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This term saw the start of our after school STEM/ MakerEd program called Tinkertime Plus. It will run every Thursday afternoon. The aim of the project is to encourage and further student's interests in STEM and learning to be a Maker.



Our project this term will be on creating a creature using lights so that we will eventually have a light display. We will be turning umbrellas into Sea creatures using lights. A part of this project will be to code Arduino's which will power and sequence the lights. Our Inspiration comes from the following video:







Ghost Peloton from NVA on Vimeo.

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