SRC Brimbank Young Researchers Program

Throughout the year, six students across year 7 to year 9 participated in the SRC Brimbank

Young Researchers Program. This program is designed to help students improve both their

leadership and research skills. The program took place across 4 sessions along with other

schools.

During the first session of this program, students were introduced to Brimbank youth service organisers and mentors of the program and went through some fun activities as an

introduction to the program. We were given the task of coming up with our research project

topic which we chose ‘Attitudes to School’. We chose this research topic as we found it an

interesting and not previously covered topic that we wanted to learn more about. In our

second session, we learnt about how we would collect the raw data we needed by interviewing

 others with our carefully designed interview questions. We chose to interview a campus Principal, a parent and two students as we found that this would help provide us

with the necessary data we needed for the research project. The next phase was

interviewing our interviewees, collecting the data and transcribing the responses to help

keep it confidential.

Once we finished our third session, we started to work on our final presentation. We spent

multiple sessions fine tuning our final presentation by using all the data at hand . In these meetings, we created the slideshow and practised our speeches for delivery, getting

ourselves ready to present our findings of the reseach toThe Brimbank Council Mayor,

Councillors, Principals and teachers of secondary schools, families, Brimbank Young

Researchers team and mentors. For our final presentation session, we travelled to

Sunshine. We delivered a stunning presentation that we are extremely proud of. We even

had the opportunity to present our data to the school in the campus assembly. We had an

excellent time and have learnt so much about researching, analysing data, compiling into

research report and presenting.

The SRC team would like to thank Mr Dagher for accompanying us and to Mr Mugam for

organising all of the meetings and helping us make a stunning presentation. I would highly

recommend everyone to apply for SRC and the Brimbank Young Researchers Program.

Julia Portelli 

SRC 7E2