Left: Mrs Cathy Wedd working over Zoom with Year 7 Design and Technology students during learning from home. Bottom of page: Students produced food such as watermelon, a banana and fairy bread with a Coke using LEGO in their stop motion videos.
LEGO MASTERCHEF STOP MOTION CHALLENGE What another challenging year it has been for our creative young designers. We are very proud of all our students in the Technological and Applied Studies (TAS) Faculty as they positively engaged in a range of design projects online that were not what they had planned for or in many cases had hoped to be doing. developing food products may not have been experienced Once again, the TAS curriculum needed to be adapted to be delivered innovatively for learning from home. by many. The experimental process to create replicas of New design challenges were developed which aimed to food products required patience and perseverance. continue to generate the excitement for designing and the Once a range of objects were pieced application of technological skills that we together, the girls worked enthusiastically often take for granted within The Croydon Stop motion is an to determine what to do with them in environment. Our Year 7 students are to animated filmmaking order to create an engaging stop motion be congratulated on their adaptability to animation. the changing nature of design projects. technique in which Their enthusiasm for embracing new Stop motion is an animated filmmaking objects are physically technique in which objects are physically technological skills and the collaborative creativity on Zoom has been truly manipulated in small increments between manipulated in impressive. individually photographed frames. The small increments objects then appear to move when the All Year 7 Design and Technology students series of frames is played back. It has been were set the challenge to participate between individually an absolute joy to see the individual and in a LEGO Masterchef Stop Motion collaborative efforts of all students using photographed frames. extravaganza. The competition is inspired the Stop Motion Studio app. We look by the amazing work of ‘Clicker’, the stop forward to celebrating with and sharing motion master chef of the LEGO world! the work of our PLC Sydney LEGO Masterchef Challenge The competition rules included the addition of a maximum of competition winners at the completion of their projects. three kitchen equipment items and two additional resources Ms Jo Herrmann such as cardboard, playdough or fresh fruit and vegetables. Head of Technological and Applied Studies Whilst we all have fond memories of creating with LEGO,
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