Our coding squadron pilots at Ripley Valley State Secondary College have completed the designing aspect of their video games and mobile apps. They have designed the game interface for the maze games, snakes and ladders, Bull’s eye, and other applications with a great deal of precision. Our squadron club members are now keen to apply their algorithms and Python and AS3 codes to see their game working.  They are enthusiastic about testing their games and functional Android apps designed around the themes of cyber-safety, eSports, and digital footprints. Detecting syntactical and logical errors in making their games and apps will be their next greatest challenge. But that’s what they do in Coding Squadron Club….Solve problems and provide digital solutions.!!.

Scaling the rocket sizes to scaling the planets and animal sizes our students have come up with unique educational app ideas and they cannot wait to see their codes making wonders when developing functional Android Apps. These games offer entertainment and educate the intended audience to learn to make appropriate choices in the digital world. Students are also gaining firsthand experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) based decision making techniques when designing their Quizzes based on cyber safety and digital footprints. New students have joined the club recently hiking our Squadron club numbers. An incursion is planned for the coding squadron pilots at the end of this term where they will showcase their games and apps to each other and obtain feedback to improve them. With boosted enthusiasm our coding squadron pilots are keen to upload their game and apps at the National level Australian STEM Game competition and State level Queensland Premiers Coding Challenge 2021. After the submission of our Games and Apps for the competitions our Squadron Pilots will then begin to fly drones and control the robots applying their Python coding skills. While there are several students who have joined the RVSSC - Coding Squadron Club are proud of their achievements in Python coding there is still room for many to join. Our coding pilots at RVSSC are certainly flying high with confidence in term 2 with their coding skills and are ready for newer coding adventures.

Massive shout out to the awesome students that have represented RVSSC in esports. We have had some amazing achievements over the past semester. The Just Dance squad bringing home the silver medal, the Rocket League team placing third and the Mario Kart team having a blast of a day with one student placing third. Congratulations to all these students. We are looking forward to the future of esports here at Ripley.