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NBSC Manly Campus

NBSC Manly Campus

The selective campus of Northern Beaches Secondary College

Telephone02 9905 3982

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CSIRO partnership

An exciting new partnership in learning started recently with CSIRO. 

Thanks to Manly Selective parents John Kraft and Bill Hawkings, contact was made with the CSIRO last year to determine ways in which they could support our students.  Since then, we have worked with CSIRO Education and Outreach Manager, Mr Darren Vogrig, who coordinated teams of staff from across the organisation to work with our year 10 Independent Learning Project (ILP) students and staff.

In this first stage of the program Mr James Crowther and his team from the Innovation and Entrepreneurship program of the CSIRO spoke to our students about innovation, entrepreneurship and the development of a business model, each of these being key elements of student's planning for their ILP research and planning. As part of the presentation, students were presented with a risk-taking scenario and game designed to start them thinking about how to go about their projects. Adam Busselmann won this game and his prize included the opportunity to visit the CSIRO to present his ILP pitch in the Accelerator Room to other innovators who may then support Adam through his project.  (Adam is pictured above with James Crowther and Darren Vogrig from the CSIRO .)

This was the first of five sessions planned for this part of the program and we are very much looking forward to furthering this partnership.