Innovation programs for youth

A key initiative in the Regional Economic Development Strategy is to become a top 10 regional knowledge and innovation hub. 

Investment in youth innovation and entrepreneurship will have a significant economic impact and support business growth in the region by developing pride, creating aspirations, and delivering on Council’s broader regional prosperity objectives within our growing communities and economy.  

Programs 

Mayor's Telstra Innovation Awards

An exciting awards program designed exclusively for students in years 9-12 to encourage a passion for entrepreneurship and bring their big ideas to life.

Techstars Startup Weekend

Budding Entrepreneurs with big ideas work together to turn their start-up ideas into reality.

GovHack

An annual event for forward-thinking people of all abilities challenging them to take their hand at making productive use of the wealth of open data available to us in everyday life.

My Future in Moreton Bay

Virtual experience programs to build specific skills and knowledge to help access to job opportunities and contribute to a vibrant region.

Create your future job program

Creating Your Future Job is a free seven-week training program to help disengaged students start their own business.

Borrow a Blue-Bot

Introducing children to programming and encourage sequential thinking.

STEAM Stations

Introducing design thinking and engineering skills through hands on discovery after school.

LEGO Engineers Club

A building challenge to help primary school children develop design thinking and engineering skills.

Past programs

Teacher professional development coding and robotics workshop 2022

This workshop provided local teachers the chance to get hands-on experience to up-skill in STEM Education and creating a collaborative network of teachers across both private and public schools in the region.

The program also provided:

  • an in-depth insight into how teachers can access coding and robotics hardware as well as how to incorporate this technology into their own course curriculum.
  • aided them in developing their skills to create further opportunities for youth innovation and entrepreneurship
  • provided understanding of teaching tools and methodologies to support the development of new programs related to coding and robotics.
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