Technology Studies

ms Angela Xu | Design and Technology Key Teacher

As we have completed the second year of remote learning, it’s time to celebrate our achievements and highlights in Technology Studies. All students and staff members in Product Design Technology, System Engineering and Food Technology overcame numerous remote learning challenges with calmness, motivation and a great amount of dedication and effort.

In Product Design and Technology, our Year 7 students learned about Computer Aided Design for the first time, ultilising 3D modelling, laser cutting and augmented reality technologies to produce user-centred design solutions: an animal slot toy and a wooden car toy. Our Year 7 boys developed a solid foundation using the 3D modelling software ‘Onshape’ which lays a firm foundation of 3D visualisation.

In Year 9 Design Technology, our boys applied Computer Aided Design (Adobe Illustrator) to produce cool laser cut clocks. One enthusiastic student even created two designs with two materials: both wooden and acrylic sheets. In Year 12 System engineering, there are some impressive products being made. Alexander Forster developed a retro arcade machine with a high resolution LCD display, two joysticks, two sets of player buttons, a mini HDMI display board and sensors which measure CPU temperature, VRAM usage, frames per second ingame and CPU clock speed. The design also incorporated a fan and a coin mech, as well as castor wheels so it can be moved around. It was constructed from pinewood and some of the pieces were laser cut so that the monitor and speakers could fit perfectly.

7B students work 7C: James Redlich (Owl) & Issac Ng (Frog)

Clock by Iskra Zlatanovski (Y9) Clock by Christos Tsoukalas (Y9)

A beautiful occasional table by Sean Cahill (Y11 Product Design & Technology)

Steady Hand Game by Brendan Kang (Year 8B System Engineering)

In Food Technology, students and staff continue to produce delicious food at home. In Food Technology, students and staff continued to cook delicious cuisine at home. They also spent a great amount of effort in the theory study, such as writing comprehensive evaluations about their cooking journey, learning about healthy diet and creating aesthetic magazine recipes and informative food infographics. Lastly, let’s not forget to acknowledge the wonderful effort and dedication of our Technology Studies staff, who spent many extra hard-working hours to make sure students enjoyed a smooth, meaningful remote learning experience. Special thanks to Johnathan Stevens, Nick Place, Dan Place, Ruby Anstee and Lois Curry - our wonderful assistant staff: we couldn’t have produced these amazing results without your ongoing support! Best Wishes to Ms Molly Tilley and Ms Ruby Anstee on their departure from Salesian College Chadstone. We look forward to welcoming Mr Andrew Cho, Ms Ashleigh O’Brien and Ms Lucyanne Aguis joining our Food Technology Team in 2022.

Retro Arcade Machine by Alexander Forster (Y12)

Infographic poster by Matthew Babington

Harry Gardner 8E Themi Gounaris 8C

Krish Ahuja 7C

Christmas cupcake by Year 8 Students