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Laboratory Technicians from across the state gathered at GSSC this week for a day of professional networking and learning.

Around 30 lab techs were onsite Wednesday to take part in a session led by Yarra Ranges Tech School to learn more about renewable energy and sustainable equipment. This included a demonstration and hands-on-learning activity using sustainable housing kits and equipment donated to GSSC by Yarra Ranges Tech School through a grant. This equipment is currently being used by our Year 10 Physics students who are developing an understanding around energy efficiency in house design, concepts of heat absorption, conduction and reflection and design and modelling using digital simulation.

The demonstration and activity was also provided to our Science teachers as part of staff’s Professional Learning Day held on Thursday.

Many thanks to the Laboratory Technician’s Association of Victoria (LTAV) for making this networking and learning day possible and to Yarra Ranges Tech School for hosting the activities and sharing their skills, knowledge and equipment.

LTAV is a professional association for all laboratory technicians in schools and tertiary institutions in Victoria. The association provides a forum where lab techs from across the state can exchange ideas, find out about new developments and in industry and education, learn new skills and solve practical problems. 

Yarra Ranges Tech School is part of the Victorian Government's commitment to make Victoria the 'Education State'. We introduce teachers to new pedagogies and ways to bring technology into the classroom by emphasising critical Enterprise skills in addition to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) skills required for the 21st century.

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Our Bradford Pathway Program participants were yesterday provided an opportunity to meet Roger and Lesley Gillespie, whose generous funding through their family foundation has brought this program to life.
 
The Bradford Shepparton Program provides support to Year 11 students from term four, and throughout Year 12, through a fortnightly mentor program with current La Trobe University students and staff. In addition to this, students are provided an intensive introduction day to university, access to wellbeing and parent engagement workshops and academic capacity building activities.
 
Students enrolled in the program receive an early conditional place to La Trobe University and access to a pool of financial support where necessary, with the aim to inspire, inform and encourage participants to consider higher education.
 
The program was introduced in 2019 based on census data, which showed higher education participation rates for people aged 19-21 are at 13 per cent in Shepparton, compared with 50 and 35 per cent in Melbourne and Australia respectively.
 
The program was set-up following the success of a similar program run at La Trobe’s Albury-Wodonga campus, which saw a 44 per cent increase in student enrolment from 2018 to 2019 from participating schools. The programs being delivered in Albury/Wodonga and Shepparton are aimed improve educational pathways and life opportunities for young people in regional Victoria and to ensure that regardless of your background, or the town in which you grew up, university is attainable for everyone.
 
Funding from the Gillespie Family Foundation helped to launch the Bradford Shepparton Pathway Program – named after the late Audrey May Gillespie (nee Bradford), mother of La Trobe alumnus and Bakers Delight co-founder Roger Gillespie.
 
Roger and Lesley yesterday spoke with the current Bradford participants about the program and the opportunities it provides students to follow their dreams and be successful in their own right. The Gillespie family presented the students with Bradford program hoodies, while the students were able to chat to and thank Roger and Lesley for their ongoing support.
 
Read more about the program here: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2019/release/regional-education-pathway-launched