Software Development provides students with opportunities for creative thinking, design development, problem-solving, decision-making and project management. Students acquire coding skills from Year 7 with Microbits and in Year 9 students gain knowledge and skills coding in languages such as MIT Scratch. In Year 10 students are introduced to object-oriented programming skills and concepts through the development of programs using Microsoft Visual Basic. This pathway can lead students to VCE Software Development, a subject that has attracted outstanding results at Mazenod.
Just digital: creating digital solutions.
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Digital Technologies can provide students with practical opportunities to use their design thinking and to be innovative developers of digital solutions. This approach gives students authentic learning challenges that foster curiosity, confidence, innovation, creativity, and cooperation. At Mazenod College, we help students develop their design and computational thinking skills, and to become safe, respectful, creative and innovative learners.
Software Development
STEM Programs
VCE VET Programs
Software Development
STEM Programs
STEM draws on four core disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The Year 8 STEM Enhancement Program offers selected students with opportunities to explore the Tello Drones, the Raspberry Pi operating system, Python and Explorer Robot. The Year 9 subjects continue to deliver the STEM curriculum to students through Tello Drones, Solar Robotics, and the Merge Cube in Augmented and Virtual Reality. These programs provide students with engaging and deep learning experiences.
VCE VET Programs
VCE VET Creative Digital Media is a three-year course extending from Year 10 to Year 12, providing students a pathway to pursue a career or further training in the screen and media industry such as film and television production, animation, and photography.
VCE VET Information and Communications Technology is a three-year course commencing in Year 10 through to Year 12 providing students with a broad range of skills and knowledge to pursue a career or further training in various sectors of the information and communications technology industries.
