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Montello Primary School is set for a technological re-vamp, thanks to a $33,000 boost from Google. The money will be directed towards a ‘Makerspace’, a classroom equipped for hands-on, advanced science, technology, engineering and mathematics lessons in a bid to build capacity in students across emerging fields. The donation was made made through Schools Plus, a national education charity that has a standing relationship with Montello Primary School. The classroom is not yet complete, but the new STEM studies have already begun, Montello principal Denise Wotherspoon said. “It’s been an added incentive for many of our disengaged kids to actually come to school,” Ms Wotherspoon said. “It’s a different sort of learning, it’s 21st Century stuff that we’ve never been able to do before. “They’re…
