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OCTOBER 2013

STEMSEL Club Members Newsletter

STEMSEL club in Civic Centre Careers Expo 2013 The Northern Futures Career Expo 2013 was held at the Playford Civic Centre on the 8th of August 2013 from 9:30AM to 4:00PM. The Careers Expo aimed at pro-viding local job seekers as well as Year 11 & 12 stu-dents a comfortable atmos-phere towards exploring the vast career opportuni-ties with the employees. The Expo included over 60 exhibitors advertising real jobs as well as career work-shops and guidance. This year eLabtronics and the STEMSEL club were pre-sent at the 2013 Careers Expo. By demonstrating the ezSystem software for microcontrollers; the main objective was attracting graduates and young motivated people who want to learn new skills as well as build on their knowledge of STEM-SEL.

Special points of interest:

• Reaching out to SA. Careers Expo, Science Alive & more!

• Switched On Science

• Insights on the 2013 Royal Ade-laide Show

• Summing up the International Radar Conference 2013

• What to expect in Term 4—Workshops at VTECH

• New Intermediate and Advanced Workshops

eLabtronics CEO Peng Choo demonstrates his magic

National Science Week 2013 - Science Alive!

As part of the 2013 Na-tional Science Week; The STEMSEL club partnered with Engineers Australia at Science Alive! to pro-mote engineering as well as engage and bring new light to the young moti-vated high school students of this generation.

On August 9th-11th from 10 AM to 4 PM at the Royal Adelaide Showground; over 30 participating organisations including eLabtronics were given the opportu-nity to showcase their interactive displays and activities allowing people to

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Switched On Science

On the 14th of August, eLabtronics came down to Elizabeth South Primary School where a total of 12 primary schools attended our work-shop. Every school picked or were assigned a different project which was going to be entered at a competition and judged by notable profes-sionals in their line of work. At this workshop the mentors of eLabtronics taught and men-tored students the basics of programming to provide the knowledge such that they could work on their projects. All the students were taught how to use eLabtronics ezSystem soft-ware as it is designed to be user friendly and easy to follow.

Such projects included an alarm for a fridge, an emergency call for a trapped farmer, water sani-tary, health awareness and other real life applica-tions. The students were all very enthusiastic, imaginative and eager to learn about program-ming, science and how to apply what they were learning to real life situations. In the end, the projects underwent early judging to announce the current winners and also provide feedback on the projects. This allowed the schools to come up with more ideas to further improve their projects on their own. The projects would then be re-judged at the Royal Adelaide Show to announce the official winners.

engage and understand what can be achieved through STEMSEL club. The eighth edition science expo not only occupied all of the Goyder Pavilion at the Adelaide Showground but was also ex-tended to the Duncan Gallery. By exhibiting to the people the wide range of scientific disciplines as well as relating it to the school curriculum; the pioneer engineers of the newly found STEMSEL Foundation were given the opportunity to present as well as engage by displaying magic from the STEMSEL controllers. The event was aimed at drawing more students to join the STEMSEL club.


Reaching Out to South Australia STEMSEL Club not only run workshops within the city of Adelaide, but also reach out to various schools in South Australia. The purpose of this was to promote the awareness of Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) that aims to ensure strong relationship and enhance respect with the Aboriginal community.

On the 15th of August, STEM-SEL club partnered with Engi-neers Without Border (EWB) on an excursion trip by visiting Glos-sop High School at Berri, River-land to run a one-day workshop as part of the Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) scheme. The young motivated students learned basic programming skills using the STEMSEL kits to implement LED control. By expanding on their knowledge built during the workshop, the class was divided into groups where each group were given a project to complete.

The projects involved exploring the creativity of each student allowing teamwork skills to be developed by making aboriginal paintings which include embedded LEDs to be displayed at the Royal Adelaide Show.

On 21st August, STEMSEL Club went to the Sacred Heart Primary School to conduct a workshop. The class consisted of 29 students which ran for 2 hours. By allowing them to undertake programming exer-cises using the STEMSEL kits, students were given projects that involved the application of developing an Energy Saving system.

On the 27th August, eLabtronics STEMSEL Club also visited John Pirie Secondary School in Port Pirie to run a workshop for 24 students. Students were given chance learn actual related projects focussing on the application of energy conservation.

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Reaching Out to South Australia

Northern Suburbs V-Tech STEMSEL Club

Students are given the chance to wire STEMSEL kits

eLabtronic had started the STEMSEL club at VTECH Automotive Training in Davoren Park as a partnership in the northern area. On 28th October, eLabtronic started the new beginners workshops and one of the workshops was run in VTECH. A holiday workshop was also conducted on 1st of Octo-ber and a total number of 13 students attended the workshop. During the workshop, STEMSEL Uni-versity mentors worked together with VTECH staff members to bring together microchips and auto-motive projects.


