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A little over two years ago, YWCA Canberra took a big leap in partnership with Richardson Primary School, to open the ACT’s first ever Clubhouse. Based on the global Clubhouse model, which was founded in Boston in 1993, we opened a free, out-of-school learning space that connects young people in Tuggeranong with access to the […]

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 […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: Construction begins on one of the Lego Mindstorm EV3s This term we’re running a series of Tech Time Workshops; an intro to robotics course using Lego Mindstorms EV3s for 8 young women. There are 6 sessions in which the participants are split in to two teams and must design, build […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: Clubhouse Coordinator, Lach, and Aviation Teen Start-Up participants playing and recording music. (Source) Last week I was lucky enough to be a part of the Lighthouse Business Innovation Centre‘s Aviation Teen Start-Up out at the Canberra Airport and Brindabella Park. Aviation Teen Start-Up is an innovation camp for 10 to 18 year […]

By Lach Howarth Featured Image: No Phones – by Clubhouse member, aged 12, from (Phone Source and Sign Source) This past weekend I took on the YWCA Canberra Tech Freeze Challenge, where I gave up all use of phones, computers, tablets and televisions for 48 hours. Before starting I thought that it would be a […]