Year 9
Ethical Explorations Day
The Ethical Exploration Day is an opportunity for like-minded Year 9 and 10 students from schools across Sydney to get together and discuss ethical issues relevant to their world. On Wednesday this week a number of Yr 9 students, accompanied by Dr Poon and Mr Millham, participated in this forum.
Reflection by: Molly Ashcroft, Georgia Cavric and Ruby Gasmus
The Ethical Explorations Day at Rosebank College on Wednesday was a wonderful and exciting opportunity to take part in. The day started off with an enlightening guest speaker named Dr Soofi who spoke about the key concepts and implications of bioethics. We then had a member of the Terra Symposium talk to us about how to approach ethical dilemmas. After a quick break, we were split up into breakout rooms with around two members of each school to practise these new concepts we had been learning about. My group spoke about memory erasing drugs, and Molly and Georgia’s group spoke about external pregnancies and artificial wombs. After a lunch break, we had a large discussion with everyone from all schools about navigating a theoretical epidemic. This was very interesting as we were asked to evaluate how our decisions would make an impact. After managing to contain a quickly spreading epidemic, we said our thank yous and the day was over. This day was beneficial because of multiple reasons, including getting the opportunity to socialise with other Redlands students from senior years, as well as getting to hear the perspectives and points of view from students of other schools. Overall, the three of us are very grateful for the opportunity to attend this insightful event.
StartUp Bootcamp Extra-curricular (Years 7-11)
Do you have a business idea that you’d like to explore? Are you curious about entrepreneurship? We have the perfect extra-curricular opportunity for you in Term 3!
StartUp Bootcamp: Idea to Impact. Wednesday afternoons 3:30-5:30pm
This is an introduction to innovation and entrepreneurship with a learn-by-doing approach. This exciting new extra-curricular program is open to students in Years 7-11 wanting to experience “startup life”. Anyone can join, not just students with existing entrepreneurial projects or ideas.
We’ve partnered with Macquarie University Incubator to bring you a team of Experts in Residence each week, you’ll also hear from guest speakers in the startup ecosystem and be well supported as you explore innovative new ideas and even turn one into a venture!
Whether or not you plan on becoming an entrepreneur, the transferable skills, bias towards action, resilience and creative confidence you’ll build though this program will help you excel in every aspect of school, work and life.
Find out more here but hurry, there are only 30 places available in this intake!
Start Here, Start Up.
SEED Program
We have a fabulous opportunity for students to take part in an initiative with Taronga Zoo and Future Anything.
The catch is, the afternoon sessions are on a Thursday, so if you have Sport training then you won’t be able to participate. Please check your Term 3 schedule.
The SEED Program is a collaborative learning project for Years 8 and 9 students, in partnership with Taronga Conservation Society and Future Anything. It is an innovative social enterprise initiative that empowers students to develop enterprising skills while addressing real-world environmental and social issues.
Over the course of approximately 30 hours spanning 16 weeks, students will move through an immersive design thinking process, collaborating with others to creatively solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Culminating in a showcase event held at Taronga Zoo, participants will be able to share their ideas for the chance to win exciting prizes.
Key dates:
- SEED Launch day – Thursday 1 August
- Fortnightly workshops – Thursdays 3.30pm-5pm
- Twilight Finals event – Thursday 7 November
Please let Ms Green know if you are interested, egreen@redlands.nsw.edu.au
Mr Tobias Horan
Yr 9 Advisor
9968 9872
thoran@redlands.nsw.edu.au