2019-08-06 S&O Agenda - Item 4 - Attachment 1 - Peregian Digital Hub E-newsletters

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Dear <<First Name>>

The theme for the last month at the Hub has undoubtedly been "learning".

If you'd hidden out in the Co-Lab over the last 4 weeks you may have learned
an advanced visual effects technique from a Hollywood editor; or how to use
the Fusion 360 design tool to create your next invention, from a world class
engineer; or how to optimise your online marketing funnel, from the guy who
does that for Ford.


You may also have learned how to make house music with Ableton Live, from
a top-charting Producer; or how a data scientist does their job from a real-life
practitioner; or how to use the Holochain distributed ledger to change the
world, from the creators of that project.

Over the Easter school holidays, curious young technologists have been
learning how a computer is constructed and how to program the Arduino
micro-controllers, from a young engineering prodigy & his team. This weekend,
50 young students learned how to create a LEGO robot, from the country's
leading school robotics team.

To round things off, I was invited to give the graduation speech to the CQ
University class of 2018 this week and the theme was "learning" - more
specifically, why you need to become a learning machine in the age of