Hands-on activities have sparked curiosity and wonder at Monash Children’s Hospital during National Science Week.
Staff from Monash Children’s Hospital School set up interactive learning activities in the foyer, encouraging minds of all ages to decode the world around them.
Children operated a program on a tablet to drive robotic spheres around a track, trying to get them to roll over jumps.
With an invention kit, playdough connected to a laptop was turned into a piano keyboard 
Children were exposed to the joys of programming while making courses for a car-shaped robot 
They laid different coloured tiles on the floor for the Sphero indi to drive over. Each colour gave the car an instruction - speed up, turn left, stop and light up. Getting the car from point A to point B was a problem-solving exercise!
‘The kids have been really into it, and even the parents! The parents say, “Wow, I wish science was like this when I was at school!”’ said Monash Children’s Hospital teacher, Suzanne Kenneally.
