Information Technology

Design Thinking: A choice of activities
- Year 7 /
- Year 8 /
- Year 9 /
- Year 10
Students use design thinking techniques to empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test innovative solutions.
Emergency Technology
- Year 7 /
- Year 8
- Advanced Manufacturing /
- Information Technology
Algorithmic thinking is used to enable IoT responses.
Food Futures
- Year 9 /
- Year 10
Students understand how we can change the way we farm our food resources to be more effective, efficient and use technologies to help us become more sustainable.
Inspired Technology (Biomimicry)
- Year 7 /
- Year 8
Students discover how biomimicry has assisted in design for new technologies.
LEGO Challenge
- Year 5 /
- Year 6
Learning with LEGO provides opportunities for students to engage in all aspects of STEM. This program explores robotics and programming.
Logistic FAILs
- Year 7 /
- Year 8
Our Future Industries all require an Industry 4.0 approach. Student will discover how logistical process occur in factories and automated systems.
Mission to Mars
- Year 7 /
- Year 8
Using virtual reality, data analysis and algorithmic thinking, students endeavour to answer the question, how could we live and work on mars?
Online – Chatbot Creation with Amazon Web Service (AWS)
- Year 7 /
- Year 8 /
- Year 9 /
- Year 10 /
- Year 11
- Information Technology
Create a Chatbot to help out around the school or your home. KIOSC and AWS have teamed up to provide students with this program.
Online – Forensic Science: Crack the COVID Case
- Year 9 /
- Year 10
- Information Technology /
- Medical Technologies
Students use the KIOSC Learning Management System (LMS) to solve the Knox International Laboratories for Lifesaving Epidemiological Research (KILLER) crime.
Online – Mission to Mars
- Year 7 /
- Year 8
- Information Technology /
- Medical Technologies
Introduction How could we live and work on Mars? Space exploration and the willingness of humans to live on other planets is becoming a reality. Society has adopted many benefits from space research & explorations... Read more
Online – STEM Activity: 3D Design and Print
- Year 7 /
- Year 8 /
- Year 9 /
- Year 10 /
- Year 11 /
- Year 12
- Design Solutions /
- Information Technology
Introduction This activity is part of a larger unit conducted at KIOSC, however due to current restrictions, we are able to have students participate in the STEM activity online. The overall aim of this activity... Read more
Online – STEM Activity: Digital Storytelling – Fractured Fairytales
- Year 5 /
- Year 6 /
- Year 7 /
- Year 8 /
- Year 9 /
- Year 10 /
- Year 11
- Design Solutions /
- Information Technology
Students use PowerPoint to re-design fairytales to become 'choose your own adventure' style.
Online – STEM Activity: Neuromotor Training with BBC Micro:bit
- Year 7 /
- Year 8 /
- Year 9 /
- Year 10
- Information Technology /
- Medical Technologies
KIOSC's online component of the "Design Thinking: Neuromotor Training with the BBC micro:bit" program. This is a small engaging lesson to learn how to code basic instructions for the Micro:bit.
Online – Tertiary Aspiration Program (TAP)
- Year 8 /
- Year 9 /
- Year 10
Join KIOSC ONLINE Our Tertiary Aspiration Program (TAP) will help inspire students to gain pathways into further educational study beyond Year 12. Bio-plastics | 3D Design | Arduino/Micro:bit | Scratch Gaming | Digital Health |... Read more
ONLINE – Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Event
- Year 5 /
- Year 6 /
- Year 7 /
- Year 8
The Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Event - KIOSC is supporting the new initiative from the Department of Education. The Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series aims to support 'high -ability' students to excel. Two Challenges to Explore: Ocean Sustainability and STEM Sprints
Science Week: Deep Blue – Ocean Sustainability
- Year 7 /
- Year 8 /
- Year 9
- Environmental Monitoring /
- Information Technology
How can we use technology to have a positive impact on our environment, cutting out non-biodegradable plastics and reducing invasive species are two important roles that we can play in helping our oceans.
Water: Treatment and Recycling
- Year 7
Students investigate the Western Treatment Plants water recycling system and compare how Australia is doing compared to the rest of the world.