The Yarra Ranges Tech School, Rail Design Challenge invited students from years 7 to 12 within the Yarra Ranges region to participate in a rail-related project. The Design Challenge allowed student groups to create a railway for the future, using advanced technology and design to showcase their final concepts to a judging panel. This challenge […]

Year 7 and 8 students from Worawa Aboriginal College and Upper Yarra Secondary College attended Yarra Ranges Tech School over term 2 and 3 for a specially designed program, The Council Community Program. This program was collaborated between YRTS and Yarra Ranges Council, ‘Hearing the Voices of Yarra Ranges Youth’. Students were posed with the […]

Written by Bridget O’Leary I was privileged to have been a mentor for an awesome team of dedicated and intelligent staff from Box Hill Institute (BHI), called the Change Pioneers which were the winners of the Champions Program, or should I say the Champions of the Champions. Yet, this program was not about winning, this […]

Written by Ashley Van Krieken Over the 30th and 31st of March the Generate 22 Conference was held at the Lilydale Lakeside Campus. Working closely with our industry partners Exaptec (conference organiser) and ANCA Engineering (Principal Sponsor) we developed a student program to complement the formal conference.  More than 150 students attended this program across […]

Bees with Backpacks is a program that gives students hands-on experience working with bees, technology and having a direct involvement in saving them from extinction. This program is part of a partnership between Victoria’s Tech Schools, CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency and local beekeepers and industry. In term 4 students across the 10 tech schools […]

Throughout Term 2 and Term 3, students were challenged to design solutions to local pandemic related problems including those from isolation, social issues and/or stress. This required the students to apply design thinking principles including empathy, understanding target audiences and, how to pitch their ideas. Students working, either in teams or individually presented their problem […]