Ying Ho, John Wong, Henrik Brokmeyer and Alex Wong. Congratulations to all Year 13 students who participated in this multi-faceted two day challenge. Strong teamwork and collaboration as well as a sense of humour worked in the students’ favour.
As students move through their senior years at Discovery College, the school aims to give them a future focus and exposure to the many opportunities they will have post education. This year Discovery College recruited over 30 parents and community members
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to participate in our first DC Career Fair. The inaugural event was a great success with students from Year 9 and above getting introductions to career fields ranging from banking to politics, medical to consulting, teaching, journalism, engineering, law, design, non-profit, human resources, ICT, construction, airline, hospitality, teaching and more. “Our students found it extremely beneficial to speak with and hear from experts in career fields of their interest, giving them a valuable insight into the type of skills needed to succeed and a clear pathway of how to get there,”
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Future Focus DC’s First Career Fair said Higher Education Counsellor Susie Blomfield. “The volunteer representatives were impressed with the depth questions our students asked and their genuine interest in particular career fields.” Following the success of this first career fair, the College is planning to make this an annual event and looks forward to working closely with local community drawing on their knowledge and expertise in helping guide our students towards possible future careers.
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Groups of Biology, Design, Chemistry, Sports Science and Physics students worked together from 14-15 November to meet a range of challenges including designing heart valves, creating a timing device, solving a murder Chemistry (Mr Beach was the victim), designing windmills, and delivery devices. The project was divided into three stages; planning, action and evaluation. Each group is awarded points for success at each activity. The team with most points at the end of the two days was awarded the Group 4 trophy. This year’s winners were Emily Lo, Mei
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The Group 4 Project is an interdisciplinary activity in which all Diploma Programme science students must participate with the hopes that they will develop an understanding of the relationships between scientific disciplines and their influence on other areas of knowledge. The intention is that students from the different Group 4 subjects analyse a common topic or problem. The exercise is a collaborative experience where the emphasis is on the processes, rather than the products such an activity. It also looked to be quite a lot of fun.
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