Discover Engineering
Discover Engineering
The Discover Engineering Day program presents an opportunity for student to be exposed to engineering as an industry and as a profession. The day consists of hands on engineering activities, presentations from student and professional engineers. It is a fun an interactive day where students can learn about what a career in engineering is all about.
Student will also be given the opportunity to meet with the engineering faculties from some of the Sydney's big universities and gain a great insight into what their future might hold as an ENGINEER.
9.00am - 2.30pm
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Dietary Requirements if applicable
Cost: $20.00/Student
Discover Engineering Day March 2012
The most recent Discover Engineering Day was held at Caringbah High School on 22 March 2012. The day saw an attendance of over 120 students from surrounding schools including Cronulla High School, Gymea Technology High School, Bethany College and Port Hacking High School.
The new format was used once again and went off without a hitch. To start off with the students were introduced to the world of engineering with a presentation by our careers manager Jenny O'Donovan. Throughout the day the students then saw presentations from both our Student Engineer and Professional Engineer, David Zhao and Andrew Dyer.
When the students were not captivated by our presentations they were given the opportunity to rotate around to a range of different activities that helped them learn more about engineering as a future career path. Activities on the day included an Education hub with ambassadors from University of Sydney, UWS, UNSW, UTS UOW and TAFE NSW, and a search and rescue robot from the University of Technology Sydney. Students also got to try their hand at some engineering of their own by competing in a marshmallow catapult competition and testing their own paper towers . The engineers of the winning paper tower came from Gymea Technology High School. The high light for most of the students on the day was a presentation from a member of the UNSW RoboCup Team. Bread Hall showed the students how the robots work and explained the real life use of this technology.
After all their hard work students were treated to morning tea and lunch provided by Caringbah High School. A big thank you to Caringbah High School for allowing us to use their school venue.
We now look forward to the next Discover Engineering Day.
