What’s on in Makerspace during Term 4!
Makerspace is open before school and at lunchtimes. We can’t wait to see you there! Check out this video to see the exciting workshops we have planned for Term 4.
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Term 2, 2023
Makerspace is a fun collaborative space. A place to make new friends, try new equipment, a place be creative and curious. Students can come to Makerspace before school and at lunchtime. Each week we have an activity that you can do or you can do your creating and making.
Week 1 – ANZAC Poppies
Remembering our diggers, we made commemorative poppies in the library and added them to a wreath made of rosemary, alongside stories of brave nurses and soldiers. 
Week 2 – Macrame Key Chain
What’s knot to love about Macrame? In makerspace we have be learning the ancient knot tying techniques of macrame. Square, twist or the tricky mermaid tail, we have used all these knots to make key chains.
Week 3 – Mother’s Day Cards
In Japan, Origami is a popular art form that is commonly integrated into the curriculum for children in elementary school to help them develop patience and spatial skills as well as enhance memory and concentration. This week in Makerspace we have been creating beautiful origami tulips to decorate Mother’s day cards.
Week 4 – Photo frames
We have been making photo frames for Mother’s Day. The process requires patience, precision and perseverance, some of the great qualities we learn from our Mothers.
Week 5 – Winch construction
This week in Makerspace we have been constructing a Winch from cardboard, string and wire. Engaging our students in simple STEM projects helps develop crucial skills like problem solving, communication, collaboration and creativity. We have also been constructing Lego WeDo, creations and bringing them to life with code.
Makerspace is a dynamic space in our Library equipped with craft supplies, games, puzzles, construction tools. The space is a hive of activity before school and at lunchtime, a space to stimulate enquiring minds, encourage experimentation, facilitate collaboration and enable creativity.
Week 6 – LEGO Spike Prime
Makerspace students have been unpacking our new LEGO Spike Prime Kit a fantastic tool for STEAM learning. The kit combines colourful LEGO construction with a programable multi port hub and intuitive drag and drop coding language based on Scratch. This kit will be fabulous fun addition to our Makerspace providing creative learning opportunities, engaging students in critical thinking and problem solving – developing essential 21st century skills.
Week 7 – SPLAT 3D Design
We have been creating 3D pictures using SPLAT drawing tools. We drew optical illusions using shading and perspective and block designs of possible Lego creatures.
SPLATs are an award winning 3D drawing tool that help teach students how to draw 3D shapes. Students develop their capacity for geometric and spatial thinking, supporting the development of creativity and problem solving.
Week 8 – God’s eye weaving
Gods eye weaving, or ‘Ojo de Dios’ is a simple, ancient weaving technique originating in Mexico. The eyes, made with wool and wood are traditionally made to bless a home. The Makerspace students have enjoyed this contemplative and spiritual practice and made some beautiful Gods eyes this week.
Week 9 – Mancala and other games
Winding down to the school holidays we have been learning how to play Mancala and other games in Makerspace. Mancala is an ancient strategy board game with two players taking turns the objective is to capture the most glass beads.
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What’s on in Makerspace during Term 3!
Makerspace is open before school and at lunchtimes. We can’t wait to see you there! Check out this video to see the exciting workshops we have planned for Term 3.
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What’s on in Makerspace during Term 2!
Makerspace will be open from Week 1, before school and at lunchtimes. We can’t wait to see you there! Check out the below video for our exciting workshops.
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Come inside Makerspace in 2023!
Makerspace will be available from week 1, Term 1 before school and at lunchtimes. We can’t wait to see you there! Check out the below video for our exciting workshops.
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Term 2, 2022
An action packed term in Makerspace with a strong STEAM focus for our curious and creative inventors.
Week 1 – Lego We Do
The students amazed us by constructing designs with Lego and then using motors and code blocks to program their creations to move. Some students followed the guidelines and created complex kits and other went off-piste and invent their own designs.
Week 2 & 3 – Paper craft
Origami tulips and Mother’s Day cards. Makerspace is a place for nurturing the wellbeing and creativity of our students. The students put lots of love and care into cards for Mother’s day and contributed some of their creations to make beautiful buckets of paper tulips for our Library front counter.
