High Potential & Gifted Learners Program

Thinking Like Elon Musk: Enterprise & Creative Thinking Elective

Our three teams are diligently working toward their submissions for the STEM Make a Difference (MAD) Competition. This competition requires participants to develop an innovation that addresses real-world problems and demonstrates how students in Catholic schools take action. Student teams are designing a range of products, services and innovations to make a difference within their community, the people around them or in their environment. 

Calm Cap - Anna and Mannat

We are aiming to prototype a device that uses electroencephalography (EEG) technology to detect overstimulation, stress and other irregularities and then counter these. We’re endeavouring to code an app prototype that can analyse the data collected by EEG sensors to give suggestions to a person in the moment. We have planned to have it all encompassed in a cap/hat. 

Request to the SJPC community:

Mannat and Anna are seeking a specialist in the field of neurology and EEG technology to assist with their research.  If you can assist, please contact Mr Dewhurst and aaron.dewhurst@lism.catholic.edu.au

- Harper Dent, Davis Flanagan, Ben Melinz

Monkey & Co is an eco-friendly brand of gum producers targeting the young, active and lazy. With the ability to easily digest your gum with an added health benefit, eating gum has never been more recommended. Forget the old days of eating fattening, gut rotting and outlawed gum, and welcome to the new age of gum so good that your doctor will recommend it. Our preliminary prototype, which we are soon to put into testing, includes the following ingredients: xylitol (natural sweetener), gum base (Starch, Beeswax, Calcium Carbonate, Chicle), peppermint oil (flavouring), food colouring (colour), aspartame, probiotic.

Battery to Pottery Chamber - Gabriel Wark & Finn Baker

Our product, the Battery to Pottery Chamber, is a machine that extracts and recycles expired lithium batteries to reduce landfill and contamination. The product extracts the lithium from electric car batteries and converts it into a gas that can be condensed and used in the production of pottery glazing. It uses the reaction of lithium when it is exposed to pure oxygen to convert spent lithium into white lithium oxide which is one the the critical agents in the glazing for pots. 

Aaron Dewhurst
Leader of High Potential Learning