Tech Clubs restart for 2019

There is a growth in the number of students extending their learning through the co-curricular tech clubs being held during lunchtime and after school.  This year St Margaret's College are offering robotics, coding as well as some new clubs aimed at the upper Junior School and Middle School students.  Construction Club is designed to enlighten the brains of the girl engineers.  Students developing their skills in the Construction Club will get an opportunity to enter the EPRO8 Challenge later on in the year.
We also hope to introduce a Minecraft club starting in term 2.  Planning for this club is well underway and will be student facilitated with Audrey Campbell mentoring these student leaders.
Robotics for year 4 - 13 continues to show keen interest.  Girls working on coding and creating their robots will get a chance to enter Robocup competing against other students in rescue, theatre or soccer. 
Since the introduction of our code club in 2015, we have steadily built on the number of girls getting involved.  We now have girls from other schools participating in our code clubs.  There are three levels of coding.  Our beginners learn Scratch, Intermediate coders are working with Python and our advanced coders are grappling with C++ and creating projects of personal interest.