| Leading the region in ATAR excellence | | http://www.smcm.qld.edu.au/News-&-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/Pages/Leading-the-region-in-ATAR-excellence.aspx | Leading the region in ATAR excellence | <h1>2020 Student Year 12
Success</h1><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">The students
graduating from St Mary’s College in 2020 should feel very proud of their post
schooling options and pathways and have much to celebrate. </p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">A massive
congratulations to our fantastic class of 2020 </p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">16% received an ATAR
above 96</p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">28% received an ATAR
above 90</p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">47% received an ATAR
above 87</p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">(In approximate OP
terms, these students would have ranked OP 1-7)</p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;"> </p><h2>As the first students
to complete the new QCE system, they have done significantly well across all
areas.</h2><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">2020 Graduates
Post-Schooling Summary:</p><ul style="margin-left:0.375in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;"><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">100% of students received their
QCE/VET qualifications across a variety of areas</span></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">47% of students received an
ATAR or 87 or above (In approximate OP terms, these students would have
ranked OP 1-7)</span></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">Over 90% of University-bound
students received their first preference of course and institution across
a range of Science, Engineering, Health, Law, Education, and Design.</span></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">Students have received
apprenticeships in a range of areas in Maryborough</span></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">Others have applied for the
armed forces and taken up employment locally</span></li></ul><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;">Special
acknowledgement goes to our MANY students who received 90 and above! <br></h2><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;text-align:center;"><img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Leading-the-region-in-ATAR-excellence/millie.jpg" alt="millie.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:150px;" /> <img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Leading-the-region-in-ATAR-excellence/matthew.jpg" alt="matthew.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:150px;height:150px;" /> <img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Leading-the-region-in-ATAR-excellence/jack%20m.jpg" alt="jack m.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:150px;height:150px;" /><br></p><div style="text-align:center;"><img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Leading-the-region-in-ATAR-excellence/jack%20at.jpg" alt="jack at.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:150px;height:150px;" /> <img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Leading-the-region-in-ATAR-excellence/archie.jpg" alt="archie.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:150px;height:150px;" /> <img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Leading-the-region-in-ATAR-excellence/emma.jpg" alt="emma.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:150px;height:150px;" /></div><div><div style="text-align:center;"><img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Leading-the-region-in-ATAR-excellence/alyssa.jpg" alt="alyssa.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:150px;height:150px;" /> <img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Leading-the-region-in-ATAR-excellence/ellie.jpg" alt="ellie.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:150px;height:150px;" /> <img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Leading-the-region-in-ATAR-excellence/jordan.jpg" alt="jordan.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:150px;height:150px;" /></div><br><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">We look forward to
hearing their stories over future years as they will always be a part of our St
Mary’s Community. We wish them well in all endeavours.</span><p><br></p></div> | | | | |
| Premiers Coding Challenge Winners | | http://www.smcm.qld.edu.au/News-&-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/Pages/Premiers-Coding-Challenge-Winners.aspx | Premiers Coding Challenge Winners | <p><img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Premiers-Coding-Challenge-Winners/Premier%27s%20Coding%20Challenge%20Finalists%20Ava%20Smith%20and%20Skyla%20Birch.jpg" alt="Premier's Coding Challenge Finalists Ava Smith and Skyla Birch.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:634px;" /><br></p><p>AVA
Smith and Skyla Birch from St Mary’s College recently won the Queensland
Premiers Coding Challenge. They competed in the Year 7-8 Python/JavaScript/
