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By Lach Howarth Featured Image: Some of the 3D Prints created in the YWCA Canberra Clubhouse This week at the Clubhouse there has been a lot of 3D design and printing happening. We’ve had animals, team logos, symbols, buildings and more custom 3D designed and 3D printed by members and it’s been a lot of […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: Clubhouse members attending the BiG Day In   The YWCA Canberra Clubhouse was lucky enough to be able to take three of our high school members to the BiG Day In last Thursday, the 25th of May. “The BiG Day In™ is an IT careers conference designed by students for students. […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: Tech Time Workshop participants begin construction on a Lego Mindstorms EV3 This semester we’re running a series of Tech Time Workshops; an intro to robotics course using Lego Mindstorms EV3s for 12 particiapants, 6 male and 6 female, from Caroline Chisholm School. There are 6 sessions in which the participants […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: Clubhouse members and mentors celebrating International Women’s Day This year, for International Women’s Day, the YWCA Canberra Clubhouse hosted a girls-only celebration focusing on all the amazing things women do in science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM) fields. The day featured female mentors and staff showcasing some of the amazing […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: Angus, age 13, tees off at the 2nd hole at the Eddison Park Disc Golf Course. The Clubhouse January 2017 School Holiday Program is well underway! With the first week (Jan 3rd – 7th), our crafts week, having finished, we started the 2nd week with an excursion day! We started at […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: Full page Sharpie doodle by Nikki, age 13 This week in the Clubhouse we have been doing a lot of sharpie doodles, in particular full page pictures have been popular. A full page sharpie doodle involves using a sharpie to fill a page completely with characters, patterns, words, shapes or […]

Louise is one of the YWCA Canberra Clubhouse’s Work Experience mentors. Louise is completing her and completed her 80 hour placement with the YWCA Canberra Youth Engagement Team and Clubhouse. It was a pleasure having Louise with us and we caught up with her to chat about her experience at the YWCA Canberra Clubhouse. How did […]

(Originally published on the YWCA Canberra blog.) Mieka Vigilante is a Director of Fashion for FASHFEST – what she calls, “the business of dreams”. FASHFEST, a Canberra-based fashion show now in its fourth year, aims to cultivate modern, emerging fashion, design and creative talent. FASHFEST has a focus on encouraging participation from young people, either as fashion students […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: Daleks invade Science in ACTion Last Friday and Saturday (12th and 13th of August), the YWCA Canberra Clubhouse was at Science in ACTion to celebrate National Science Week. Science in ACTion is a free event consisting of stalls from local, national, and international STEM organisations showcasing their work, as well as demonstrations, hands-on activities, […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: YWCA Canberra Tech Time Workshops’ participants show young members of the audience how to control their robots, and let the try them.  I talked a bit about what the Tech Time Workshops were in our last blog – Tech Time Workshops – Part I, and since then we’ve had the […]