2021-10-12 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                      12 OCTOBER 2021


Activities include technical skills and professional skills development, industry speakers, project-
based assignments, excursions to local companies, mentoring, opportunities for local work
experience placements, paid internships, part-time and full-time work, opportunities to teach younger
students via holiday workshops (and earn holiday money), support for university / scholarship
applications.
The two Cadetship streams are:
•        Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (target audience: Grade 9-11 students with advanced
         Maths and/or a keen interest in software programming / engineering). Wednesdays 4-6pm. 1st
         cohort - July 2020 to current. 2nd cohort - May 2021 to current:
         https://www.peregianhub.com.au/cadetship/
•        Digital Design (target audience: Grade 9-11 students with a passion / talent in visual art,
         drawing, illustration, video creation, photography, web design). Tuesdays 4-6pm. 1st cohort -
         May 2021 to current: https://www.peregianhub.com.au/designers/
The Young Inventor Club is for kids aged 8-14 who love learning and building, making, coding, and
tinkering with various technologies. The group has been running at the Hub for 3 years, led by
passionate high school students (including the Hub’s first Cadet, George Gleeson - now in 1st year
at QUT studying Mechatronics Engineering part-time, while working full-time as an Engineering
Cadet at Noosa-based biotech company, Provectus Algae). The club is currently led and coordinated
by the third ‘generation’ of young leaders, two Grade 10 students at Sunshine Beach State High
(Vaughn Scott and Eden Howard). The group meets at the Hub each Thursday during school terms,
4-5.30pm.
Hub School Holiday Program / Workshops
The COVID-19 restrictions have not unduly affected Peregian Digital Hub’s school holiday workshop
attendance, apart from restrictions in workshop numbers for venue and social distancing reasons.
Parent and student interest in the Hub’s holiday workshops is growing.
The Hub’s parent e-newsletter mailing list has more than doubled to 249 in the last 12 months.
Children from across Noosa, Sunshine Coast and further afield (Gympie, Fraser Coast, Moreton
Bay) have attended holiday workshops at the Hub.
Creative in Residence Program
The Hub continues to play a key role in inspiring and enabling digital creative talent in the region
through its residency programs. These have included:
StartSequence - a weekend (11-12 July) of collaborative electronic music production, matching local
vocalists/musicians with local DJs/music producers, each creating a track over the weekend. The
program, mentors, judges and participants were organised and curated by Sunshine Coast Producer
Group with support from the Hub team, and hosted at the Hub.
Creative Residency - Screenwriting and Directing (7-11 September) - visiting Screen industry duo,
Stephen Vagg (writer) and Louise Alston (Director/Producer) provided 13 x 1:1 mentoring sessions,
1 x workshop for local Film/TV students and a guest presentation to Sunshine Coast Screen
Creative’s meetup at the Hub on 7 September.

    Activity                         Date                Audience                          Attendees
                                                                                              (per
                                                                                            session)

    Weekly after-school program:

    Inventors Club                   Thursdays           Mixed - ages 8-14                20

    Girls Gamers (Minecraft)         Saturdays up to     Girls only - 13 and under        25
                                     May 2021


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