HTML Pairs Category. The Premier’s Coding Challenge is an annual state-wide
initiative open to all Queensland students in Year 3 to Year 10, to encourage
and foster a love of technology, coding and development. The Virtual
presentation was live streamed across the state and was broadcast at the
College assembly. </p><p>St Mary’s College always encourages interested students to
participate in the competition with the 2020 challenge set to code an
interactive and innovative digital solution to raise awareness of
cybersecurity. From explaining the importance of cybersecurity, to planning a
digital solution for a specific audience, writing an algorithm, turning the
algorithm into visual block code using Scratch or text-based code using HTML or
Python, all the way through to supporting a self-evaluation of the prototype
and filming a video explanation of their design. Ava, Skyla and other students
were encouraged to enter as part of the College Makerspace (The CITADEL). “We
would like to thank Ms Patterson and Mrs T for helping in the setup, the
recommendations and coding advice” To enter the challenge, the students began
by learning a new language. Ava explained “We really wanted to challenge
ourselves but we first had to learn HTML code” Skyla said “I think the hardest
thing was, we had all these ideas, but we really had to limit them down and
find a general idea what we wanted. “Then we were able to adopt things and take
things away to streamline it.” The girls created their entry - a website, using
HTML code, they then utilised the College CITADEL equipment to transfer the
website onto a Raspberry Pi device which they set up as a web server. Ava said
“We got our friends and other students in the library to test it and tell us
what they thought, we could kind of tell if they found it exciting, and we
found what we had to do after that.” Ava and Skyla have a real passion for STEM
which they share with their peers. </p><p>As a duo, the girls have become regular
winners of technology based awards, in January 2020, the won the Young STEM
Award at the Fraser Coast Australia Day Awards. In 2019, the girls won the Mayor’s
Telstra Innovation Awards and won a trip to Sydney. From that they were invited
to apply to be SheEO Activators as part of a Queensland Government Initiative
that sponsored 10 women to be Activators. Ava and Skyla reviewed businesses
asking for funding from SheEO in 2020 and voted on which women-led venture
should receive the money. These sessions were held online and continued through
COVID19 lock down.<br></p><p><img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Premiers-Coding-Challenge-Winners/coding%20challenge%202.png" alt="coding challenge 2.png" style="margin:5px;width:299px;height:269px;" /> <img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Premiers-Coding-Challenge-Winners/coding%20challenge%203.png" alt="coding challenge 3.png" style="margin:5px;width:319px;height:268px;" /><br></p> | | | | |
| Top Technology Hub for our Seniors | | http://www.smcm.qld.edu.au/News-&-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/Pages/Event-back-on!-Taster-Day-5-August-2020.aspx | Top Technology Hub for our Seniors | <h1>Top
Technology Hub for our Seniors<br></h1><h2>Term 4 2020 welcomed
the launch of the newly renovated exceptional
Senior Hub</h2><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;color:#050505;"> </p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">The newly renovated
Senior Classroom Hub is dedicated to our Students advanced learning
requirements, St Mary's College is excited to have the project finished and
ready for our valued students to enjoy. </p><p lang="en-US" style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">The seniors
contributed to the internal design preferences and are very excited to now have
such an advanced space dedicated to inspiring and supporting their learning.
Discreetly jam packed with the latest technology the equipment within the rooms seamlessly
integrate with every student and staff members individual College laptop and
technology devices, the comfortable furnishings create distinctive multi-work
spaces, within the set of three unique expansive rooms. </p><p lang="en-US" style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">Our
students were given a tour of the rooms ahead of the official launch, here is
what they had to say…</p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Jack Mott (Captain of College)</span> "The
comfortable furniture and collaborative learning spaces are really good, We
enjoy writing on the Whiteboard walls in groups. Working with the teacher,
being able to display and work on our projects straight from our laptops to the
touch boards and back is pretty nice."<br></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Eyerus Dale and Elle Wilson</span> - "We like
writing on the whiteboard walls and we both like the new chairs and beanbags,
this helps us relax in learning, it's great to have collaboration spaces and
