Jessica Perry

Students Pitch Solutions Shark Tank Style at Bright Tank 18

You may have heard of Australian Business Week, where year 10 students aim to rescue a corporation and improve the share price, as this activity has been run for a number of years.  With an increasing focus on entrepreneurial education, Hayley Reid, Coordinator, Career Development and Personalised Learning, from Brighton Secondary School wanted to take […]

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Bright Tank 18 – get involved

Engaging Brighton High School students in an alternative to Australian Business Week, Bright Tank is focussed on solving real world problems for local businesses, startups and organisations, with a strong learner voice on solutions. Over the week, students help local businesses to leap forward in terms of addressing their problems, developing new or improving products/services,

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Future Jobs understood and 21st Century Capabilities developed by high school students

On Friday 16 November 2018 over 100 year 10 students from the Australian Science and Maths School headed to Adelaide for a Real Day Out. Students and teachers saw inside a variety of workplaces where there is significant opportunities for jobs growth.  This included SAHMRI, ThincLab at The University of Adelaide, Adelaide’s Smart City Studio,

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#STEM4Sunraysia

The #STEM4Sunraysia event held at SuniTAFE in Mildura over two days in October 2018, engaged high school students from across the region demonstrating an activation similar to a Tech School context, making connections with employers and industry, real world problem solving, and the future of jobs, skills and work.  Partners included SuniTAFE, Northern Mallee LLEN

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How Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality will change workplaces

Once a science fiction dream, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) has truly come to life. This fun, all-too-real technology is expanding into workplaces, changing jobs, how we work and how businesses operate. In seven years, virtual and augmented reality will become an $80 million industry. Workplace training, for example, is improved through virtual

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