The Australian Microelectronics Centre, through its K12 Robotics Program, fosters technical skills for the future by supporting school students to develop their interest in engineering as a career pathway. The Centre facilitates robotics workshops, looks to supports local robotics competitions and establishes linkages between students and industry.
Supporting three schools through a collaboration with the Queensland Mines and energy academy. Students engauge in a mine mapping project as part of there science or engineering studies.
The second round of robotics engineering training took place at Nanango State High School recently where Damien Kee (Domabotics) ran two workshops for students in years 8-10. The workshop also provided a professional development opportunity for teacher, James Nelson, who will be responsible for the roll out of the Mine Mapping Robotics program through their new Digital Automated Technologies (DAT) subject.
The project will commence in term two with Nanango and Toolooa State High schools rolling it out through their curriculum.
Moranbah State High School is also involved in the project however robotics is one of the extra-curricula activities offered by the school.
Domabotics supplies professional development training for teachers in the field of Robotics Education.
We provide:
Teacher professional development workshops
Student classroom incursions
Custom robotics training
Teacher resources and robotics publications
Domabotics professional development workshops are endorsed by the Science Teachers Association of QLD (STAQ) and the QLD Society of Information Technology Educators (QSITE).
Modern Teaching Aids are the leading supplier of Lego Educational products. We are the major sponsor of the Australian RoboCup Junior competition. In addition, we support the competition and robotics education through workshops which we provide throughout Australia. Please visit www.teaching.com.au to browse or buy online from a broad range of products that range from robotics to the entire school curriculum.
Moore Educational is an Australian company proudly distributing LEGO Education Resources to all Australian schools and exclusively bringing LEGO Education Centres to Australia.
It is going to be a jam packed event and a thrill of a life time in Bundaberg this year!
Come one, come all to TREK robotics and show us your stuff!
'Wow' the judges and claim a prize for your school! Everyone is a winner. Don't miss out, enter today!
This weekend is full of fun, innovation, action-packed racing and imagination. Students are gathering to camp with their teammates, work as a team, and race on a state-wide level, against schools from all over Queensland - plus some from across Australia and overseas! There’s awesome competitions for primary and high school students.
The School of ITEE hosts the annual RoboCup Junior Queensland competition. Schools are invited to attend workshops to learn how to build and program robots and to compete in RoboCup Junior.
In 2008 FIRST Lego League teams from both Australia and New Zealand joined 92,000 other children from 43 countries around the world to compete in the international robotics contest
Questacon Smart Moves is a travelling Outreach program promoting cutting edge research, new ideas and entrepreneurship in science, engineering and technology.
If you’re young, creative, original and want to set yourself up for an awesome future, Questacon Smart Moves can help you:
find out about cutting edge careers in science, engineering and technology
discover some of the unbelievable science happening today
become an entrepreneur by coming up with business ideas in science, engineering and technology
catch up with other young Australian business people and cutting edge researchers
The Gold Coast Digital Manufacturing Marine Challenge (GCDMMC) is a Workplace Excellence Program funded by the Department of Tourism, Regional Development and Industry and the Department of Education, Training and the Arts and fully supported by key local industry organisations.
