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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!

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 […]