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Received: 14 February 2018

Accepted: 27 November 2018

First Online: 26 December 2018

Authors’ information

: TL (lead) is the Director of the STEM Education Research Centre at the University of Canberra.TL (second author) is the Assistant Director of the STEM Education Research Centre at the University of Canberra.MH leads the Hegarty Spatial Thinking Lab at the University of California Santa Barbara.

: This study received ethics approval from the University of Canberra Human Ethics Committee in addition to the Australian Capital Territory Department of Education, which oversees the district schools.Written consent was given from each school principal and teacher involved in the program.

: Consent for participation included consent for the publication of work samples provided in Additional file InternalRef removed of this submission.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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