Brett Webber | Digital Technologies and VET Teacher
Galen Catholic College

Brett's passion for STEM and digital technologies has led him to embarking on a journey with his colleague Maree Timms and helping improve STEM and digital technology learning opportunities for all students in North East Victoria.

Together they have been fortunate in being able to use their passion to assist Galen Catholic College students to represent Australia at the VEX Robotics World Championships in 2018, 2019 and 2020 (virtually), and in the inaugural Kibo Robotic Programming Challenge in 2020, where they finished 3rd. Through this success they have now established a successful learning environment at our school where all Year 7, 8 and 9 Galen Catholic College students learn robotics and programming using VEX IQ as part of their core curriculum.

Appearances:

Day 2 @ 12:00

VEX Breakout Session - The Robotics Journey. Creative and innovative approaches to scaling STEM? robotics in F-12 curriculum, cocurricular competition and community

Hear from a panel of educators speak about their experience creating and implementing new robotics curriculum, commencing, and scaling cocurricular robotics, and engaging their network of schools or broader community to become involved in this exciting and rapidly growing area. Understand the ‘pain points’, resourcing needed and managing expectations for growth within your school. You will also learn about the free training, support, and resources available, and how you can join a vibrant professional learning community of enthusiastic STEM robotics educators! Bring the excitement of robotics to students in your school!

Maree Timms, Science & Maths Teacher, Galen Catholic College