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By Lach Howarth This Wednesday we celebrated the opening of the Light and Grain exhibition at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre. The exhibition consists of twelve black and white, silver  gelatine photographs, hand printed by Lake Tuggeranong College students in partnership with PhotoAccess and the YWCA Canberra Computer Clubhouse. The program was run across 8 weeks […]

Yesterday the YWCA Canberra Computer Clubhouse went out to visit the  Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex (CDSCC), which is part of NASA’s Deep Space Network. We had a fantastic tour of the facilities, starting with a guided look at the 70m telescope, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere as well as the radio telescope that received the […]

Friday is big project day at the YWCA Canberra Clubhouse. That means there’s always a lot of hands on creation along side video, music and digital projects. We had a some awesome big projects being worked on last Friday including a Cobblestone wall generator for Minecraft, “Deal with it” glasses, video recording, rockets in Kerbal […]

On Saturday the 22nd of August, Cameron, participated in his second work experience opportunity with Coordinate where he attended the CBR Brave vs Sydney Ice Dogs game and shot some photographs from the booth where the live streaming crew sit. Ice Hockey is one of the most difficult sports to photograph due to the indoor lighting, […]

Last Friday the YWCA Canberra Computer Clubhouse and eight members attended the ACT National Science Week’s Science in ACTion event at the  Former Transport Depot (Old Bus Depot)in Kingston. It was a fantastic day with our members able to interact with many key players in STEM industries. The YWCA Canberra Computer Clubhouse stall was a […]

Last Saturday one of our members, Cameron, had the fantastic opportunity to have some work experience with Murray from Coordinate and Paul, the resident photographer for the CBR Brave. He was able to attend the CBR Brave vs Adelaide Adrenaline game and shoot some photographs from the net-free press area. Ice Hockey is one of […]

After a fantastic time at the 2015 Annual Conference, it’s great to be back in Australia and I’m ready to start trying out some new ideas in the Clubhouse. After having seen some of the brilliant work on display I really want to start encouraging more hands-on making in our Clubhouse. Here are a few […]

This week at the Clubhouse Kerbal Space Program has been very popular. Kerbal Space Program is a computer program that simulates the solar system and allows users to design, launch and control spaceships. Lach set the challenge for anyone to work out how to orbit Kerbin (the equivalent of Earth) and we had a few […]

This week we had a very exciting Skype call with the Naenae Computer Clubhouse in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It was fantastic to see our members having conversations with Clubhouse members from another country, discussing everything from the weather to projects they’re working on, from their favourite programs to use to the time difference, and […]

We had a fantastic time at the Clubhouse this week with lots of cool projects happening. Some particular highlights are the Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) video project being planned by some of our members to show the benefits of upgrading the local skate park, a complete strip down and rebuild of a computer with mentor […]