RMIT ANALYTICS COMPETITION

Once again, students from Kew High School performed strongly in the annual Analytics Competition at RMIT University, finishing in third place in the high school division.

In a marathon day starting at 8:00 am, the team, consisting of Howard Aitken, James Damatopoulos and Jackie Hongmung, spent the morning trawling data in relation to aged care in Australia and around the world.

Using SAP Lumira software, students created presentations that analysed the data that looked at trends and, in some cases, suggested solutions to emerging problems in this sector. One interesting aspect of the presentations was to see how each team identified different problems or proposed different solutions from the same sets of data. For example, Kew High School focussed on institutional aged care, whereas students from Box Hill High School (who won the high school division of the competition) focussed on at-home care.

By making their own presentation and watching others’, students were able to gain a deeper understanding of an emerging issue in Australia. Most pleasing was to see the smiles on the faces of the students as they left at close to 6:00 pm with comments on how much they’d enjoyed the challenging day.

Chris Paragreen

Information Technology Teacher