Day.

Students worked together to delve into theories of investigation and develop a response to a variety of STEM based tasks that explored dimensions, balance and problem solving techniques.

Participants built water towers with plastic straws and tape that were capable of holding up to five litres of water, participated in a cup and saucer challenge and measured the galaxy with grains of rice.

St Mary MacKillop College Numeracy Project Coordinator, Paul Kruger developed the initiative as a valuable learning opportunity that also enabled Primary school staff to participate, teach and learn alongside Secondary teachers.

Staff and students enjoyed the shared learning experience and working in a collaborative space to come up with a variety of approaches and solutions using sceptic thinking.