Innovation, Entrepreneurialism and Business

Mayor's Telstra Innovation Awards

The Mayor’s Telstra Innovation Awards provide a fantastic opportunity for Year 10-12 students to showcase their skills and bring their creative ideas to life. Students can also connect with industry mentors to develop their entrepreneurial thinking skills. This program equips teams with contemporary experience and teaches students how to make ideas commercial through:

• following lean principles in product development; and
• finding product market fit through design thinking.

Interested students in Years 10-12 are asked to see Mr Wes Warner in the S Block staff room.

Immerse High 2019 Competition

Pacific Lutheran College has been invited to participate in Immerse High 2019, an immersive storytelling competition for high school students. This competition runs for seven weeks during Term 2 and is open to Year 7-12 students on the Sunshine Coast with an interest in Art, Film or other Creative Industries.

The competition has two topics for different age groups:

Senior students (Years 10-12) – ‘Point to Point’, which is directly linked to Noosa's Floating Land Festival theme. Point to Point is an acknowledgement of the two anchor sites for this year’s event (Boreen Point and Noosa National Park), as well as a statement of provocation, asking artists and audiences to consider the way they move through a space and the fact that every journey leaves a mark. Artists are invited and encouraged to propose projects that engage thoughtfully, poetically, politically or provocatively with Point to Point. It is not an idea to be illustrated, but rather a starting point from which a diversity of meanings might emerge.

Middle students (Years 7-9) – Tell a story from the perspective of an animal that lives in the Noosa Biosphere. The audience takes on the perspective of the animal as they interact with the VR/AR work, experiencing the ecosystems and environmental issues encountered by the animal. This could be told from a realistic (literal) point of view or using fantasy elements to tell the story. Entrants must:

• Create an immersive story or experience using VR/AR, aligned to one of the competition themes.
• Make a video of your immersive experience (max 30 seconds).

Mr Wes Warner, Head of Innovation, Entrepreneurialism and Business