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25.01.2022 Over recent weeks, students and teachers of the #PNGAusPartnership Secondary Schools initiative have been sharing how their school communities have adapted to C...OVID-19 and been implementing new Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WaSH) measures as part of the initiative activity Tokstori bilong COVID-19 Stories of PNG & Australia. Rolled out to the 24 participating PNG and Australian schools, Tokstori bilong #COVID19 encouraged students to use their creative digital skills to take the lead and raise awareness about staying safe in their schools and communities. Watch the short compilation video below. Australian High Commission Papua New Guinea

25.01.2022 Congratulation to the Creekerbot 1 team who have received an international invitation to Greece in May! The your coaches, peers and the whole school community is extremely proud of you! If you are interested in joining the robotics club in 2020 please attend a meeting in LE204 Wednesday Lunch (1pm)

24.01.2022 Great opportunity

24.01.2022 HACKATHON UPDATE - Sunshine Coast: 3D Printers needed to help print face shields for our local hospital service. Preferred Printer: Prusa i3 Alternatively we will take other printers, but need the minimum specifications: -Accept 3rd Party Filament, we are using 1.75mm PETG... -Heated Print Bed -Bed Size 230mm x 230mm minimum. To get involved, contact Dominic Vrolijks - 0427835261 See more

23.01.2022 Exciting times ahead!!! FLL season 2020/2021 theme REPLAY! Looking forward to working towards this when it is released on the 2nd of August!

23.01.2022 From southside Brisbane to Ipswich to Fraser Coast, primary and preservice teachers are at Mountain Creek State High School - Official this morning developing their Digital Technologies skills at the Google-funded Dig Tech Skills Expo organised by Mountain Creek State High School and QSITE.

22.01.2022 Mountain Creek SHS begins its 2 year journey of involvement in the PNGAus Partnership education initiative, with a core focus on STEM.

21.01.2022 A great STEM Academy Immersion day today in the Leading Edge STEM Centre. A range of business mentors, a pitch coach, Arduino tech help desk and product designers - all working with the eleven year 7 teams solving problems around Sustainability and based on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Thank you to everyone involved!

21.01.2022 Congratulations to our Year 7 STEM Academy students on their outstanding Arduino based sustainable lean startup pitches this week. Our next generation are leading the way with their creative flair and design thinking. Well done all!

20.01.2022 Academy for Enterprising Girls Workshop inspires students to reach for the skies Some young entrepreneurs with big ideas enhanced their collaborative and critical thinking skills last Wednesday, through employing the design thinking method to tackle some of the world’s biggest issues. Facilitated by the Academy For Enterprising Girls the entire workshop was delivered online due to COVID restrictions. The students enthusiastically navigated the empathise define ideate pr...ototype pitch pathway of design thinking to envision what their ideas would look and feel like as products. Some of the feedback from the students in attendance; I loved that we could create our own pitch, and that we got to brainstorm some global issues that we though ere important. Overall, I think this was very useful and helpful workshop. :) The collaboration with my peers on identifying world issues and how we could potentially solve them with technology. Coming up with ideas of how to improve the world. It will be exciting to see how these 21st century skills the students have developed will be utilised in the future. https://www.facebook.com/enterprisinggirls/ @enterprisinggirls See more

20.01.2022 A great day in the Leading Edge STEM Centre at Mountain Creek High today with Create Noosa running their Jam Hack day follow up to the recent Immerse Conference. Creatives of all ages sharing ideas on how they can use AR and VR as part of their creative projects.

19.01.2022 Great leadership by Saara S (STEM Captain) and her STEM team of Jenna R and Sophie G as they host the inaugural Startup mInI day for year 5 students from across our feeder primary schools. An excellent initiative with concept development, planning and now delivery by the STEM team, with as-needed support from Ms Emma Hodkinson

