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 Ashley Van Krieken Over 2020 and early 2021 YRTS engaged with staff from the Faculty of Creative Industries and ICT leading them through a Human Centred Design Thinking (HCDT) process to solve problems and create new ideas [links to earlier blog pieces]. This has continued with our Director Ashley Van Krieken training the […]

Yarra Ranges Tech School is a STEM-focused entity, which engages students to be prepared for above and beyond the years of 2021. This update will highlight the journey of Victor (Technology Support and Maintenance Officer YRTS), and Stefen (work experience student), from Kew High School. Stefens journey at YRTS took him through technology fit for […]

In late June we launched our Artist in Residence program with Jessica Coldrey. Jess spent 4 weeks in the tech school residing in a room utilizing the technology to assist her to create her artwork. Jess used the UR5 Robotic arm to program it to apply makeup and then used her photography to create the […]

We were very excited to be given the opportunity to go out to Mater Christi Christian College to deliver our Careers in STEAM presentation and workshop with our Artist in Residence Jessica Coldrey. Due to Covid and the restrictions we decided to take our Careers in STEAM talk to Mater Christi, when we arrived first […]

Written by Stacie Gibson Yarra Ranges Tech School teamed up with the Eastern Regional Libraries Lilydale branch to launch the Primary School STEAM Fair on Space in mid-May. This was launched as an afterschool event for primary school aged students with their caregivers. We had a variety of technologies available that allowed the students to […]

Written by Ashley Van Krieken Student and Teacher Engagement – Corey Tutt, 2020 Young Australian of the Year for New South Wales kicks off our Koorie Student Program In Term 2 of 2021 we launched our Koorie Student Program with the 2020 Young Australian of the Year for New South Wales and founder and CEO […]

Written by: Stacie Gibson On Wednesday March 17th we kicked off our 2021 event program, Women in STEAM, with Michelle – Developer Advocate & Product Specialist and Akansha – Security Technologist from Telstra. Everyone was a little nervous at the start, as this was our first face-to-face event since Covid. The students arrived all eager […]

Written by: Matthew Pattison Now that the first two days of the Design2Innovate Teacher PD are complete, we have the opportunity to look back, celebrate what has been achieved and look forward to get a clear picture of where Design2Innovate is headed. YRTS, with its new renovations, was an excellent venue and while we didn’t […]

Written by Stacie Gibson In 2020 we had no idea what would happen with our 2021 programs and bookings. Online delivery had its challenges – completely rewriting existing programs or developing new programs quickly to deliver to our keen partner schools. From a 2021 bookings perspective COVID also definitely made things different and we quickly […]

Written by: Zoe Green This week Matt and I have been working closely with facilitators from Monash Tech School and KIOSC, preparing delivery materials, content and, most importantly, the catering for our upcoming PD series Design2Innovate. The Design2Innovate PD aims to give teachers an immersive Human Centred Design experience where teachers will gain practical skills […]

Written by: Ashley Van Krieken National Science week was a big week for myself as the Director of Yarra Ranges Tech School and the entire team.  We launched our Women in STEAM series, celebrated the culmination of the Coronavirus Youth Design Challenge with our Partner School teams, began delivery of three of our new programs […]