Careers News
Futures Expo – Tuesday 21st July 2020
This year we have created the COVID edition 2020 Futures Expo program. Students will once again receive the insight from our Key Learning Areas to assist with the impending subject selection period in the following fortnight. Students will be well informed about the requirements and opportunities available for their 2021 timetable.
Parents can still speak with key Learning and Curriculum staff and Tertiary Providers in the evening. We will be encouraging families to forward questions to staff prior to the sessions though the chat function will also be available through the session. The timetable is as follows:
Further Year Level specific information will be emailed to families next week. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your campus Careers and VET Coordinator.
Screenteens School Holiday Workshop – Online
14 July 2020, 10:00 am - 16 July 2020, 1:00 pm
Online
Screenteens is Australia’s leading program for young adults between 12 and 16 years old who are interested in developing their performance skills for Film and Television. Whether you’ve recently signed up to an agency, or you want to begin your journey into professional acting, this Holiday Workshop is the ideal platform to brush up on your acting skills for working in the Film and Television Industry.
The School Holiday Workshop will equip students with the following industry tools:
- Learn to break down a scene
- Build a character from the ground up
- Find the truth in performing
- Learn to utilise props within a scene
- Develop your ability to take direction
- Master continuity by acting in front of the camera each week
- Learn to master your audition technique
Find out more, please click here.
The series of STEM Challenges is an opportunity for high school and college students from across Australia to participate in fun weekly STEM challenges set by a collaboration between the College of Science, the College of Health and Medicine, and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at The Australian National University.
Every Monday, the challenge will be released by email and be published on the website. Students will have one week to complete the challenge, with answers/photos due on Sunday of the same week.
Each challenges will draw on a different element of STEM, and may require you to take photos, answer questions or build/design something to complete the challenge.
The entries will be judged by a panel and voted on. The winning entry will receive a $25 Uber Eats voucher.
Find out more and enter here.
FYA Future Communities Challenge
Do you ever look around you and think, ‘this could be better’? Maybe something at home, in your local community or even bigger than that. The Future Communities Challenge is your chance to explore something that has been bothering you and your opportunity to do something about it your way!
The Future Communities Challenge is a free to access program for young people 12-25, that will support you to grow an enterprising mindset, better understand the issues around you and how to creatively respond to them.
The challenge offers you a unique opportunity for you to lead your own learning and apply enterprise skills to the issues you care about most. These skills and the experience from the Challenge can be applied in your everyday life including communication, creativity and problem-solving.
The challenge starts on Monday, 15 June 2020 and runs until Monday, 31 August 2020.
Find out more and enter here.
Ahoy ocean lovers! Do you have a big idea to help protect the Great Barrier Reef? Are you a salty sea scholar, a trending ‘Tuber, or an aspiring Attenborough?
Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef and James Cook University have joined forces to find our next generation of passionate and inspiring Reef RADicals. If you’re a school kid in Years 1 to 8 we want you to brainstorm your biggest idea, action or solution for the Great Barrier Reef and share it with us in a 90 second video.
You could go in the running to win some great prizes.
Entries are open until Sunday, 9 August 2020.
Find out more and enter here.
Design an Arcade Game Competition
Get involved in the Digital Technology Hub’s Arcade Game competition. Students are invited to create an arcade game, film the game in use and submit their videos to be in the running to win some great prizes.
Your game needs to:
- involve skill and chance
- include a scoring system
Your game could:
- be constructed from recycled materials, adhesives such as sticky tape and non-toxic glue, stiff cardboard, cor flute, plywood, marbles, string and other craft materials, or
- include electronic micro controller boards and electrical components such as LED's
- be digitally created using a computer program, for example Scratch, Tynker, Stencyl , Ruby or other programming environments, such as TaleBlazer.
Entries are open until 5.00 pm on Monday, 15 June 2020.
Find out more and enter here.
Melissa Dillon and Robyn Cardamone
Careers & VET Coordinators