Lego Masterchef

LEGO MASTERCHEF STOP MOTION CHALLENGE

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.

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.

Once again, the TAS curriculum needed to be adapted to be delivered innovatively for learning from home.

New design challenges were developed which aimed to continue to generate the excitement for designing and the application of technological skills that we often take for granted within The Croydon environment. Our Year 7 students are to be congratulated on their adaptability to the changing nature of design projects. Their enthusiasm for embracing new technological skills and the collaborative creativity on Zoom has been truly impressive. All Year 7 Design and Technology students were set the challenge to participate in a LEGO Masterchef Stop Motion extravaganza. The competition is inspired by the amazing work of ‘Clicker’, the stop motion master chef of the LEGO world! The competition rules included the addition of a maximum of three kitchen equipment items and two additional resources such as cardboard, playdough or fresh fruit and vegetables. Whilst we all have fond memories of creating with LEGO,

developing food products may not have been experienced by many. The experimental process to create replicas of food products required patience and perseverance. Once a range of objects were pieced Stop motion is an together, the girls worked enthusiastically to determine what to do with them in animated filmmaking order to create an engaging stop motion technique in which animation. objects are physically Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames. The objects then appear to move when the between individually series of frames is played back. It has been an absolute joy to see the individual and photographed frames. collaborative efforts of all students using the Stop Motion Studio app. We look forward to celebrating with and sharing the work of our PLC Sydney LEGO Masterchef Challenge competition winners at the completion of their projects.

Ms Jo Herrmann

Head of Technological and Applied Studies