1. Future Earth – Our World in Your Hands
Kids’ STEM Convention 2017
Future Earth – Our World in Your Hands

3. Science and Technology

4. Investigations - Categories
Students must submit and nominate their investigations for display in one of the following categories;
Design and Engineering Technology
Digital Technology
Scientific Investigations

5. Investigations and inquiry pedagogy
Science
‘The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.’
English Oxford Dictionary
Our students are scientists
We need to assist our students understand and think like scientists
For our students to thinking like scientists they need opportunities to do what scientists do….

6. Technologies –Process & Production Skills
Creating designed solutions by: investigating and defining
generating and designing
producing and implementing
evaluating
collaborating and managing

7. Design and Engineering Technology
Students will design/engineer a solution to a real world problem.

8. Digital Technology
Students will design/engineer a digital solution to a real world problem.

9. Science Inquiry Skills
Questioning and predicting: Identifying and constructing questions, proposing hypotheses and suggesting possible outcomes.
Planning and conducting: Making decisions about how to investigate or solve a problem and carrying out an investigation, including the collection of data.
Processing and analysing data and information: Representing data in meaningful and useful ways; identifying trends, patterns and relationships in data, and using this evidence to justify conclusions.
Evaluating: Considering the quality of available evidence and the merit or significance of a claim, proposition or conclusion with reference to that evidence.
Communicating: Conveying information or ideas to others through appropriate representations, text types and modes. 

10. Scientific Investigations
Students will design a scientific question and create an experiment to devise some proposed answers to the question.

11. Investigations - Awards
Awards will be issued to the best investigation from each investigation category. Additional awards will be issued to;
Innovation Award – Recognising the project that best displays imagination, initiative and different ways of thinking to create scientific experiments, useful products or outcomes.
Preferred Futures – Individuals & Society – Recognising the project that displays critical and creative thinking to produce an outcome that would best benefit individuals, society.
Preferred Futures - Environment – Recognising the project that displays critical and creative thinking to produce an outcome that would best benefit the local and global environment.
Mathematics Award – Recognising the project that displayed the best use of mathematical thinking.
Scientific Communication Award - Recognising the project that communicates an aspect of science in the most effectively.

12. Teacher PD Short videos (Less that 5 minutes) Aligned to curriculum
Various aspects of the investigations eg ‘how to investigate a problem’, how to create a design brief etc
Aimed at Student’s and teachers
You tube links will be uploaded to the Kids STEM Convention web site.

13. Future Earth – Our World in Your Hands See you at the Celebration
Kids’ STEM Convention 2017
Future Earth – Our World in Your Hands See you at the Celebration