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Our Year 9 unit on sustainability finishes this week with the students having explored their focus areas for the past 6 weeks. Our community mentors have revisited their cohorts in viticulture, paddock to plate, regional wellbeing, agri-innovation and Orange 360 to assess their progress on creating a documentary, TED-Ed talk or magazine article for the Central Western Daily. A selection of these will appear in the next bulletin. Below is a photo of James Robson from Ross Hill Wines being interviewed by the students on how being carbon neutral helps limit climate change.

Wired for Wonder

Year 9 and 10 IST attended the ‘Wired for Wonder’ conference in Sydney last week, during which they heard from a series of inspirational speakers on emerging trends and creative ideas for the future. The commonwealth bank kindly sponsored our attendance.

Molong Show

Our cattle team had a great day at the Molong Show on the weekend as they prepare for their visit to the Scone Beef Bonanza early next term. Taylah Hobbs (Year 7) continued her success from Parkes by taking out champion parader, whilst Hugo Bartlett came 2nd in junior judging and Lily Davies-Etheridge collected several ribbons in her first outing for the year.

Gateway

40 students from Year 9 attended the GATEway conference at the NSW Department of Primary Industries to learn about the future of agri-technology in Australia. The day began with a variety of workshops in the morning on gaming, virtual reality, blockchain and the use of drones and sensors in agriculture. Following this the students heard from Andrew Logan, CEO of OneCrop, regarding his journey into entrepreneurship. UNSW provided an entertaining lunch break during which many of the students built solar powered cars and had a play on the virtual reality excavators and front end loaders. The final session of the afternoon was a design thinking workshop facilitated by Tom Riley from KWS and the Commonwealth Bank. The students from different schools in Orange were mixed together and their task was to design the next big game in agriculture. KWS students were instrumental in designing each of the games put on the podium, including ‘Pro Bull Riding’ and ‘Ag Australia’.

Archibull

It is all hands to the pump to finish our archibull submission before the deadline of Thursday! This week the students have cut the shearing shed floorboards for the stage, clothed the mannequins for the catwalk, finished painting the shearing of the rams, completed the animation and loaded it onto the tablet built into the ‘bull’, affixed the spinning wheel and finished yarn bombing for the legs! If you’d like to follow their progress, check out their own blog https://kwsarchibull2018.weebly.com

Co-Curricular TREE – The Farmers Market Team

Applications for TREE as a summer co-curricular will close shortly. Anyone interested in being involved must see Mrs Bilton before the end of Week 9.

Mr Tom Riley

Director of TREE