Penrhos College Year 4's Advise the Boffins

From The Penrhosian, Autumn 2001

A group of year four girls from Penrhos College, WA, has been thrilled by an invitation to collaborate in a project with Fun-Ed, an educational computer game company. You can even view our students work on Fun-Ed's website, www.fun-ed.com.

A group of year four girls from Penrhos College, WA, has been thrilled by an invitation to collaborate in a project with Fun-Ed, an educational computer game company. You can even view our students work on Fun-Ed's website, www.fun-ed.com.

Lauren Bourke, Tess Cochrane, Emily Davies, Shenae Marsh, Anna McCarthy, Rachael Pantin, Cheyenne O'Callaghan and Cherie Vaz have formed a junior advisory board to work with the creators of a mathematics CD ROM called eVac-U8.

The group has met the designers, the program writers, educational consultants and game writers to provide constructive criticism before the program goes into production. Meanwhile, all Year 4 students are having fun and learning mathematics concepts through classroom use of the CD ROM, as well as learning PowerPoint and the spreadsheet program, Excel.

The class has recently established an email link with a British school involved in a similar project.