Futurists' Fair: Week 1

Following on from ABCN's STEM+X Workshop, our Year 5/6 students will participate in a class project over a 4-6 week period. This class project will then be presented to a panel of judges via video conference: The Futurists' Fair.

For the Futurists' Fair, students need to come up with an idea that will brighten Australia's future.  It can be a new product, improvement to an existing product, experiment or invention. They need to use their STEM skills and abilities to develop this idea and show the judges how it will have a positive impact and improve the future of Australia in some way.

So in our first session, my amazing students brainstormed and then shared the problems that matter to them. Most of these students are 10 years old; I love how passionate they are about their world and their futures, but it hurts my heart that these are the issues that 10 year old children are concerned about:

In our next session students will finish adding their ideas to the padlet above, and then pitch their ideas to the whole group. Students will vote on one larger issue that they will all tackle, and then they will work together in small groups to create their solutions.

I can't wait to see what they come up with.  These are our change makers; watch this space!