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No Hands Up
The Barker Institute is already finding itself at the coalface of current educational thinking. One such theory that has reared its head in the media during the last week addresses the age-old teaching strategy of asking students to put their hand up in class, particularly when answering a question. One such article was [...]
Neuroscience and Music Education Forum – Fascinating! Dr Anita Collins.
Thursday afternoon and evening saw two fascinating presentations from Dr Anita Collins, as she shared her extensive knowledge of Neuroscience and Music, examining the connections with learning. Her presentation picked up on the themes presented in her highly acclaimed TedEd talk and video "How playing an instrument benefits your brain" [...]
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“An Incredible Journey”
This presentation is free for all to attend.
Members of both the Barker College and the broader community are welcome to share in this evening with Warwick Holmes.
If you want to study Engineering, Science, have a passion for space travel, robotics, zero robotics, coding and want to hear a fascinating story, this is a presentation not to miss. This is free for the broader community to attend.
Listen to Warwick’s recent interview on the ABC with Richard Glover here. He’ll be sharing this story in his talk on August the 8th at Barker College. The evening will also involve brief presentations from our Robotics teams from 7 pm as a feature before Warwick talks to our community at 7.30pm.
Rosetta Mission Summary:
The Rosetta spacecraft orbited the Sun five times and travelled through the solar system for more than 8 billion km over a period of more than 12 years to complete its mission. Rosetta achieved historical world acclaim as the only interplanetary spacecraft that successfully landed a probe (Philae) and orbited a comet for more than 2 years performing >100,000 scientific measurements.
Warwick Holmes Background
Warwick Holmes was born in Sydney and lived his junior years in Adelaide and Canberra. He graduated from Sydney University with Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degrees and a Masters degree in Technology Management from the University of NSW.
For 29 years Warwick worked in Europe exclusively on the development of European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft including: Scientific, Earth Observation, Telecommunications, Navigation and Manned spacecraft programs. He specialises in spacecraft system engineering, focusing on the verification of hardware and software of complex spacecraft systems.
Warwick was employed as a staff member of the European Space Agency the only Australian to have achieved this position. Working as an avionics system engineer, Warwick worked on seven ESA programs each valued at over A$1 billion. He successfully built, tested and launched ten different spacecraft with ESA with a total mass operating successfully in orbit of over 37 tons.
Warwick was a payload engineer for five launch campaigns from the ESA launch base in French Guiana using the Ariane-3, Ariane-4, Ariane-5 and Soyuz-STB launch vehicles. On the Rosetta project, he was designated the Spacecraft Support Team leader (SST) responsible for giving the final “Go-for-Launch” call from to the Flight Operations Director in Germany, starting the Rosetta mission.
Today he is the Executive Director of Space Engineering at The University of Sydney school of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering.
Please ensure you RSVP to book your seat via this link.
Time
(Tuesday) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Barker College - Leslie Hall
91 Pacific Highway Hornsby