Bendigo
Tech
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Bendigo's High Tech Education Hub

Secondary school students from the Bendigo area now have access to cutting-edge learning at the Bendigo Tech School, hosted by La Trobe University.

Education Newsletter - Term 4, 2024

Welcome to our Term 4 Education Newsletter.

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2024 Allied Health 'Come and Try Day'

On Thursday 1 August, we joined forces with the Goldfields LLEN, Bendigo Health, La Trobe University Rural Health School, RWAV - Rural Workforce Agency Victoria and Bendigo TAFE to deliver our third annual Allied Health 'Come and Try Day'.

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Education Newsletter - Term 3, 2024

Welcome to our Term 3 Education Newsletter.

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We've been experimenting!

We're always playing around with some new piece of tech here at BTS.
Hover over the icons below to see some of our latest experiments.

Meet Mini! The newest member of our team!

Watch this space to see how we use tech to track Mini.

Our website is connected to the weather

The video at the top of this page will change depending on the weather (and if it's night or day!). We're using some clever code, and an external weather service to achieve this.

Watering plants - one tech at a time!

We're a bunch of over & under waterers here at BTS - so we turned to tech to find a solution.

I'll have a techiato!

Tech and coffee - that's a combination we can all get behind.

Watch this space to see how we integrate our coffee machine with BTS.

Where industry and students collaborate to solve real-world problems

Bendigo Tech School will continue to emphasise the vital skills of STEAM needed by young people for the 21st Century. It will enhance the programs schools provide and help to prepare students for the jobs of the future.

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Programs

Emergency Bots

With a focus on coding, mechanical systems, and engineering design, students tackle a range of emergency missions using high-tech ground and air robots drones). Students are introduced to coding using block code and Python programming with both land- and air-based robots.

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Future Food Packaging

Students explore current issues relating to food packaging through the lens of the Circular Economy model before utilising lasercutters to prototype their own designs that address these real world problems.

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Digital Storytelling

Students are given the opportunity to get hands on with professional video and audio equipment to learn the art of storytelling through multimedia.

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Alternative Energies

Working in groups students are tasked with exploring renewable energy, design and model an alternative energy solution to be 3D printed and tested for efficiency.

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Future Cities, Future living

Using mixed reality technology, students plunge into a virtual environment and co-create a blueprint for an ideal sustainable city of the future. Students bring their city plan to life by utilising 3D modelling software and immersive augmented reality technology.

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Data Defenders: Hack-Proof Heroes

Think outside the box with this “Tech Taster” Escape Room. Students employ critical and creative thinking skills whilst immersed in a fun and engaging escape room experience.

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Expand your Reality - 360 Video Production

Students are no longer confined to the four walls of a classroom! In this program, students will be supported to create stunning yet simple 360 degree videos.

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Wear’s the Technology?

Design and code wearable or implantable sensor technologies to improve quality of life.

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Flat-Pack Housing

Use empathy, geometry, and vector-based design to create thermally efficient flat-pack shelter solutions for people experiencing homelessness.

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Explore your (Virtual) Reality

Students will explore the future uses and current implementations of Virtual Reality through this experience.

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AI Playground

Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are set to transform society, including how people work and learn.

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Algorithmic Art

Blending the physical world of pen plotting robotics and the digital with generative coding, students harness the power of technology to create amazing generative artworks.

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Circular Economy Solutions

Students will explore different existing food packaging options and what changes can be made going forward to move from a resource draining ‘take, make, waste’ linear system into a circular economy solution. Students will experience a presentation from Bendigo Foodshare to provide real world industry links and community context.

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Cyber Security

Students will work with industry partners to examine their security systems and participate in skill building activities that tie in directly with the key knowledge and key skills outline in the VCE study design.

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Renewable Energy Futures

Empower your students to design the renewable energy solutions for your community! The Renewable Energy Futures Is an embedded program for schools in Bendigo as well as regional and rural communities. This program can be delivered as a face to face program for students within the Bendigo area or supported remotely by the Bendigo Tech School team.

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Ag-Tech: Bushfoods

Through the use of sensor technology, students are introduced to the ever-growing agriculture industry.

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Deep Fakes - The Shallow World of AI

In teams, students work collaboratively to explore Artificial Intelligence and create their own deep fake.

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Explore Futures in Bushfoods

Unearth sustainable land use skills and bush food production through our Bush Foods and Traditional Landcare Online Microcredential.

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Illuminating Futures

Did you know millions worldwide are deprived of the basic human right to adequate lighting? The absence of safe and sustainable lighting sources casts a shadow on communities, hindering education, hampering health and dimming hopes for a better future.

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Contact us

Email:
[email protected]

Phone:
03 5444 7113

Address:
Level 3, Engineering & Technology Building,
La Trobe University,
Sharon Street, Flora Hill

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