DP 设计技术专业旨在培养具有国际视野的人才，他们对设计和技术世界的深入了解有助于我们共同守护地球，创造一个更美好的世界。

它侧重于分析、设计开发、综合和评估。理论与实践之间的创造性张力是设计科学学科群中设计技术的特点。

探究和解决问题是本学科的核心。文凭课程设计技术要求以文凭课程设计周期为工具，提供用于构建探究和分析问题、开发可行解决方案以及测试和评估解决方案的方法。在文凭课程设计技术中，解决方案可定义为学生独立开发的模型、原型、产品或系统。

DP 设计技术通过培养学生的批判性思维和设计技能，使他们能够实际应用，从而实现高水平的设计素养。虽然设计的形式多种多样，但它涉及在道德框架内有选择地应用知识。

UISG 计划周密的设计课程使学生能够培养创造性思维和批判性思维的实践技能和策略。

在 MYP 阶段，学生已经学会了如何正确使用各种工具，如激光切割机、3D 打印机、人工智能、机器人、Cricut 机和其他动手技术。当学生进入设计课程时，他们可以利用之前的设计技能，增加更多人体工程学方面的内容，使他们的设计更具目的性。

国际学校集团的机器人项目为探究计划增添了价值，其课程计划来自不同的项目，支持我们的PYP教育价值观。

The Early Years will be starting Matatalabs TaleBot Pro this year. This will introduce students to computational learning without using a screen. Learning by doing is made fun & engaging as learners enjoy interacting with the cute-looking cartoonish bot whose most attractive feature is its innocent googly eyes. UISG Early Years teachers incorporate basic concepts like; sequencing, conditioning, and debugging into their units by making use of the Tale-Bot as a teaching aid. It can dance, it can draw, and even tell stories. This combines the excitement of art and gamification experiences to track coding & debugging as the students learn. Some additional benefits are:

• • Coding fosters creativity
  • It forms the foundation for Math activities
  • Children become confident problem solvers
  • Coding improves storytelling skills
  • It builds computer literacy

Lower Primary Robotics room combines Wonder Robotics with Dash, Dot, and LEGO Robotics. Wonder Robotics, focusing on the K-5 interdisciplinary robotics program, is also housed in this space. Students can interact with Dash and Dot Robots to learn and experience computational learning. Wonder Robotics teaches students coding while enabling them to learn through tangible experiences. The Robotics program spans all interdisciplinary learning, and Wonder Robotics will teach students how to move forward by reinforcing the IB PYP design thinking principles. This play-based learning programming approach is integrated into various Units of Inquiry.

The UISG VEX Robotics Program for upper primary and secondary involves programming and engineering using the different IB Design Cycles (PYP and MYP). VEX competitions have noted that students in the IB who learn the Design Thinking process can collaboratively work together and build robotics that perform more accurately than teams without a Design Cycle. Beyond science and engineering principles, VEX encourages creativity, teamwork, leadership, and problem-solving among groups. It engages and inspires the STEM problem solvers of tomorrow!

UISG VEX IQ teams are in Y4-8 and our school is starting the VEX V5 competitions this year for Y9-12. They compete in various VEX and ACAMIS competitions throughout the year.