[Image of high school students walking into Generation STEM showcase event at Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney]
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[Image changes to Mary Mulcahy, Director, CSIRO Education and Outreach, speaking to camera]
The STEM Community Partnerships Program allows students to come up with an idea or a challenge that they've either identified themselves or that industry or local government has identified as a challenge for the future.
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They then get an opportunity to investigate that and follow their own enquiry process to come up with a solution for it.
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They also build resilience, they learn about teamwork, they learn about communication.
They learn about getting on with each other and coming up with an answer to a problem and having a product at the end.
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Our project is an aeroponic desalinator, which works to challenge the water crisis and also we're thinking of combining it with our hydroelectric machine that was created by our other classmates to generate a system that was both sustainable with water and energy.
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Before we started this project, we thought of science as a pretty one-way path but we found out there were a lot of different branches and a lot of different people and a lot of different types of sciences worked together to make a lot of different types of projects.
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I'm definitely considering something to do with science in the future, in my career path.
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What it means for Liverpool Council having this particular STEM project in the area is we're giving kids an opportunity to experiment with science and maths.
The future jobs that are out there - we don't know what they are, some of them - and so these sort of skills will be needed.
[Image changes to people watching a presentation as Ron Moore, General Manager, Camden Council, starts his voiceover]
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[Image changes to Ron Moore, General Manager, Camden Council, speaking to camera]
Broadly, the thing that has impressed me most amongst the students is the practical nature of the challenge and the innovative way they've approached the solutions.
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Both water cleanliness and food security and food production are critical things for the Camden local government area, which is one of the fastest growing local government areas in Australia.
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There were actually two projects that I looked at tonight from local students in Camden, where they actually looked at the problem in a very different way and what impressed me was that they basically looked outside the limits and what they can do to resolve the water and drought issue in Australia.
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[Image of students explaining their projects to people as Katherine Hannaford, Teacher and School Learning Innovator from Macquarie Fields High School begins her voiceover]
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I've been really enjoying seeing all the schools' projects today. I really am so impressed by the diversity of projects from all the different schools. Also, of course, I love what my students were able to create.
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They were so excited when they were being asked by councillors deeper questions and they would say: "Oh, I really like that. You explain more about it - I want to take it and show it to my council."
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Because all of a sudden, what they had created in classroom had become a real thing that could actually benefit our community.
[Image changes to Kritika Kharel, Student, Macquarie Fields High School, speaking to camera]
We had a scenario and we really wanted to do something about energy, so we decided to use grey water in the house and create hydro-electricity for the entire household. It's very efficient and cheap and good for the environment as well.
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I really like doing group work and collaborating with my team members and I also like learning new things about hydro-electricity and all these different scenarios and things to improve in Campbelltown.
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[Image changes to Margaret Chivers, Campbelltown City Council, speaking to students as her voiceover begins]
What excited me about tonight was talking to the students and they were talking about STEM from their heart and not just their brains.
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The fact that when I asked them questions they gave me an answer that was STEM-based but then, when I probed, they talked about passion, they talked about vision and they talked about opportunity.
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[Image changes to wording on screen. “Generation STEM is managed by CSIRO and made possible by an endowment from the NSW Government to the Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF).” SIEF and NSW Government logso appear. Final image displays web address www.csiro.au/generationstem]
