STEM MAD National

Participating schools should:

• Undertake a STEM activity in your school. We'd encourage this to be part of your planned Curriculum. For example, students could participate in Minds@work, and then submit their project again for STEM MAD judging.

• Complete the internal showcase/presentation and moderation by the end of Term 3 

• Provide a 90 second summary video to National moderators for review and final determination.

• Apply the STEM MAD project criteria. (See Information for Schools)

• Understand the three STEM MAD entry areas – Primary, Secondary and the future of STEM.

What is  STEM education?

What if our implementation of STEM promoted STEM as something curious and exciting? What if we could encourage innovation?

What if we could encourage our children to not give up the dream, to never stop challenging and innovating, and to think about solutions to the big problems that they know exist around them.

STEM is not an extra.It's an integrated approach to teaching  and assessing Science, Technologies and Maths in a unit where these disciplines have meaningful connections for students. General Capabilities like Numeracy,  ICT Capabilities and Critical and Creative Thinking should be evident.

Dispositions such as collaboration, innovation, creativity, curiosity, communication, flexibility will be developed alongside inquiry, problem solving,  social skills and design thinking.1

 1.https://sites.google.com/rok.catholic.edu.au/stem/stem-in-the-curriculum