also the whiteboard tables"<br></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;text-align:center;"><img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Event-back-on!-Taster-Day-5-August-2020/Senior%20classroom%20hub.jpg" alt="Senior classroom hub.jpg" class="ms-rteImage-2" style="margin:5px;width:285px;" /><br></p><p lang="en-US" style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;"> </p><h2>The following week St
Mary's College invited some special guests to tour our newly renovated senior
classroom hub…</h2><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">Deputy Principal Bern
Feldman hosted the group and welcomed them to explore the features designed
with the latest technology, our students will now enhance their learning with
versatile spaces combined with their fully supported laptop and IT systems. </p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">It was wonderful to be
introduced to Labor Senator for Queensland Anthony Chisholm with MP Bruce
Saunders and again see our Mayor George Seymour joined by Deputy Mayor Darren
Everard and our Division 4 Councillor Daniel Sanderson. <br></p><h2><br></h2><p style="color:#0072c6;font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> <img src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Event-back-on!-Taster-Day-5-August-2020/New%20Senior%20learning%20hub.jpg" alt="New Senior learning hub.jpg" class="ms-rteImage-2" style="margin:5px;width:720px;height:477px;" /><br></p> | | | | |
| Twenty20 Art Exhibition Virtually Everywhere | | http://www.smcm.qld.edu.au/News-&-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/Pages/Twenty20-Art-Exhibition-Virtually-Everywhere.aspx | Twenty20 Art Exhibition Virtually Everywhere | <p style="margin:0in;color:black;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;"><img class="ms-rteImage-2" alt="St Mary's College - Twenty20 Exhibition (2).jpg" src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Twenty20-Art-Exhibition-Virtually-Everywhere/St%20Mary%27s%20College%20-%20Twenty20%20Exhibition%20(2).jpg" style="margin:5px;border:medium;width:800px;color:#000000;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial;font-size:14.66px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box;orphans:2;" /><br> </p><p style="margin:0in;color:black;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">Today St
Mary's College launched Fraser Coast’s latest artistic event… The Twenty20
exhibition<br></p>
<p><br> </p><p style="margin:0in;color:black;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">Launching
the Virtual Twenty20 exhibition on Thursday 13 August at St Mary's College, was
Mayor George Seymour, Principal Stephan le Roux and Teacher of Visual Art Tim
Chamberlain. </p><p style="margin:0in;color:black;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;"><span> </span>Last year's Twenty19 Exhibition launch was
attended by hundreds of supportive community members, with the night including
musical and performance entertainment alongside the amazing visual works of art
at Gatakers Art space, a highlight of the visual arts calendar. Due to the
impacts of COVID19 and community safety concerns this year, the College
recognised the need to redesign the exhibition without compromising the
students ability to display their artworks in a gallery. </p><p style="margin:0in;color:black;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;"> </p><p style="margin:0in;color:black;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;">St Mary's
College’s focus on progressive technologies influenced the direction of the
COVID safe event. It was decided that the exhibition would go virtual, giving
the power to visit the gallery to everyone interested, anywhere in the world.
Students have been working on submissions in the classroom and at home, with
contributions including paint, drawing, photography, mixed media, digital art,
installation art and performance with all entries included in the virtual
exhibition. Mr Chamberlain was the brains behind such a forward initiative and
the designer of the online space. This is an experience we encourage all to
enjoy and St Mary's College invites the Fraser Coast to visit the exhibition
from the comfort of your phone, laptop or digital device, and take a walk in
the virtual art world.</p><p style="margin:0in;color:black;font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;"> </p><p style="margin:0in;color:black;font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Want to view Twenty20? Download the Artsteps App (Apple, Android) or
visit </span><a href="http://www.artsteps.com/"><span style="font-family:calibri;">www.artsteps.com</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> and search for the "Twenty20" exhibition.</span></p><p style="margin:0in;color:black;font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br></span> </p>
<p><img class="ms-rteImage-2" src="/PublishingImages/Twenty20%20art%20launch.jpg" alt="" style="margin:5px;width:634px;" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="ms-rteImage-2" alt="St Mary's College Twenty20 art exhibition.jpg" src="/News-%26-Events/SMC-Top-News-Stories/SiteAssets/Pages/Twenty20-Art-Exhibition-Virtually-Everywhere/St%20Mary%27s%20College%20Twenty20%20art%20exhibition.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:400px;height:481px;" /><br> </p> | | | | |
