{"id":47699,"date":"2026-10-23T14:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/?post_type=article&p=47699"},"modified":"2026-10-23T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:51:45","slug":"stem-school-challenge-grand-final-2026","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/article\/stem-school-challenge-grand-final-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM School Challenge Grand Final 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"On Monday, six Year 6 students and six Year 9 students attended the STEM Schools Challenge Grand Finale 2026. Students were placed in different teams, giving them the opportunity to work collaboratively with students they had not worked with before, communicate effectively and contribute their ideas to a shared challenge.<\/div>\n
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Throughout the day, students worked through a Design Sprint process, including an Empathy Think Tank, Ideation Blitz, Prototype Sprint and Pitch Parlour. The girls embraced each stage with enthusiasm, creativity and confidence, developing innovative ideas and presenting their solutions.<\/div>\n
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Congratulations to all our students for their fantastic participation, with a special mention to Mila Coote<\/strong> (Year 6),\u00a0whose team placed third overall. It was a fun-filled, action-packed day of collaboration, creativity, and STEM learning!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2013 Melissa Bye<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
\nYear 6 Coordinator<\/div>\n
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On Monday, six Year 6 students and six Year 9 students attended the STEM Schools Challenge Grand Finale 2026. Students were placed in different teams, giving them the opportunity to work collaboratively with students they had not worked with before, communicate effectively and contribute their ideas to a shared challenge. \u00a0 Throughout the day, students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[9],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-47699","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/47699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=47699"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=47699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}