At Clarkson Community High School we have always aimed to be a technology-focused school with some of the best resources in the state school system. These resources include our school laptop program, media facilities, 3D printers, laser cutter, photographic equipment and of course the school drones to name just a few, but lets not forget our web services too!
You may not know this but we have several websites in addition to our public site. These include a staff portal, our in-house learning management system for students (Moodle), online booking systems for physical resources like rooms, computer labs and school buses and online booking system for parent evenings.
All of these websites are hosted on-site and designed and maintained by our ICT staff. Recently, we undertook major server upgrades to ensure our sites are secure, current, reliable and fast.
We decided to take this opportunity to produce new versions of our public and staff websites that are optimised for mobile devices. No more zooming in and out or squinting, our websites now perform like apps on any smartphone or tablet with easy to read pages.
By Mr Steven Bishop, Design & Technology teacher
Clarkson Community High School takes great pride in always being on the cutting edge of new technologies. Back in 2014, we were one of the first schools to invest in 3D printing technologies on an industrial scale, now boasting seven high-end machines around the school and in our maker space printing with materials such as carbon fibre and polycarbonate.
Last year saw the introduction of laser technologies to our Technical Graphics courses in the form of an industrial laser cutting machine. Therefore, as introduction to the 2017 Year 12 Design Course, students were asked to design and manufacture a set of six drink coasters and a suitable holder to store them.
Year 12 Automotive students and their teacher Mr. Steven Bishop from Clarkson Community High School enjoyed a special treat today when a full military spec Hummer, or HumVee, paid a visit to the school.
This year our Year 11 ICT Certificate 2 students were fortunate to be given the task to build a top spec PC for use by our senior school 3D Design, Photography and ICT classes.
Year 12 Automotive students, along with their teacher Steven Bishop, have been busy designing and building an interesting new vehicle named “Black Betty” - a cross between a child’s roaster trike and a motorised quad bike.
Students came up with the design after finding an old trike in our school shed and a teacher donated a non-functioning quad bike. After some initial planning, the class took to dismantling their finds and began to re-engineer them to work together.
Despite the hysterical press that drones have been getting recently caused by irresponsible amateur pilots, they do have many positive professional uses, especially for aerial surveying or real estate applications.
Below are two panorama images taken from between 70m and 120m above our school using a DJI Inspire 1. The drone takes 20 images in a 360 degree pattern, then special software is used to "stitch" them together. The results are astounding!
Click on the images to view these interactive panoramas. Once the images have loaded you can click and drag your mouse to move around the image.
Pretty amazing stuff!
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