CQUniversity Australia
 

Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Challenges are as follows:  

    • Trekking in an alien world narrative: Learners create a story about a robot interacting in an alien environment.
    • The Abyss: Young inventors create a robotic machine that can explore places that humans could not physically visit and then present their inventions to the judges.
    • Attenborough Documentary: Learners create a robot creature of some kind and film it as it lives in the wild. It could be a new rare species or it could be a mutation!
    • Mystery: Learners explore all the basic sensors throughout their learning experience and build a basic robotic vehicle with sensors attached to enter the mystery challenge. They do not know which sensor will be called upon.