2022 Term 4 Holiday Program - Sydney

STEM Club

Topic: Junior Engineer Challenge - "Solar Lab"

Age group: K-2 and Y3-6

Date: 17-18 Jan 2023, 9am-4pm

Program Description:

Engineers love solving problems. They use scientific knowledge and skills to design creative solutions and invent new things. Join us this summer and bring your creative problem-solving and engineering skills to the next level!

Do you know these fun facts:

• Tokai University's Solar Car "Tokai Challenger" was the winner of the 2009 Global Green Challenge
• The first Mars Rover was solar-powered.
• In 1990 a solar-powered aircraft flew across the United States using no fuel
• If only 4% of the world's deserts were covered in solar cells, they could supply all of the world's electricity!

Are you curious and interested to find out more about this sustainable, green power? Investigate how we can use solar energy to solve a problem, power up electronics, and start a car?  Up for a design engineering challenge to prototype and build your own solar car and win a car race!

Learning experiences:

• Investigate how solar energy works in various interesting electronic kits.
• Explore the fundamental concepts of physics with hands-on experiments.
• Prototype & Build your own solar toy to further explore how solar energy is used in solving problems.
• Prototype & Build your own solar car for a junior engineering challenge.
• Showcase your solar car project and enter a car race competition!

* This program is suitable for girls and boys with curious minds. Girls who attended our STEM Club before loved this program!

Cost

• Ticket Price:  $230 per ticket (two full days)
• Early-bird discount ends on 4 December 2022. Enter discount code EARLYBIRD10 to get $10 off per ticket.
• Joining with friends? A group discount code is available for a group of at least three people. Please contact us at info@newpathedu.com

Teaching Team

The teachers/learning facilitators at New Path Education are professional, experienced, well qualified, and trained within their professions and have great passion and enthusiasm to build up children's essential skills in a creative, innovative and engaging way. All NPE learning facilitators have WWCC and have rich experience in teaching and facilitating learning for different age groups. All NPE programs are pedagogically guided, mentored, and reviewed by teachers or educational researchers to ensure their highest quality in content and learning outcome.  Get to know more about our wonderful team of talents @ NPE here!

Program Schedule

The educational program starts at 9:30 am and finishes at 3.30 pm. Supervision is provided before and after the program. Parents can drop off from 9-9:30 am and pick up from 3.30-4 pm. During the day there will be multiple breaks (morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea) and children will be able to access the shaded playing area during recess.

What to bring?

We will provide all devices, equipment and materials so all your kids need to bring are:

• Lunch, morning and afternoon snack
• Water bottle
• Hat and sunscreen
• Children are to wear comfortable clothes with closed shoes. Please note that enclosed shoes are mandatory for safety reasons.

Cancellation Policy

Please note the refund is not available after enrolment. If your child is unable to attend the workshop, please notify us as soon as possible via email. We will issue a credit voucher (cancellation fees apply) that can be used in any future NPE programs.

Cancellation fee:

50% cancellation fee applicable before 3 Jan 2023

75% cancellation fee applicable before 16 Jan 2023

No credit voucher will be issued if the notification is received within 24 hours before the class.

If your child is unable to attend due to sickness, please get in touch with us for a credit voucher. No cancellation fee will be charged if the medical certificate is provided.

For notification or any questions, please email us at: info@newpathedu.com.