24/08/2026
🥼🧬 Year 11 & 12 SciTech Excursion ⚗️🔬
As part of our leaving to learn programme last week we took a trip to SciTech. As always the lineup was both entertaining and enlightening. After some free time to wander around and look at the exhibits we headed into the auditorium for the spring loaded show, all about - well, springs!! Our host was most exuberant and entertaining and we learnt a lot about different types of springs and how even blocks of wood could become springs as Logan assisted her to build a suspension bridge using no fastenings at all. We learnt about a metal called nitanol, an alloy of nickel and titanium, which, when put in liquid nitrogen stretches out to a straight wire and then uses its memory to revert to a spring with the help of a hairdryer. The shop had some exciting finds and made a killing from both staff and student purchases.
Next was the planetarium where we were fascinated to watch the cosmos fly by as we found possible habitable planets. Our final activity, the sky's the limit, involved scroll saws - students designed and tested wing designs to see who could make the glider that flew the furthest. There were a few successes, especially for Cody, Zavier and Tyler - and many flops! We had a great day!
