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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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Hundreds prepare for Opti-MINDS challenge in Rockhampton 

Published on 20 August, 2009 

Hundreds of primary and secondary school children from 14 regional communities will converge on CQUniversity Rockhampton Campus on Saturday (August 29) for this year's Opti-MINDS Creative Sustainability Challenge.

Participants and their teachers and supporters are coming from as far as Tannum Sands in the south, Barcaldine in the west and The Caves in the north.

While there will be a 'Spontaneous Challenge' which is not possible to prepare for, the teams are already planning how to create a picture book, how to design and model an environmentally-friendly house and how to create ideas to make Queensland great again after a hypothetical slump.

Winners will represent their region at the State finals in Brisbane over October 17-18.

CQUniversity is the host and sponsor for this challenge, which also has support from Latronics, the University of Queensland, BHP Billiton, Hail Creek Mine and Rockhampton Girls' Grammar School.

Opti-MINDS is being held in conjunction with CQUniversity's Rockhampton Campus Open Day.

More details are available via http://www.opti-minds.com/ OR LINK HERE to find out more about Opti-MINDS

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About Opti-MINDS:

Opti-MINDS is a process of PREVENTION - rather than a damage control; it instils a PROACTIVE mindset of:

    • Capability - 'Can Do!'
    • Responsibility - 'If not me - then who?'
    • Creativity & Innovation; &
    • Unashamed EXCELLENCE,

within participants; encouraging them to REALISE their own capacity and responsibility to ‘MAKE the DIFFERENCE' for themselves - and to come from an "IF NOT, WHY NOT?" stance.