2013 Royal Adelaide Show With the success of the 2012 Royal Adelaide Show Exhibit there was an increase in amount of students at the STEMSEL Club. This year, the Royal Adelaide Show provided us with a huge 40m long exhibit area. To-gether with VTECH Automotive, Australian Science and Mathematics School and Physical Prints, we man-aged to bring new highlights to the Royal Adelaide Show.

Various activities were involved such as exhibiting students’ projects, running workshop for high school stu-dents, remote control soccer robot and 3D-printing.

The judges for the Royal Adelaide Show are shown to the left together with the STEMSEL CEO Peng Choo and Technical Man-ager Miroslav Kostecki. Also present are the pio-neer engineers of STEM-SEL Foundation. This years judging panel for the 2013 RAS innovative competition consisted of Fernando Gonzalez, Nkandu Beltz and Dr. YYK.

The wire-loop was a huge attraction at our ex-hibit as shown to the bottom right. Many peo-ple stopped by to enjoy our wire-loop game. As part of the challenge which was for free, those who finished within under 15 seconds won a microchip sponsored bag. Also dis-played at the RAS was the indigenous art LED display designed by high school students. The display portrays the RAP project of STEMSEL Foundation.


2013 Royal Adelaide Show—Gallery

Top Left: Fernando and Nkandu with the RAAF missile.

Bottom Left: Boomerang human conductor

Above: Quad-copter exhibit.

Below: Innovative marble sorter.

ezSystem STEMSEL Competitions

This Year, STEMSEL Club held multiple competitions which were;

Control Circuits and Programming�The Egg Incubator, UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), Robotics (Line Following), Robotics (Soccer via Remote Control), Innovative Invention and Enterprise Competition (Junior and Adult), Innovative Invention and Enterprise Competition (Junior Team).

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This year the innovative competitions ex‐panded for the certain age group levels rang‐ing from primary students to adults. During the span of the RAS, the judges; Fernando Gonzalez, Nkandu Beltz and Dr. YYK joined together to observe and moderate the competitions as well as the inventions exhibited at the Duncan Gallery. The inven‐tions were praised and the most out‐standing and astonishing designs were se‐lected from 1st place to 3rd.


As part of the on going connection of STEMSEL workshops in schools, various high-schools came down to the exhibition to partake in a RAS workshop. The workshop involved giving students a basic knowledge of STEMSEL as well as having them work together as a team to go through their projects. The process was done in order to spread the awareness of the STEMSEL clubs as well as to demonstrate to visitors what the young motivated children of STEMSEL club are doing.

WORKSHOPS at Royal Adeliade Show


One of the exciting events STEM-SEL club hosted during the Royal Adelaide Show was the remote controlled soccer robot competi-tion. This involved guiding the soccer robots on the floor and try-ing to push as many balls into the goals. Additionally another task was given which involved having the robot move through a terrain before pushing the soccer ballsi nto the goals. Competition was judged by how many goals were scored as well as the time. The competition this year saw over 100 competitors.

3D‐Printing This year in partnership with the Australian Science and Mathematics School and Physical Prints; STEM-SEL club exhibited the vast growing technology of 3D-Printers. Demonstrations were shown on how plastic models were built as well as the difficulty and level the 3D-Printers can reach.

Soccer Robots

Above: STEMSEL Foundation logo printed by Physical Prints.

Left: 3D printers by the ASMS.

STEMSEL WORKSHOPS


International Radar Conference 2013

On September 9 to 12, SQNLDR Fernando Gonzalez conducted the I2013 International Radar Con-ference held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Adelaide in Hindley Street. The conference was attended by the STEMSEL Club, as well as young motivated students and participants from radar indus-tries in Australia and overseas. This year, Fernando demon-strated to the attendees the theo-ries and practices of radar tech-nology expanding on the grow-ing need towards education and research.

People were also given the oppor-tunity to voice their thoughts and participate in various demonstra-tions such as a radar simulation on a jet plane which was built by STEMSEL Club. Additionally STEMSEL Club designed and built a radar dish which was pro-grammed using STEMSEL to illus-trate the various radar scanning pat-terns.

Right: Fernando launching the Radar Conference

Below: Attendees at the confer-ence

Below: Students participate in a dem-onstration

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Our mission:

Boost the number of Aboriginal Students in Universities from 0.2% to 2% Boost the number of International students in Universities Improve the rankings of all South Australian Universities

Dr. Yunus As A Guest Lecturer

Fundraiser For Shaniece As Part Of RAP To Invite

Unique Internship Experience For University Undergraduates “Lucky I came to Adelaide.”

“Will not have experienced this in any other place.” “Will encourage students to study in Adelaide.”

~ Yuwen

“Never dreamt of working with accountants.” “Incredible networking opportunities.”

~ Ben (to start a STEMSEL club in California)

Holiday Workshops:

Wednesday 2nd or Wednesday9th October there will be a LEDfun soldering workshop. Students will use soldering skills to create LEDfun kit. This workshop is suitable for Year 5 and over. students will learn essential soldering skills to make electronics work properly. This workshop will be held at eLabtronics, 51 Byron Place, Adelaide 5000 from 10am to 1pm. cost is $35. This includes a LEDfun kit to take home.

