Unveiled in 2024, the STEAM Precinct offers students opportunities to learn, collaborate, explore, and innovate across Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics - within a state-of-the-art environment unlike any other in an Australian high school.
From artistic experimentation and prototyping to 3D printing, robotics, and complex biological dissections, students are equipped with the tools and mindset to tackle real-world challenges.
STEAM is more than just cutting-edge facilities. It represents a shift in how we teach, learn, and prepare our boys for an unpredictable future.
Situated at the western end of the School’s Spring Hill campus, the six-storey 17,800m2 hub provides students with opportunities to learn and collaborate in a state-of-the-art environment.
During the planning and construction phase, the School made the deliberate decision to broaden the educational and innovational offerings for students of the modern era by opting to build a contemporary STEAM Precinct, opposed to simply offering traditional STEM subjects.
STEAM combines Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics, while STEM explicitly focuses on scientific topics. STEAM investigates the same concepts but does this through inquiry and problem-based learning methods used in the creative and artistic process.
STEAM equips students with multi-disciplinary skills, providing them with a range of hands-on experiences, including artistic and technological exploration, designing and prototyping, 3D printing, complex biological dissections, earth science studies and much more.
The STEAM Precinct encourages openness, discussion, questioning, conversation and research; it provides the best possible facility for the teaching and learning of STEAM disciplines.
Headmaster, Anthony Micallef
Key features of the precinct:
- Spread across 17,800m2
- 15 innovative laboratory spaces of university standard
- A specialised laboratory for biological dissections
- Art studios and purpose-built kiln room
- 300-seat open auditorium with space for robot competitions, artistic displays and anthropological artefacts
- Three overhanging learning pods
- Interchangeable physics, chemistry, mathematics, technology, design and art classrooms where teachers across different disciplines can work together.
Award Winning Precinct
The precinct, designed by Wilson Architects, has won the following awards:
- 2024 AIA QLD Jennifer Taylor Award for Educational Architecture
- 2024 AIA QLD Commendation for Interior Architecture