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: 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 […]
Stir is an online platform that helps people form their ideas into reality through crowd voted micro-grants. While only relatively new, in its first year the platform saw 45 uploads of different ideas and awarded fifteen $1000 grants. Two of these projects progressed to win a total of $20,000 in ANU’s start-up program InnovationACT. This […]
Dr Sarah Pearson has had a fascinating career understanding the universe, meddling with confectionary, solving cancer and consulting to business. She is passionate about science and innovation, and now leads the Canberra Innovation Network. Clubhouse volunteer, Emily, spoke with her to find out about how science led her on this path, and how physics is linked to chocolate.
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 […]
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, […]