January

For the second year running Lindfield Public School has claimed national honours in the RoboCup Junior Australia Open Dance Competition, an event that requires students to design, construct and program robots to complete a choreographed routine. Read more here.

Gifted students at Budgewoi Public School are receiving a creative boost to their education from a specially designed enrichment program. Find out more.

Students from Katoomba High School have swapped swimming caps for hard hats, cricket whites for bright yellow uniforms and use sports afternoons to train as NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) cadets. Read more here.

Smart students are being given greater opportunities to achieve academically with more than 600 new selective school places being made available in NSW public high schools in 2010. Learn more here.

Cross-generational understanding is being encouraged in some Hunter and Central Coast region schools with Year 10 students being matched with residents from local aged-care facilities. Find out more.

If there’s a complex way to do something simple, the Year 3 and 4 students at Epping North Public School know all about it. They have been coming to grips with pulleys, wedges, inclined planes and screws in the design and construction of Rube Goldberg “cause and effect” machines. Read more here.

Broadcasting a radio program is harder than it sounds but a group of Year 9 students at Camden High School is filling the airwaves twice a week. Learn more here.

Students from Sydney region high schools have helped cut their school energy bills by up to one-third in an environmental challenge held last term. Find out more.