Welcome Back Year 11s! I am so proud to continue with this fabulous cohort as the Year 11 Coordinator. We finished Year 10 with a lot to celebrate, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what this cohort can achieve over the next 2 years. Well, next 7 terms to be exact!

I have loved hearing about everyone’s summer holidays – a great mix of domestic and overseas travel, hard work in Christmas jobs/sports teams/volunteering, spending time with family and chilling with mates! I went to Japan, and actually ran into students from Kalamunda SHS on the mountains of Nagano!!

One of our Year 11s, Jasmine Barton, participated in the Binar X School Holiday Program. Here is a testimonial from Jasmine:

Over the school holidays I attended the Binar X school holiday program, I was one of around 16 students participating and it went for 11 days. Over the 11 days we learnt about Binar X, and we designed, programmed, created and launched rockets with payloads - my team's payload was a thermopile (heat sensor), which we launched to get data from the exhaust of the rocket to find out at which parts of the flight it was the hottest. I got to meet lots of awesome people at Curtin University (including NASA engineer Newton Cambell) and learnt a lot about the process of engineering and programming something to be sent into space.  On the final day of the program we also did a presentation of all of our work and findings and I was awarded the 'Communicating with Impact' award for my part of my groups presentation. 

I've also attached some photos of my rocket before and after the flight, the microcontroller for our sensor and the poster we made to go with our presentation (:

Amazing, Jasmine!

Have a great year everyone!