St Matthew’s held a Science, Maths and Engineering Careers Expo as part of their Catholic Schools Week celebrations, to show students the occupational applications of what they learn in the classroom.
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Around 35 businesses and organisations had information stands.
The afternoon was full of flying lizards, drones, geology cores, bread, wool, cancer research, sports analysis, anatomy, agriculture, engineering, augmented reality, cranes, wine, CPR and more.
The expo for students from Years 8, 9 and 10, and was also open to any interested senior students as well.
Science teacher at St Matthew’s Catholic School, Lou Puslednik, said that it was about showing the applications of the school subjects.
“The goal is to try and get the students thinking about how they can use maths and science once they’ve finished school by linking them to real jobs,” she said.
“We wanted to have a wide variety of occupations represented as well; from those in academia to geologists, bread makers, wine makers, and medical design.
“The idea was to show that a scientist is only someone in a white coat.”
There was also a presentation by Dr Terry Ord of the University of NSW, about his research and the day to day work of someone in his field.
