South West Sydney Sustainnovation Challenge, organised in collaboration with Wollondilly Shire Council and local high schools, kicked off last week. The challenge aimed to connect with the community through data and art, and after two days of hard work, students from Picton High School emerged as winners with their project “Unity Within Our Community – A voice for all.” The …
South-West Sydney, Australia – With just a couple of weeks away, the South-West Sydney Sustainnovation Challenge Series team is excited to announce the upcoming City of Canterbury Bankstown Sustainnovation Challenge: Creating Places Where Women and Girls Feel Safer, an innovative and creative challenge for secondary students across the region. In collaboration with the City of Canterbury Bankstown, Transport for NSW, …
With industry and government support, and advocacy, the NSW Department of Education created Australia’s first, in-curriculum, Cyber Security course. The new Cyber Security course is embedded, as a ‘Specialised Topic’, in Stage 5 (years 9 & 10), NSW Department of Education Approved iSTEM Elective which was publicly released in December 2021. Designed by the MCB Business Partners Newconomy Learning Resources …
MCB Business Partners, from 2019-2021, takes a lead role in developing and activating the state-wide industry engagement strategy for the NSW Department of Education flagship and award-winning regional STEM program, STEM Industry Schools Partnership Program (SISP). “Duncan has a great understanding of curating and activating programs in the education-industry-government relationship space. He has developed an impressive network of government, industry …
As part of the NSW Curriculum Reform, Stage 5 (years 9 and 10) school-developed board-endorsed courses have been phased out in 2022. The only course to survive and be part of a suite of approved elective courses for year 9 and 10 students is Integrated STEM (iSTEM) MCB Business Partners, a recognised contributor to the new Department approved iSTEM course, …
MCB Business Partners takes the lead in creating a collaborative framework for education, university students and industry to work together, creating an immersive Biomedical Innovation learning sequence for year 9 and 10 students. In March 2020, the NSW Government was reaching out to the leading R&D and Engineering companies across NSW to find businesses with the competence and capability to …
Merewether High School – Pitch idea: OfficeGreen 2:59Bishop Tyrrell Anglican College – Pitch idea: ReBuildAbles 11:17Hunter School of the Performing Arts – Pub to Produce 18:30Newcastle Grammar School – EcoMed 26:10Judges wrap up 38:55 At our most recent City of Newcastle Sustainnovation Challenge we had students from across the city dive into the problems and challenges that the hospitality, construction …
Congratulations to the Hunter School of The Performing Arts students who took out top position for the City of Newcastle Sustainnovation Challenge #2 – How do we remove the barriers to Newcastle and Hunter Businesses recycling or using recycled products? Their idea ‘Pub To Produce’ was inspired after chatting with Michael Starkey, local hotelier and President of the Newcastle & …
This week we started rolling out the 2022 City of Newcastle Sustainnovation Challenge program. In today’s Newcastle Herald I had a quick look back at what has happened since we launched in 2021 and set the scene as to where we are heading in early 2022
The two-day virtual workshop includes a series of preparation and discovery sessions with industry specialists before students create and then pitch their problem-solving ideas to a judging panel. The City of Newcastle Sustainnovation Challenge is a community capacity-building project involving education, industry, community, and city leaders who volunteer their expertise and mentor students to help develop a workable and sustainable …