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Celebrating Science Week

As Redlands has been celebrating Science Week this week, we reflected on the long, academic history of Science Education and community support to develop facilities supporting Science education. We have also reached out to our Alumni to come and share their experience with our students.

Science has been taught at Redlands since its opening in 1884, the first Yr 12 student graduated in Physics in 1887 and the first Science Room was built in 1908 for botanical and geological specimens collected in early field trips.

Since the first Science Room in the original Redlands House on Military Rd, science laboratories have been located in numerous buildings around the School. The Redlands Science program was given the prominence it deserved with the opening of Redlands’ first dedicated Science Block in 1967, originally called the Wyndham Building, refurbished and renamed the Liggins Atrium/Roseby Building in 2007 supported by donations from the Redlands community.

We are very fortunate at Redlands to have a community with a strong tradition of generously giving back to the School. It is through the generosity of previous families that current and future students are able to enjoy today’s Science facilities and resources.

Redlander on Junior Campus

 What a fantastic start to STEAM Week! Redlands was thrilled to welcome back to campus Emile Theau (Redlander 2014) who inspired curiosity among our Year 6 students with a focus on Sustainability, Surfboards, Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Emile is the winner of the HP Generation Impact Incubator and Ocean Impact Organisation Pitchfest 2021. He is the co-founder of Sine Surf, dedicated to reducing waste and emission in the surfing industry by inventing new ways to make sustainable surf products. He is currently working at the University of Sydney in the School of Chemistry as an Engineer on the nanotechnology startup Dewpoint Technologies using cutting edge nanosurfaces to passive cool and harvest dew from the atmophere.

We wish Emile all the best with his exciting endeavours!

Legacy Gift of Class of 2022

Thank you to the members of our community who have already supported our students. The Class of 2022 proudly continues the Legacy of previous Yr 12 cohorts, and have directed their efforts to supporting the Dr Sue Morey AM Appeal.

Their second fundraising initiative for this year is a memorable Year 12 Tea Towel and Tote Bag, featuring students’ and selected staff hand-drawn faces. To pre-order these wonderful gifts and memorabilia, please purchase via this button.

PURCHASE HERE

Congratulations to our Yr 12 students to continue this journey and BIG thank you to Ms Rebecca Mountain (Yr 12 Advisor), Mr Richard Millham (Yr 12 Assistant YA) and other Redlands staff for supporting this wonderful initiative.

Why the Redlands Foundation Scholarship Fund?

This endowment fund provides opportunities to exceptional all-rounder students, who otherwise may not have the financial resources to attend Redlands. Currently, the fund has assets to provide four full-time scholarships, with a long-term goal to grant one means-tested full-time scholarship in the Secondary School annually.

If you wish to make a tax-deductible donation toward the Yr 12 Legacy Gift, contributing to the Dr Sue Morey AM Scholarship, please visit the link below.

DONATE HERE

Thank you sincerely for your contribution!

Mrs Dana Casimaty
Director of Development
dcasimaty@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9858