2021-03-09 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                       9 MARCH 2021



 Organisation                            Description of Collaboration

 Sunshine Coast Grammar School           AI Cadetship partner

 Mountain Creek State High School        AI Cadetship partner

Cadetship Program
The Digital Hub’s Cadetship programs offer talented students the opportunity to develop skills in
sought after areas of technology and industry, including AI and Digital Design.
AI Cadetship
The Hub’s AI Cadetship program offers talented mathematics students the opportunity to develop
skills in one of the most sought after areas of technology and industry: programming machine
learning systems.
Machine Learning is a skillset widely used in robotics, medical research, automation, predictive
data analytics, self-driving cars and biotechnology to name a few. This field is particularly suited to
people with an affinity for mathematics and statistics who enjoy the challenge of solving problems
through equations and formulas.
The program aims to inspire cadets to follow this exciting vocational pathway by offering them the
chance to learn and earn. They learn hands-on skills through classes taught by experts and they
get to demonstrate those skills by working on intellectually-challenging projects. They earn through
paid internship opportunities and by teaching others what they’ve learned.
Since its launch in July 2020, over 20 cadets have learnt hands-on skills through classes taught
by experts. Cadets have then used those skills to work on intellectually-challenging projects with
their colleagues. Finally, many of the cadets have gone on to earn money by teaching others
students what they’ve learned in holiday workshops, while others have earned through paid
internship opportunities with hub member companies.
April 2021 will see the launch of the Digital Design cadetship for talented artists in grades 10 & 11.
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.

5.   PARTNERSHIPS & COLLABORATIONS
The Digital Hub continues to grow its network of partnerships which are helping to amplify the
impact and reach of Noosa Council’s investment in the technology sector.

 Organisation                       Description of Collaboration

 TechnologyOne                      Sponsorship of Hub event program in exchange for promotion and
                                    branding exposure.

 Advance Queensland                 Advance Queensland is providing funding support for the FireTech
                                    International Conference to be held in Nov 2020.



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