About Billy
Billy loves building things. If it’s broken, he’ll fix it. If it works, he’ll improve it. If it definitely shouldn’t be touched… Billy’s already on it.
Most of his inventions do work — some unexpectedly, a few a little too well. Big ideas, bigger messes, total fun. Billy leads the STEM Root, where building, testing and inventing make thinking visible.
Big ideas. Bigger messes. Total fun!
Billy focuses on…
Building & Making
If it can be built, Billy’s building it.
Testing Ideas
Tries things out to see what happens.
Fixing & Improving
If it’s broken he’ll fix it; if it works he’ll improve it.
Fun facts
- Favourite colour
- Earthy Orange
- Favourite food
- Anything he can eat while building
- Favourite place
- The Workshop
- Best friend
- His toolbox (and the team!)
- Inventive
- Hands-on
- Persistent
- Curious
- Bold
For parents
How Billy helps your child grow
Building, testing, fixing and inventing — design thinking and how the world works.
Design & build thinking
Planning, building, testing and improving — the engineering design cycle, hands-on and at play.
Cause & effect
Exploring how things work — what makes them move, balance, stick or topple.
Investigation & experimentation
Asking questions, making predictions and trying ideas out to see what happens.
Curiosity through making
Materials, forces, structures and simple machines — discovering by building.
Aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Science & Technologies (STEM) and the EYLF.