Mandatory Technology

In Mandatory Technology, students across Year 7 and 8 have been exploring the concept of innovation and emerging technologies and sustainability through the use of a laser cutter.

The theme of sustainability was explored through many different avenues across the course; we engaged in discussions based on design factors and how these factors influence us as individuals and designers and reflected on our personal impact on the environment. Students designed and developed highly effective school posters and policies that promoted the use of three R’s (reduce, reuse and recycle) at FSHS using Adobe Illustrator.

Students were also able to see how emerging technologies such as the laser cutter (which was lovingly donated by your P&C) are used today to create more accurate products and prototypes. The skills developed using Adobe Illustrator were employed to create their laser cutting files which were then sent to the new laser cutting machine for printing. In the end students designed some very innovative and creative laser cut clock faces inspired by the environment around them!

Adam Semaan (TAS)