18.01.2022 STEM Ambassadors creating a legacy at MCSHS Recently year 10 STEM ambassador Saara S participated in the 2019 STEM Girl Power Camp Alumni Event as a wrap up to this initiative supported by the Queensland Department of Education and University of Queensland. Saara has made many strong connections through this program with like-minded students interested in the STEM disciplines to underpin their future careers. More information about the program can be found at the departments ...twitter page. https://twitter.com/QLDStateSchools Furthermore Saara has collaborated with previous STEM girl power camp participant and current STEM captain of MCSHS Lauren VD to launch the ‘Academy for Enterprising girls’ at MCSHS. https://enterprisinggirls.com.au/ This initiative is Funded by Government at a Federal level and hopes to tap into interested students to develop the skills they need for the future. The online program is free and is based on design thinking. Young women participating in the program will be encouraged to cultivate their skills in design thinking, coding, business skills and STEM via self-paced online learning, or as part of an in-person workshop program. Lauren and Saara have adopted this program as part of the STEM team at MCSHS and aim on supporting participants and perhaps enhancing the program with supporting workshops through collaboration with Renee Coman at USC’s innovation centre. https://innovationcentre.com.au/ Just recently, Sophie G has been successful in attaining a place at the STEM girl power camp for 2020. Sophie submitted an excellent application highlighting her STEM credentials and strong leadership skills both within MCSHS and within the wider Sunshine Coast community. Huge congratulations to Sophie, we wish her all the best in her endeavours next year. This is the third consecutive year Mountain Creek has nominated a successful applicant for this prestigious event, building a strong legacy of STEM innovation at the school.

17.01.2022 Invitation to become an Industry Partner (IP) and help school students learn how the ICT industry operates. To find out more, visit the Industry Partner registration page - https://qldictgisp.acs.org.au/partners.html MORE DETAIL: During the second half of 2020, the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and Department of Education, Small Business and Investment (DESBT) partnered to create the Gateway to Industry in Schools Program (GiSP) to roll out across all regions in QLD. The ...idea is for a wide range of schools to be admitted and a range of industry partners to join with the benefits to students of: - ensuring industry standards and culture is passed onto students before they leave school - receiving valuable insight into what a tech career can offer - access to unique advice and experiences that will help to validate and trial where a career in gaming, software development, cyber security, artificial intelligence, etc could take them in the future The benefit to industry is: - school-leaver employees are aware of what each type of job entails - ideally a managed process through which schools can access industry advice for their students, ensuring the load is spread as evenly as possible Current industry partners who have already, or are in the process of signing up, are: - The Creative Collective - Sunshine Coast Council - Silicon Coast To give an idea of the levels of commitment involved as an industry partner, recently Yvette Adams from The Creative Collective agreed to come to Mountain Creek High and talk to the year 11 Certificate III in Information Technology students. Topics covered in the 1 hour talk were both operational and technical aspects, for example, the process of confirming the brief on a given job prior to commencement, and some discussions around Wordpress usage. Yvette then invited the students to come and visit her premises and chat with her staff about various aspects. The foundation school on the Sunshine Coast in 2020 is Mountain Creek State High School but more schools (public and private) will be added every year If you would be interested in becoming an Industry Partner with the ACS GiSP program, please visit the Industry Partner registration page - https://qldictgisp.acs.org.au/partners.html and an ACS project officer will be in contact. #ACS #ICT #industry #sunshinecoast

17.01.2022 Yes! Maintaining curiosity and a growth mindset are some of our top priorities.

17.01.2022 Academy for Enterprising Girls Launched at Mountain Creek High STEM captain year 11 student Lauren V and STEM ambassador Saara S (year 10) launched the Academy for Enterprising Girls today at Mountain Creek SHS. The leaders were encouraging junior students to register for the program to inspire girls to think innovatively and develop entrepreneurial skills. Enterprising Girls is about helping young Australian women develop the mindset and passion for entrepreneurial and STE...M (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects, that will set you up for future success. The online program will include expert advice from some of Australia’s most inspiring business people. Students will also learn to be resilient, understand the art of problem-solving, develop the confidence to bring your ideas to life and could even change the world! If you think this sounds like you, more information can be found at the link below: https://enterprisinggirls.com.au/

17.01.2022 A big shout out to Telstra! They're providing free WIFI for our Jam Creative Hack Day (Sat 19 October) at Mountain Creek State High School. THANK YOU to the Te...lstra Regional Australia - Southern Queensland team! You guys rock :). We can now get around Education Queensland's network/internet 'lockdown' - and provide access to VR/AR/STEAM software and the web, for everyone at Jam Creative Hack Day! Phew :-). Big thanks to Graeme Breen and the Mountain Creek State High team for hosting our event! We're excited to utilise your new STEM Hub!

