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Ingrid McCarthy is the Inspiring Australia ACT program manager, a position that is based at the Canberra Innovation Network.  It is an umbrella organisation for a variety of different organisations. Ingrid explains, “Canberra Innovation Network is an initiative of the ACT Government, but it incorporates so much more. It is about building an innovation ecosystem […]

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 […]

By Lach Howarth Over the last few weeks we’ve been putting together a short documentary on the benefits on working in partnership with schools, in particular conducting outreach sessions in to schools and having schools come out to the Clubhouse during school hours. The documentary looks at the benefits that the Clubhouse brings to the […]

We’ve been having a fantastic time these school holidays making lots of new projects and trying new ideas. There has been a lot of painting happening in the Clubhouse with both watercolours and acrylic paints. We have also been making slime from corn flour and water. This slime is a fantastic non-Newtonian fluid that behaves […]

By Emily Hollosy Image: Hala (far right) at the opening of our AV Studio, with Frances Crimmins, Executive Director YWCA Canberra; Minister Joy Burch; Sherri Lake, Executive Teacher, Richardson Primary School; and Heidi Zajac, YWCA Canberra Board Director. Hala Batainah is an ambassador for the YWCA Computer Clubhouse and Federal Director of Microsoft. She talks […]

After last week’s challenge day, “Photoshop someone to look crazy!, we have had a lot of fantastic Photoshopped images created. Tom and Leroy, two of our members, have been particularly busy creating lots of funny pictures. Have a look through some of their work and let them know what you think!