WA Students can STEM the Problems!
To generate authentic learning experiences for WA school students to apply STEM-inspired, curriculum-linked, design-thinking processes to solving real-world problems relating to the immediate and future impacts of COVID-19 and other community related needs in Western Australia.
We have raised an idea to bring the combined efforts of schools, industry, community and higher education to engage learners in meaningful, community-supportive, design-thinking STEM projects to aid and assist frontline workers, isolated and vulnerable community members, and others through the immediate demands of this crisis, and into longer-term recovery and transformation of our social, educational, and industrial efforts.
The real value comes in unleashing the creative capabilities of WA school students at scale. Bringing, potentially, hundreds of thousands of limber minds that are not yet limited by conditioning processes of working adult mindsets.
It might involve 3D printing, other manufacturing - including design and testing of prototypes - that could help ease the pressures on the systems supporting our communities. It could just as easily be designing new systems, new processes, or reimagining our interactions with each other and the world. It could be as simple as some artwork that help someone through the day. It could relate to communications, social engagement, community supports, sustainable actions, data systems, and more - the potential is enormous.
