Digital Technology Adventures

Elective Unit

Unit Description

This Computing elective offers a rich and differentiated Digital Technologies curriculum to students with a wide range of interests and skills.

For students new to computing, this course will introduce key Digital Technologies concepts and skills. The course consists of a coding element as well as a robotics unit where students may work collaboratively.

Areas of Study

Coding with Python

This stream caters for students at the beginner, intermediate and advanced levels as students undertake a series of self-paced modules and progressively work through the foundational elements of coding. The advanced levels include file management and more complex data-structures.

Robotics

Working with EV3 Mindstorms, students are required to innovate and apply their problem-solving skills to a range of creative design challenges based around a theme (e.g. Natural disasters, Space exploration). This stream is suitable for students with varying levels of experience. Complex engineering solutions can be explored along with advanced multi-tasking programming features.

Assessment

The two assessment tasks comprise of a Python software solution and a collection of Robot challenges.