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Featured Video: Edmund explains how to get a rocket in to orbit in Kerbal Space Program.  By Lach Howarth Edmund is one of our regular Clubhouse members. He’s eleven years old, and attends regularly. Edmund loves Minecraft, Kerbal Space Program, Origami, Coding, Rube Goldberg machines and more! We caught up with Edmund to chat about what […]

By Lach Howarth   Some exciting opportunities have been emerging from the YWCA Canberra Clubhouse.  This top 5 list compiles some of the most exciting and innovative ideas and startups that members have developed in no particular order. 1. South Side Seeds South Side Seeds is a small business developed by an 11 year old member, […]

Over the past year we’ve been lucky to have Ciāra Duggan, a senior youth worker with the YWCA Canberra, as part of our team at the Clubhouse. Ciāra has a background in community service, 3D animation, film and more, and we’re very excited to have her on board! We asked Ciāra a few questions: Can you tell […]

By Lach Howarth Featured image: Building Rube Goldberg machine elements at the YWCA Canberra Clubhouse. The second week of our January school holiday program was Rube Goldberg week! We spent 3 days designing and constructing a Rube Goldberg machine in the Clubhouse from a wide range of materials we’d managed to collect from around the […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: Clubhouse members creating paper cup helicopters to launch on a fan at Questacon. This school holidays we took seven of our members on an excursion to Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre. Questacon has over 200 interactive science and technology attractions as well as interactive shows designed to inspire […]