TAKE FLIGHT + TOUR
Details
Available: Term 1 - Term 4 (February 2025 - May 2025 SCI-FI Tour / August - December 2025 DISTRACTION Tour)
Levels: 7 - 12
Sessions: Tuesday to Friday at 11am-2:15pm
Duration: 3.75 hours (two modules)
Capacity: 50 students (minimum 20 students)
Cost: $20 per student plus an Education Service Fee for each booking. For groups of 1-15 it’s $50, for 16-30 it’s $75 and for 31-60 it’s $100.
In Take Flight, students will get the opportunity to get hands-on with an emerging technology and think about the applications of maths beyond the numbers.
Using Python-based text commands, students will be challenged to fly their own drones. Practicing skills and geometry, students will work in teams to direct drones through a series of shapes and patterns. Along the way, students will learn about the applications of drones in industries such as agriculture, research, logistics and emergency response.
In the SCI-FI/DISTRACTION Tour, Learning Experience Facilitators will introduce students to the key concepts and ideas, facilitate group discussions and activities, and prompt students to think critically about the works. Students will have the opportunity to independently explore the exhibition with a scavenger hunt quiz containing thought-provoking questions and reflective activities before sharing their experience with the group.
Key Themes: drone industry, robotics, mathematics, coding.
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Informally engage with University student facilitators and the Science Gallery’s transdisciplinary approach to learn about STEM pathways.
Use Python-based text commands and utilise geometry and measurement to complete flying patterns through a series of activities of increasing complexity.
Explore the applications of drones across agriculture, health, engineering, entertainment and more.
Work as a team to determine the best route to complete an obstacle course, and code a drone to do so (if completeing two modules).
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Design and Technologies
Digital Technologies
Mathematics
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