St Stithians scored a double-podium finish when three of its learners took home prizes at the Excellence in Education Awards earlier this month. The awards are described as a vehicle for both learners and teachers to creatively explore and bring the curriculum to life using Apple technology.
Two Grade 6 boys prep learners, Abulele Tanga and Sahil Maharaj, under the guidance of their teacher Kirsty Sidwell, won the coding challenge with their entry of a mobile app called Pet Finder. “My boys were tasked to come up with an app prototype which they created in Keynote. Their app needed to have a place in their everyday lives, something that would help people,” Sidwell said.
“This app worked on the concept that your pets would be micro-chipped with a GPS tracking system and if they were lost you could then track them on the app. Although the app was made using Keynote, when played it looked like a functional app with ‘loading’ GIFs to images of Google Maps when their pets were located,” she added.
Girls’ college learner Gabrielle De Abreu and her teacher Bronwyn Myles placed third in the Grade 8 to 12 Artistic Excellence category for ‘Drawing with Paper’. For the artistic category learners were given the opportunity to express themselves through the arts with the use of Apple technology.
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