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What: To celebrate our new partnership, Merici College is hosting a themed trivia night and auction to raise money for...
ACT and Southern NSW Interschools Snow Sports Competition Tuesday 23 July to Friday 26 July)
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On behalf of our Year 7 students, we would like to invite our Year 7 Grandparent/special person to our celebration on Tuesday...
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Numeracy is a compulsory component of our curriculum, and to make numeracy fun and relevant to our students, today the World of Maths roadshow visited our school. This was an ideal opportunity for students to see how maths is applied to some real life situations. More importantly, students were engaged in hands-on activities that catered for all ability levels and probed their problem solving skills. The students found World of Maths highly engaging and demonstrated that Maths can be fun!
‘Entrepreneurs: It’s your Move’ is an innovative curriculum program created through ACT Health and the Education Department for Year 9 students to study a semester program developing and implementing a real-life health project at Merici College. As part of the Global Studies program, students learn problem solving through design thinking, an approach highly regarding in industry occupations particularly within STEM and entrepreneurial industries.
We would like to congratulate Karly Roestbakken who will join the Young Matilidas in Asia https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/canberra-rising-star-karly-roestbakken-to-join-young-matilidas-in-asia-20180620-p4zmp6.html …. We wish you the best Karly!
On Friday May 25th, a team of five of our top senior mathematicians (Lauren Paterson, Bronte Alexander, Ravneet Dillon, Nicole Clough and Rosemary Zielinski) took part in the annual ANU Maths Day among more than 30 other College teams from Canberra and the region.
The Carbon Challenge!
The ACTSmart Carbon Challenge is just around the corner.
For the month of July, participants compete in a variety of challenges to reduce their carbon emissions.
You can register for the Challenge at https://www.actsmart.act.gov.au/resources/carbon-challenge and sign up to the Merici team by following the “Teams” link.
The schools with the most sign ups and the highest level of avoided emissions, wins some awesome prizes.
You may have seen the news a few weeks ago about recent data published by NASA providing further evidence of the presence of methane on Mars (https://lib-cosmos.merici.act.edu.au/space/mars-rover-finds-organics-changing-methane-levels).
Thank you to all our students who contributed to our CanLine this morning in support of the Vinnies Winter Appeal and OzHarvest and the wonderful work they do for the vulnerable in our local community . We received over 3,400 cans!
