The world is always so focused on Silicon Valley as the tech hub of the world and many countries aspire to be like them. Some people worry that Australia is being left behind and we’ll be a nation of redundant miners in the near future however today we can assure you that this is not going to be the case.
EFTM Lifestyle Editor, Geoff Quattromani attended the Young ICT Explorers event in Sydney today as one of many judges. Young ICT Explorers is a programme that runs across Australia bringing students from primary and secondary schools to compete with technology based projects. The Sydney event brought together over 200 students (the majority being female!) from 32 schools. We had the category for years 5 and 6. Yes, 11 and 12 year olds. We were blown away. Here are some examples:
These three kids have done a few things here. They’ve 3D printed and built (from parts) a flying drone. They’ve then planned on adding a thermal camera on the drone which will beam temperatures from bush fires to a website, enabling fire departments to fully understand what they are dealing with.
This is a mere example of the huge amount of entries that were presented today. The most impressive part of today was the story behind each project. The ideation process. These students were solving real world problems that they identified. The courage and charisma from the students is energising. It is extremely exciting to see what kids so young are able to dream and achieve and it completely reassured me that Australia’s technology industry is well and truly alive.
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