Over the course of one action-packed day, an aspiring group of our Year 6-8 Honours students heard from community changemakers, developed their leadership and innovation skills with hands-on activities, and explored what initiatives they can launch to make change in their local community, as they met other aspiring Generation Z and Generation Alpha young leaders from schools across the Gold Coast.

By utilising the principles of design thinking, our Honours students, Catey Brookes, Alyssa Fu, Ivy Hamilton, Calvin Liu, Maxim Nadezhdin, Aarya Rudrawar, Sriram Sahishnu, Jinyu Yan and Peter Zhu, embarked on a series of activities that enabled them to develop deep understanding of the challenges facing diverse communities worldwide.

Throughout the day, students worked through a fast-paced design sprint as they formed teams, identified a problem to solve, researched solutions around the world, and created an impactful solution localised to their community and their users. At the conclusion of the program students pitched their finalised ideas.

Catherine Riddle | Head of Academic Academy