Thursday 3rd or 10th October 2013, 9:30am to 3pm there will be a Energy Saving workshop. Students will design, build and program smart energy projects using STEMSEL kit. This workshop suits 8 years old and above. This workshop will be held at eLabtronics, 51 Byron Place, Adelaide 5000. cost is $50/person. Additional $100 to get a complete STEMSEL kit and full software. Bring a Windows laptop to install ezSystem software. Bring your own food and drinks for morning break and lunch. Hurry up and register! Limited place!

Tuesday 1st October there will be a VTECH North holiday workshop. Robo-angel Uni Students will teach you to create traffic lights, bike indicator lights and a wind power indicator. This fun workshop suits Year 4 upwards. Cost: $20 per person or $120 for workshop and STEMSEL Inventors Kit. This workshop will be held at VTECH Automotive Training, 14 Bishopstone Road Davoren Park SA 5113 from 9.30am to 3.30pm. ! Limited places!!

Term 4 Workshops all start 28th September

Beginner classes start Saturday 28th September for the new term and continue throughout the school term. New students build a fun and educational project each week. We lend you the ezSystem kit. $15 per session. Bring a Windows laptop if you have one. Workshop will be held in these places:

City: eLabtronics, 51 Byron Place, Adelaide 5000 (Saturday, 2pm to 4pm)

North: VTECH Auto, 14 Bishopstone Rd, Davoren Park, SA 5113 (Saturday 2pm to 4pm)

South: Hallett Cove School, Gledesdale Road, Hallett Cove, SA 5158 (Wednesday 4pm to 6pm)

Intermediate classes also start Saturday 28h September for the new term. They are held at eLabtronics, 51 Byron Place Adelaide from 12:00noon to 1:45pm, cost is $20 per session. If you have attended the beginner classes last term then you can progress to even more interesting projects involving climate change, sustainability and more social enterprise.

Advance classes start 2nd November for the new term. They are held at eLabtronics, 51 Byron Place Adelaide from 2pm to 4:30pm, cost is $25 per session. Students are adding microchips to a working car braking system for display at VTECH.

Please contact Miro (STEMSEL Club Coordinator) to enrol in workshops. We are happy to talk to parents with more than one child about discounts. Thanks.


Magic Squares: Fill In The Numbers

Number Riddle: What am I? Example 1:

If 9 is 4. What is 8? Answer: 5

Example 2:

If 1 is 3. What is 2? Answer: 3

Riddle 1: If 2 is 3. What is 5? Answer:



What am I? Answers: The answer is the number of letters.

Riddle 1: 4 Riddle 2:: 3 Riddle 3: 5

1 14 53 51 8 7 34 31 18 4 121 2 28

17 24 1 8 15

23 5 7 14 16

4 6 13 20 22

10 12 19 21 3

11 18 25 2 9

Tips:

- Solve the rule of the game using example before filling in blanks

- Always start with the number 1

Example 1:

Magic Squares: Answers: The rule is to that the sum of each row and column are equal.

8 1 6

3 5 7

4 9 2

Example 2:

MAGIC SQUARE PROBLEM

Science Technology Engineering Maths Social

Enterprise Learning (STEMSEL) is the focus of our

Club Workshops. We make this a fun, hands-on

problem solving experience. We try to make it

relevant to the students’ learning in schools.

eLabtronics invented a revolutionary technology

called STEMSEL to make the programming of

microchips simpler, to a level primary school

students can use their creativity to Design Build and

Program their own micro-controller projects.

Microchips or micro-computers are found in every

facet of society e.g. smartphones, cars, aeroplanes,

hospitals, water supplies etc. With STEMSEL,

imagination is the only limitation. STEMSEL gives

kids years of head start in a highly sought after

industry skill. A highlight is the STEMSEL

competitions and exhibitions at the Royal Adelaide

Show.

Check out our Web-site. www.stemsel.com

Club Membership The STEMSEL Member joining fee is $100. Membership subscription fee is $30 quarterly

(every 3 months – paid in advance). Member benefits: Priority Technical Help, Monthly

STEMSEL Club Members Newsletter, and new STEMSEL projects. 20% Member Discount on

STEMSEL equipment. Members are welcome to enrol in STEMSEL Academy Intermediate

and Advanced workshops. Past Group activities for STEMSEL Members include Royal

Adelaide Show competitions and exhibitions, upgrade of electronics of large size RAAF Orion

Aero-model plane, Quadrocopter Project, guest lectures and networking opportunities with

experts from RAAF, Engineers Australia, University professors, NASA supplier, Creative

thinker, etc.

Please contact Miroslav Kostecki (Miro) for Membership or to enrol in workshops. We are

happy to talk to parents with more than one child about discounts. Thank You.

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 82315966 or 0425868353

51 Byron Place Adelaide South Australia 5000

Phone: +61 8 8231 5966 Fax: +61 8 8231 5266 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.elabtronics.com

MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK!

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