Design and Innovation Day

I’m Mia McWilliams and I am a student leader (sports captain) in Year 8.

The year 8’s had the privilege to have some fantastic guest speakers and participate in a variety of activities at our school for the Design and Innovation Day, held on June 17th, at the end of last term.

Etienne Reinhold and Brayden Hilbert who are also student leaders, helped me out with greeting all our guests and introducing them to the year 8’s who were assembled in the Design Centre for the day.

Our speakers were Martin Dixon MP, Stephen Huxley Acting Dean of Swinburne University, Laura Murphy from DATTA.VIC, Simon Mulvany from Save the Bees and two young guys from Swinburne, Adam Carr and Nuwan Ranasinhe, who are both students in the design and engineering courses.

It was a great day as all students had the chance to participate in a number of workshops including the Sustainability of Bees and the effect of new technology on their habitats, Sphero Balls, Introduction to 3D Printing, Lego and Robotics, Creating Websites, Wearable Technology, Living Spaces with Google Sketch up and Food photography.

took part in the ‘Sustainability of Bees’ activity where Simon Mulvaney brought in some of his delicious honey for us to taste and spoke about how multimillion dollar companies, through GM modified crops, weed spraying glysophates and harmful chemicals and ‘thinning out’ honey and replacing it with corn syrup are literally killing bee populations worldwide.

Overall it was a fabulous day and I’m happy that it was a great success