Week 4 – Smart Rooms
Creativity and fun in the Makerspace using LittleBits, colourful electronic Bits that help make learning about circuitry and electronics fun and imaginative. We added fans, lights, and even a record player to our room designs with a variety of switches and features.
Week 5 & 6 – Makey Makey & Squishy Circuits
Making music in Makerspace this week. Using a circuit board, alligator clips, and a USB cable, Makey Makey uses closed loop electric signals to make everyday objects into computer keys. We made foil bongo drums, a coin guitar, play dough piano keys and game controllers.
Squishy Circuits were used to make a light up caterpillar for our Open Day display, showcasing all our amazing Makerspace and Cre8 Lab workshops. The students showed our Open Day guests how playdough is conductive and how to make music with glasses of coloured water and a leaf!
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Week 7 – Manga Mania
Manga comic books and graphic novels are always popular in our library so we held a Manga art class. Our amazingly talented senior art students helped run the class showing our Makerspace students how to draw in distinctive Manga style. We also discussed all things Manga, history, favourite titles, characters, styles and genres.
Week 8 – Lanterns for the Luminous Lantern Parade
Makerspace student made beautiful Magnolia Lanterns for the All Hallows’ Human Rights Group to carry at the Luminous Lantern Parade. Now in its 15th year, LUMINOUS is one of Queensland’s largest welcome events, capturing the imagination of Queenslanders with its spectacular use of light to symbolise hope and create welcome for new Queenslanders.
The spectacular lantern procession, held on Friday 10 June at South Bank wound its way on a short and symbolic walk down the promenade taking in the sites of the city skyline. The Parade ended at the South Bank Piazza for a vibrant World Music Concert, with the lanterns bathed in the luminous light symbolising welcome and hope for many people from all over the world, especially our newest Queenslanders.
Week 9 – Moving to our new Makerspace
We are so excited to be moving to our new library and brand new Makerspace in Term 3. We look forward to showing you all the exciting things we will be creating and discovering in our new space.
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A Sneak Peek
Come and join us on your lunch break for some creativity and fun! Makerspace is a lovely room at the back of the library where you can come with your friends and explore! Let your imagination take you away! No experience required, we will teach you and before you know it, you will be teaching all of your friends.
Watch this short presentation to see what we have planned.
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Check out our presentation for the activities that will be offered in the McAuley Makerspace during Term 2.
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13th June, 2019
Click on the presentation below and check out the new makerspace activities for next term.
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11th June, 2019
Makerspace Term 2 has been super popular!
We stared the term with mask painting inspired by the 2019 Whole School Project – Building Bingavia. We looked at traditional masks and art from Papua New Guinea and the students used paints and paper plates to create the masks. Week 2 was super busy with two types of pop-up (exploding) cards for Mother’s Day. We also ran this as a classroom activity with two grade five classes so it was quite a big week with over 150 cards made. This was a challenging project for the students as directions had to be followed closely for the cards to ‘pop’, and it was a great success.
Week 3 we repeated last year’s very popular Mother’s Day scrub. The girls mix, package and label a scrub made of sugar, coconut and essential oils, 150 scrubs were made this year.
In our preparation for Open day the students spent the next two weeks getting the ‘Lego We Do’ constructed and coded and the squishy circuit AHS Bakery display ready. The students made cupcakes and biscuits out of playdoh which we decorated with LED light circuits to show the conductivity of playdoh. Open day was very successful with lots of interest and amazement about all that we do in Makerspace at AHS. Week 6 so no set activity so the students constructed all the Lego Architecture kits including the Leaning Tower of Piza and the Lincoln Memorial. We also took delivery of the new Lego table which is very popular and has inspired some great free-style creations.
Week 7 we made heart shaped felt bag tags, the students had to trace, cut, stitch and stuff the hearts. Many of the girls had never threaded a needle or sewed before so it was a great learning experience.
About 60 hearts were made all up and a couple of students moved onto their own designs including a tiger. Week 8 took the stitching to a new level and the students made scrunchies. This involved more technical aspects of sewing a tube, turning the tube inside out and gathering the fabric onto elastic. Week 9 was technology week, the students were able to get hands on experience the google expeditions, dot and dash, spheros and code combat.
Additions to our makerspace this term have been the giant games, which have proved popular, and most recently the Lego table which is crowded both before school and lunchtimes, some fantastic creations have been made so far.
