The Electives Program
Our Electives Program is designed to broaden students’ experience beyond the classroom and offer opportunities to extend and deepen their knowledge in a particular area of study or ignite a passion for a particular general interest.
Students and staff thoroughly enjoy the many varied and interesting activities available in this comprehensive program.
On the Preshil website is an update of what we have been doing each term, which includes an introduction into electronics, learning a different technique to melt and form glass in the kiln, exploring the new and fascinating technology of 3D printing and e-textiles, creating and eating fresh produce and partaking of different sporting challenges, including Taekwondo, Fencing and Lawn Bowles to name a few.
- Bronte Howell
To learn more about what we offer, click the link below to access our blog.
Students and staff thoroughly enjoy the many varied and interesting activities available in this comprehensive program.
On the Preshil website is an update of what we have been doing each term, which includes an introduction into electronics, learning a different technique to melt and form glass in the kiln, exploring the new and fascinating technology of 3D printing and e-textiles, creating and eating fresh produce and partaking of different sporting challenges, including Taekwondo, Fencing and Lawn Bowles to name a few.
- Bronte Howell
To learn more about what we offer, click the link below to access our blog.
Street Art
with Adam Siddaway
Students in Street Art explore the works of the great street artists from all around the world as well as experimenting and developing their own ideas and styles. Many of the students have been making their mark around the school. In Term 4 Adam invited former student James Wilson, who is an artist/street artist stabled at Blender studios in the city, to demonstrate some awesome 12 layer stenciling, which students thought were pretty cool on all accounts.
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Arduino Programming
with Karl von Moller
In Term 2 we ran two streams. An advance group and an introductory group that had never programmed before but by the end they were creating custom functions and programming LEDs to make animations and sound effects using our Preshil shield designed by Karl von Moller for teaching (featured in this video). The advanced group built a data logger which records temperature to an SD card where they were able to graph their results on a computer. Please watch the video to see the results.
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Songwriting
with Lazare Agneskis
Some of our year 9 students have been working on this song 'Soul Donkey' over the last few months. The song writing elective helps students develop and refine ideas for songs, including chord progressions, melodies and rhythms. Students are also taught how to record their compositions and continue to add or change parts until they are happy with the end result. You can listen to their song here:
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Rocket Science
with Adam Simon
The Kerbal Space Program is a game designed to allow the player to experience the physics and complexities as well as the excitement and elation of building a rocket and piloting it into space, the magnitude of the universe and the imminent threat of explosions and death to those on board your craft. The course covers a basic understanding of the physics terminology and concepts, the mechanical concepts of engineering a spacecraft, Game Interfaces, Ladder Logic Programming, Long Range Navigation, Aerodynamics, Explosions and Space!
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Wearables | E-Textiles
with Harmony Yu
Students learned about electronics and programming using the Flora LilyPad Development Board which is designed to get you started in the world of e-textiles. Combining a LilyPad Simple Board with other LilyPad components like a buzzer, a vibration motor, an RGB LED, a button, a switch, LEDs, a light sensor, and a temperature sensor, the Flora lets you dive right into wearable electronics. Harmony, from (WIE) Woman in Engineering, guided the students through the basics of programming for the first 6 weeks and helped the students to complete a small electronic embellished festive decoration.
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Art Projects
with June McKenzie
During the year students in this elective create a diverse and creative body of work for their new and or ongoing individual projects, which includes sketching, painting, design and sculpture. They have also had the opportunity to have excursions to the Hawthorn Art Gallery to see some of their exhibitions including ‘The Audible Image’ and the “Data Flow Digital Influence and on occasion had the privilege of a personal tour with curator Dr Kent Wilson. Kent holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Monash University and is a practicing artist: his installation and sculptural works explore our human relationship with nature.
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