UNLEASHING SECONDARY STUDENTS’ CREATIVE THINKING – CREATING PLACES WHERE GIRLS & WOMEN FEEL SAFER
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 […]
Picton High School Students Win South West Sydney Sustainnovation Challenge #1 with a “Voice for All” idea
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 – […]
Kurri Kurri High School team wins Newcastle Sustainnovation Challenge
A team of Kurri Kurri High School year eight students have won the Newcastle Sustainnovation Challenge, and now their idea could be made a reality by City of Newcastle council. The team travelled to the University of Newcastle’s Q Building on June 15 and 16 to answer the question; how do we get our cities […]
Barriers to business recycling 2022: Student Pitches
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 and health service industries face when it comes to recycling. The video here is the ideas, ‘pitches’, that the students came up with after ‘1 day!’ of diving into […]
And That’s A Wrap – City of Newcastle Sustainnovation Challenge #2
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 […]
Sustainnovation Challenge helping region’s young minds lead the way
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. Opinion: Duncan Burck Last year I outlined the launch […]
Students challenged to reduce recycling barriers
Newcastle high school students are being tested to come up with innovative solutions for local businesses to increase recycling during the second Sustainnovation Challenge on 2-3 March. 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. […]
Community innovation leaders applaud students’ visionary inclusivity program
How do we make Newcastle more accessible and inclusive for everyone in our community? This was the question that Newcastle’s innovation leaders challenged students from Bishop Tyrrell Anglican College to answer at the City of Newcastle Sustainnovation Challenge. Bishop Tyrrell students Megan Williams, Eli McLean-Phillips, and Khiera Bartlett rose to the challenge through a weeklong […]