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■ Bundoora Secondary College opened Australia's first Virtual Reality Innovation Centre on campus on Monday (Mar. 7). High school teachers from across Melbourne were able to learn about results and potential of virtual reality for student collaboration, education and career pathway planning. The teachers had the opportunity to try a range of virtual STEAM career scenarios such as performing open-heart surgery, scuba diving and studying the oceans, composing music, dissecting a frog in a lab, even experiencing life as an astronaut on an International Space Station.
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The Centre has a number of specific purposes including: ■ Student collaboration centre ■ A place where students (both from BSC and other schools) and other collaborators, such as subject matter experts and academics, can bring new ideas and work with Mindflight7 on new VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality) and MR (mixed reality) content. The Professional Development Centre will be qaplace for education and career professionals to learn about VR, AR and MR (mixed reality) and their use and emergence in education, training and business / commerce.
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● Northcote MLA Kat Theophanous, Yarra Trams CEO Julien Dehornoy and Public Transport Minster Ben Carroll. ■ A final tranche of upgrades to the A and Z pipeline of secure jobs to ensure we attract the Class trams us underway at Yarra Trams new best design, engineering and manufacturing talent. Preston Depot. “We are breathing new life into our oldest From May, work will begin on the State Government’s final tranche of upgrades to the trams to keep them running safely and reliably and supporting local jobs with the new Preston A and Z Class trams. The $64.5 million program is being deliv- Depot given the green light to continue works on ered through the 2021-22 State Budget over three our iconic fleet.” Julien Dehornoy, Yarra Trams CEO, said: years, and the Department of Transport cently “We’ve completed the first year of the A and Z awarded the contract to Yarra Trams. The four-year program aims to refurbish a Class Life Extension program, and we are gearing up to deliver another three years of upgrades total of 156 trams. The A and Z Class trams make up a third of so we can rely on these trams to keep Victorithe network and have been doing their bit for ans moving until they are gradually retired.” Upcoming works include upgrading door decades, travelling millions of kilometres over that time to take people where they need to go. safety controls; new high speed circuit breakers Kat Theophanous, Northcote MLA, said: for tram electrical protection, and installation of “Public transport is an important and iconic part new event recorders to provide more informaof our community in the inner north - this pro- tion for investigations of incidents such as colligram of works to upgrade our older trams is just sions. In the first year of the program, 25 Austraanother way we are delivering a modern, safer and more reliable journey all while supporting lian companies supplied parts and more than 70 full time equivalent jobs were supported during local jobs and industry.” Ben Carroll, Public Transport Minister, said: the peak of works, with similar economic ben“We’re growing Victoria’s world-class train and efits expected to flow during the remainder of tram manufacturing industry – with an ongoing the program.
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