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YWCA Canberra Youth Program offers a free school holiday program during each school break, which includes activities at the  Clubhouse  and the Mura Lanyon Youth and Community Centre, as well as excursions around Canberra. This winter, we organised a creative and educational program with a range of engaging activities. During the first week, young people engaged in learning photography […]

In October one of our mentors Lauren delivered a workshop that focused on machine learning and artificial intelligence. By the end of the workshop we were able to teach a computer to recognise our hands and verse the computer in a game of scissors, paper, rock! Many thanks to Lauren and Morgan for coming and […]

National Science Week 2019 with YWCA Canberra This year YWCA Canberra Clubhouse celebrated National Science Week  with a free open day to showcase all we have to offer and to encourage more engagement with Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics, and Music (STEAMM). National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology. Running each […]

On June 5, eight Clubhouse members, who were participants from the What’s Your Reality Program attended an excursion to the ACT Legislative Assembly by invitation from Nicole Lawder MLA for Brindabella. Nicole invited us to tour the Assembly and to hear her make a speech about the impact of our What’s Your Reality Program. What’s […]

Over this past May and June, our Clubhouse members have been engaged in a four week program called ‘Game Design Unplugged’ that was delivered by our new Clubhouse Mentor, Sean and went through the fundamentals of game design.    The first week was an experiential introduction to the importance of rules in determining the success […]

On Monday 15 April, YWCA Canberra Clubhouse launched its Humans of Tuggeranong exhibition at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre, in celebration of 2019 ACT Youth Week. With the support from a 2019 ACT Youth Week grant, the Clubhouse commissioned a young aspiring photographer to co-facilitate the Humans of Tuggeranong photography program and mentor three young people […]

On Tuesday 21 May, and two young Calwell High School students attended the Volunteering and Contact ACT  28th annual 2019 Volunteering Awards for the Canberra region. These two young people, who were representatives of a larger group of ten students, were awarded the ‘Innovation Award’ for our What’s Your Reality Program that ran last year. What’s […]

On Wednesday 15 May, YWCA Canberra Clubhouse members participated in a consultation for a new whole of suburb play spaces review, for Richardson through the ACT Government Better Suburbs Play Spaces Program. A Citizen’s Forum in 2018 allocated $1.9 million to improve play spaces across Canberra. The consultation was an opportunity for us who live […]

To celebrate International Women’s Day this year, YWCA Canberra Clubhouse had the opportunity to bring nine young women to participate in a ‘Scratch for Beginners’ class, hosted by MTP Services. Annie, the Clubhouse Coordinator and Isla, a Clubhouse member also had the opportunity to attend the International Women’s Day Women Leaders in ICT Forum hosted […]

YWCA Canberra Clubhouse together with ACT Parks and Conservation provided a free program titled ‘What’s Your Reality: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds’. The mission was to harness the power of virtual reality (VR) to make Canberra’s natural parks and reserves accessible to all. The Clubhouse engaged ten students in year nine at Calwell High School […]