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Secondary school students form the Gippsland area will have access to cutting edge learning at the Gippsland Tech School, hosted by Federation Training.
The school will emphasise skills need for the 21st century, including vital science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills.
[James Chrisp, Architect, Vincent Chrisp & Partners]
I think the early phase is the most exciting part. It’s putting all of what might appear to be unrelated and disconnected pieces of information together to come up with a design outcome which then allows all of those elements to meld into one design solution. The key elements that we know of that we will certainly incorporate will be things like showcase spaces, industry spaces, discovery rooms, advanced manufacturing spaces, 3D augmentation and those sorts of things.
[Teacher]
Back in my day, tech schools were all trade orientated. Now we’re looking at STEM; science, maths, technology, engineering and mathematics. So we’re looking at that higher end stuff, where we can be looking at getting kid’s educational needs and skills probably for jobs that are not even out there yet, and it’s not only a challenge for the kids, it’s a challenge for us, it’s a challenge for our teachers.
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Co-Design Workshop
[Teacher]
With the co-design workshops and watching how the kids developed them - because they developed what the school should look like - not us, you know. They chose mentoring, they chose lots of areas where they want to work.
[Nathan Britt, Student, Kurnai College]
I was a big supporter of the exchange program, which is when employees and hiring managers from businesses would come into the tech school and see how the students worked because we feel there’s definitely a gap between students and workers, and we want to bridge that gap.
[James Chrisp, Architect, Vincent Chrisp & Partners]
I’m probably too old, but most of the world is all highly in that technological space, so we want to make sure that the students - not only are they aware of it - but have a chance to touch it, feel it, engage with it. And that’s the thing that will make a positive contribution to them, learning and hopefully furthering their technology experience through education more broadly.
[Teacher]
They want to work beyond the traditional education boundaries. They want to work different hours of education. It’s exciting times for us all.
The video ends with the Victorian School Building Authority logo and website URL (www.schoolbuildings.vic.gov.au).
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