15.01.2022 CREEKERBOTS in action!!!

15.01.2022 Congratulations to both CREEKERBOT teams winning awards and progressing to nationals! And BIG congratulations to CREEKERBOT 1 who won the overall champions award for the day #Robotics #NationalsHereWeCome #Champions

12.01.2022 Cultures unite! Yesterday we welcomed our friends from Mount Hagen Secondary School, PNG, to the Creek with a traditional indigenous dance and ceremony by elder James Doyle. The day was a mix of STEM based learning and sharing of culture. #pngauspartnership

12.01.2022 Coding and Innovation STEM Academy The focus this year in the STEM Academy has been in improving Arduino electronics programming skills and practising pitching of solutions. The UN Sustainability Goals are embedded throughout the course and so final pitches to the Shark Tank-style judging panel covered all key areas of interest to industry groups including confirmed problem, tested solution using technology and based on science facts, and addressing one or more of the UN Su...stainability Goals. A highlight included two year 8 students (Saul N-R and Eva L) being invited to the Innovation Centre based at University of the Sunshine Coast to pitch to the members and guests. The feedback was exceptional! Also impressive was the Arduino-based solution developed by year 8 student Ethan T. The feedback from the judges was admiration for such a sophisticated solution. Well done Ethan! See more

12.01.2022 Year 9 STEM Academy finalists 'COVID Killer'.

12.01.2022 We are so incredibly excited for the MCSHS Creekerbots 1 robotics team who have been invited to compete at the International FLL competition in May In Greece ...! We have been proud sponsors of the Robotics teams for the last few years. If you would like to join us in sponsoring to make sure the whole team can compete at the International event, send us a message and we will forward details to you!

11.01.2022 Yeowww go CREEKERBOTS & Robokings

11.01.2022 We are looking for sponsors for the successful CREEKERBOTS who are heading to Greece to compete in the FLL internationals. Jump on board and get your name on this shirt! Contact Niamh O'Sullivan on [email protected]

10.01.2022 Sat 19 October 2019. Afternoon session - 8 teams create their creative + immersive tech proof of concept/prototype, teams communicate their ideas (pitches), judging, winners!

10.01.2022 A quick update on the two Mountain Creek State High School Year 9 STEM Academy teams, COVID Killer (Sarah S, Braedyn B, Bianca M) and Data Bean (Eva L, Owen T, Melika R, Daniel P) who made it into the top 9 teams of the national Shark Tank entrepreneurial competition. - Data Bean came first in the Environmental category - COVID Killer came second in the STEM category... These are great results for both teams and they should feel justifiably proud of the quality of their pitches and the level of sophistication in their Arduino-based MVPs. The teams were pitching against 300 teams Australia wide, in a competition of all Year 10/11 students.

09.01.2022 Feel good Friday! Year 9 STEM students Bianca M and Eva L created this incredible original song and production in response to the inquiry question 'How have you or your community responded positively to the time of COVID-19?' Brilliant work girls!

09.01.2022 If you are down in Brisbane this weekend make sure you drop into this epic FREE event!

09.01.2022 Unity training for teachers from Roma to Gympie at Mountain Creek State High School - Official on Monday and Tuesday. Some great projects planned for students!

08.01.2022 Jarrod Hellmuth a traffic engineer from the Sunshine Coast Council dropped in this morning to work with our Robotics Club Students who are competing in the international STEM competition First Lego League. They are working on their Innovation Project to improved traffic congestion out the front of Mountain Creek SHS!

06.01.2022 One of our amazing Sponsors

06.01.2022 Congratulations to our two Year 9 STEM Academy teams, COVID Killer (Sarah S, Braedyn B, Bianca M) and Data Bean (Eva L, Owen T, Melika R, Daniel P) who have mad...e it into the top 9 teams of the national Shark Tank entrepreneurial competititon!! The teams were pitching against 300 teams Australia wide, in a competition of all Year 10/11 students. They will be competing in the finals this Wednesday. Wish them luck! Video: Data Bean

05.01.2022 Best of luck to the CREEKERBOTS Both have done their first run on the table and are feeling fantastic! LETS GO CREEKERS

05.01.2022 We're looking forward to introducing Virtual Reality production courses in years 9 and 10 from 2020!

04.01.2022 Fantastic day today at the FLL Nationals competition. Both teams preforming high in all areas and CREEKERBOTS 1 winning the major award in the area of TEAMWORK! As a robotics community we couldn't be prouder! Thank you too all the students, coaches, parents, family and friends. The energy that we bring to every competition is contagious and we represent the school with such pride. #GraciousProfessionalism

04.01.2022 This is exciting!!! The new season of FLL is on the way

02.01.2022 Sat 19 October 2019. Morning session - creativity, ideation, picking a team, refining ideas

01.01.2022 Today, I welcomed a group visiting from Mt Hagen in PNG who have a twinning arrangement with Mountain Creek SHS. I really enjoyed the opportunity to engage. We talked about footy, the beach, education and PNG’s contribution to the world’s levels of Oxygen Welcome!

01.01.2022 Excited for the RoboRave robotics competition in May at the USC: University of the Sunshine Coast #AwesomeRobiticsComp #InternationalCompOnTheCoast