QPHS Spring Term 2024 magazine - Magazine - Page 10
Morse code to ping pong launchers!
This term Year 7 have been busy
completing a range of engaging STEM
activities after school every Thursday.
These have included presentations on
their STEM heroes, debates on global
warming and constructing steady hand
games, to name but a few!
A popular activity involved students
making a battery from coins, cardboard
and tin foil that was then used to light
an LED. This enabled students to
develop their engineering and practical
skills.
They have also made their own LED
torches and used these to learn Morse
code. They were then able to send
different coded messages to each
other, which proved quite a novelty!
Students have also taken on the role of
environmental engineers and set the
challenge to develop a way to solve
how to remove oil spills from the ocean.
For this exercise they completed a
range of science practicals and tested
different materials to discover which
could absorb oil from water.
In STEM club we researched
information about someone in a
STEM career and designed a poster.
We learnt new facts and developed
our team work skills. I enjoyed
doing this because we were able to
work with our friends to create a
poster. We then had to present our
STEM heroes to everyone.
Victoria, Year 7 student