Hands On Technology 2024 - Killara High School

Registration

• Art Metal Work (Silver Jewellery) – Advanced – $480.00
  For those of you who have done the introduction stage 4 jewellery course, this advanced course will allow to learn how to make some more complicated pieces for jewellery suitable for stage 5 students, such as the built-up ring, belt ring, heart ring, ‘V’ ring, crucifix pendant.
• Art Metal Work (Silver Jewellery)- Stage 4 - Introduction – $460.00
  This course is intended for those who have never done silver jewellery before and are looking to introduce it as a stage 4 option in Technology (mandatory). You will learn how to make a plain silver ring, a twisted ring and a pendant in sterling silver. This is taught from metalworking principles and can be taught in a metalwork room with quite basic tools.
• Introduction to AutoCAD - Architecture – $400.00
  This training course will demonstrate the basics of using AutoCAD to create and print 2D Architecture drawings. During the course you will work through a task suitable for Stage 5/Preliminary Design and Technology focusing on architectural design and drafting.
• Introduction to Onshape – $400.00
  This is a course introducing educators to Onshape. “Onshape is a professional-grade, cloud-native CAD platform that students and educators can access for FREE on any device, anywhere, anytime.”
  It is cloud-based platform that works on both Mac and PC. Design complex solid and surface models using top-down or bottom-up methodologies. Create highly structured and detailed assemblies with built-in standard hardware and parts linked from other Documents. Create fully detailed drawings of parts and assemblies with dimensions, and import and export of DWG, DWT and DXF file formats. Participants will leave the course able to model and draw products suitable for high school technology and engineering subjects. They will be able to manage Onshape in a school environment and access and develop resources for use in the classroom.
• Introduction to working with Timber - Year 7 - 9 – $450.00
  For teachers who are either new to or not very experienced/confident with working in the timber workshop. Instruction will include hand tools suitable for use with students, as well as machine use suitable for teachers. Work with traditional timber techniques creating two projects aimed at students in Years 7-9. The projects will look at a range of production methods, tips and tricks to ensure the greater success for students. Suitable tools and materials will be provided.
• IronCAD - 3D Modelling Software (Easy to learn, use & teach) – $400.00
  If you have struggled to master other CAD software this will be for you.
  
  IronCAD is a unique CAD program, allowing you to produce Models, Drawings, Rendered Scenes easily and quickly. As well as files for CNC manufacture – 3D Printing & Laser Cutting.
  
  PLEASE NOTE:- This is a Microsoft Windows program ONLY (not Mac)
  
  IronCAD Academic is free to Students and Teachers. School Licences are available free to schools.
  
  If you attend the course you will need to bring a laptop (with a mouse), with IronCAD pre-loaded. Attendees will be sent information on how to get the software loaded onto your laptops.
  
  You will be given a lot of resources for you and your students, which will give you a great head start introducing to your classes.
  
  For a quick overview of IronCAD, (just over 9 min video) go to:- https://ironcad.academy/tutorial/ironcad-a-fundamentally-a-better-way-to-design and there a lot more training videos on:- https://ironcad.academy
• Puppet Building- a magical conjunction of timber, textiles, and rapid prototyping. – $550.00
  Participants in this workshop will build their own hand and rod puppet (also known as Muppet Style) from scratch that they get to take back to school. This workshop is ideal for teachers looking at how multiple Technologies domains can be combined into one project. Teachers will use wood, foam, fleece, and 3D printed parts to build their own unique puppet. All materials required for this workshop are provided, and even if you have never sewn a stitch in your life, it is not a barrier to making a puppet.
  
  About your instructor:
  
  Katherine Hannaford is not only the Teacher Librarian and STEM coordinator at Macquarie Fields High School, she is also a professional puppet builder for Stage and Television for 20 years. Most recently, Katherine fabricated the puppets used on the 2021 ABC iView campaign seen on ABCTV, internet ads, billboards, buses, as well as puppets for the 2017 Schools Spectacular, and developed a Board Endorsed Course in Puppetry in 2016.
• River pour: Playing with Recycled Timber and More – $650.00
  Have you always wanted to know the Tips & Tricks of doing River Pours? How to get rid of those pesky air bubbles in pour on finishes? Or how to achieve great finishes using recycled timber? What products and requirements can be used for internal and external conditions?
  This workshop will give you all the tips and tricks and correct products to do River Pours and more. By doing your own projects you will be loaded up with techniques for working with recycled and new timber for making unique woodwork projects. You will gain tips & tricks on how to take very ordinary pieces of timber from fence palings to slab timber and turn them
  into one off masterpieces. The plan is for you to bring manageable pieces of 2nd hand timber with you to play with over the two days. We will do the pouring / Epoxy coating on Saturday and finishing on Sunday.
  We will provide you with a list of goodies (Do not sweat if you do not have timber – we can supply) and tools you will need to bring once advised you have selected our knowledgeable workshop.
• UX/UI design for website/apps/games development – $400.00
  Intended audience: teachers of Stage 6 courses: Industrial Technology Multimedia and the new Software Engineering and Enterprise Computing (particularly “Interactive Media”).
  
  
  Blurb:
  
  UX/UI Design for websites/apps/games development/VR/AR. This professional learning session will also briefly cover Wireframes, (industry standard and best practice for designing Interactive Media/Digital Products) and how they differ from Storyboards as described in the Course Specifications documents for both Software Engineering and Enterprise Computing courses.
  
  This is a session that focuses on a practical approach to teaching these topics that you can put to use fairly easily in your classes